The Advisory Board represents different types of stakeholders: policy makers, members of the academia and civil society. It is in charge of monitoring the online activities of the project, joining the project in crucial activities (e.g. in conferences) and writing an Evaluation Report that will be presented in the General Assembly. The board will schedule online meetings twice a year to coordinate the evaluation and advisory work. The Coordinator will be its main contact within the project.
Members:
László Andor is a Hungarian economist and former EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion (2010-2014). He is the General Secretary of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies, a Senior Fellow at Hertie School of Governance (Berlin), and visiting professor at ULB (Brussels), and joined various think tanks in an advisory capacity (EPC, RAND Europe, Friends of Europe).
Didier Georgakakis is a Professor of political science at University Paris1 – Panthéon Sorbonne, while also serving as the Academic Coordinator of the European General Studies programme and a visiting professor at the College of Europe (Bruges campus).
Amie Kreppel is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Florida, where she is a Jean Monnet Chair (ad personam) and the founding Director of the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence (JMCE) (2007- present). Dr. Kreppel is a founding member of the transatlantic European Parliament Research Group (EPRG) and was a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC.
Her research interest are Comparative Politics, European Politics, the European Union, Political institutions and Legislatures. Dr. Kreppel has written extensively on the political institutions of Europe in general and the European Union and Italy more specifically.
Mikhail Minakov is a political philosopher living in Kyiv and Milan. Since 2018, he is the Kennan Institute’s Senior Advisor on Ukraine and Editor-in-Chief of Focus Ukraine, Kennan Institute’s Ukraine-focused blog by the Wilson Center for International Scholars. He earned his Master of Arts degree in Philosophy from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and his PhD at Kyiv Institute of Philosophy.
For 18 years he taught at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Ukraine). His work ist is dedicated to political modernization in Eastern Europe, theories and practices of revolutions, political imagination and ideologies.
Vivien A. Schmidt is Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Professor of International Relations in the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Professor of Political Science at Boston University, as well as Founding Director of BU’s Center for the Study of Europe. She received her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College and her Masters and PhD from the University of Chicago and attended Sciences Po in Paris.
Her research focuses on European political economy and institutions, on democracy and the challenges of populism in the US and Europe, and on the importance of ideas and discourse in political analysis (discursive institutionalism).
Linn Selle is the President of the European Movement Germany. After graduating from the University of Bonn and Sciences Po with a bachelor’s degree in political science, Selle completed a master’s degree in European studies at the European University Viadrina.
Since June 2021, Selle has held the position of Head of the European Affairs Department at the Representation of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia to the Federal Government. Her areas of expertise are European democracy and parliamentarianism and transparent EU legislation.