ESPAS Annual Conference 2017, Brussels - Main contents
| date | November 22, 2017 - November 23, 2017 |
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| city | Brussels, Belgium |
| location | Berlaymont building (BERL) i  |
| organisation | European Political Strategy Centre (EPSC) i |
ESPAS Annual Conference 2017
22 November 2017 to 23 November 2017
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Global Trends to 2030:
The Making of a New Geopolitical Order?
22-23 November 2017
This landmark conference brought together a select community of global foresight practitioners and strategists to explore the latest and most pressing trends shaping geopolitics in the coming decade.
Together, we attempted to shed light on pressing issues such as the future of multilateralism, new challenges to Europe’s security outlook, and how governments and international institutions can thrive in an increasingly uncertain and volatile world.
The rolling programme of the conference covered two-days. The first day was hosted by the European Political Strategy Centre, the European Commission's in-house think tank, at its headquarters, the Berlaymont. The second day took place in the library of the European Parliament and was hosted by the European Parliamentary Research Service, the Parliament’s own think tank.
On ESPAS
The European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS) is an inter-institutional collaboration among the officials of the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Council of the EU, and the European External Action Service, with the support of the Committee of the Regions and of the European Economic and Social Committee, which monitors global trends and offers strategic foresight to the EU's decision-makers.
The Annual Conference is part of a three-year cycle which draws on the insights of the ESPAS report Global Trends to 2030: Can the EU Meet the Challenges Ahead?
Publications
'Global Trends to 2035' Geo-politics and international power
ESPAS Young Talent Network - Membership (PDF)
See also the 2016 Annual Conference documents.
Videos*
Day 1
Day 2
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*Disclaimer: These videos were prepared in the context of the European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS) 2017 Annual Conference 'Global Trends to 2030: The Making of a New Geopolitical Order?'.
The views expressed in these videos represent only the views of the participants. These videos do not bind, nor may be attributed to, any of the European Union institutions and bodies participating in ESPAS, namely the European Commission, the European Parliament (EP), the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU (GSC) and the European External Action Service (EEAS), as well as the Committee of the Regions and the European Economic and Social Committee.
Speakers:
Aaron
Maniam
World Economic Forum Young Global Leader
Alexander
Stubb
Vice-President, European Investment Bank
Angela
Wilkinson
Senior Director of Scenarios and Business Insights, World Energy Council; Author of 'Strategic Reframing'
Ann
Mettler
Head, European Political Strategy Centre
Benoni
Belli
Director of Policy Planning, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Brazil
Carl
Bildt
Chair, Global Commission on Internet Governance, former Swedish Prime-Minister
Catarina
Tully
Director, FromOverHere and Founder of the School of International Futures
Christian
Leffler
Deputy Secretary-General, European External Action Service
Christian
Strohal
Special Representative for the Austrian 2017 OSCE Chairmanship
Daniel
Gros
Director, Centre for European Policy Studies
Dmitri
Trenin
Director, Moscow Carnegie Centre, Russia
Duncan
Cass-Beggs
Counsellor for Strategic Foresight, OECD
Eva
Kaili
Member of the European Parliament
Florence
Gaub
Deputy Director, European Union Institute for Security Studies
Guntram
Wolff
Director, Bruegel
Hadeel
Ibrahim
Founding Executive Director, Mo Ibrahim Foundation
Heather
Grabbe
Director, Open Society European Policy Institute, Open Society Foundations
James
Elles
Honorary President of ESPAS, MEP 1984-2014
Jason
Blackstock
Head of Department, Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy, University College London
Jeanette
Kwek
Deputy Head, Centre for Strategic Futures & Assistant Director (Strategic Planning & Futures), Strategy Group
Jim
Cloos
Deputy Director-General, Council of the European Union
Jiří
Buriánek
Secretary-General, European Committee of the Regions
Johannes
Hahn
Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy & Enlargement Negotiations, European Commission
Jon
Finer
Chief of Staff and Director of Policy Planning, US Department of State (2015-2017)
Justin
Vaïsse
Director of Policy Planning, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Katarzyna
Zysk
Professor & Director of Research, Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, Norwegian Defence University College
Klaus
Welle
Secretary-General, European Parliament
Kristin
Shi-Kupfer
Director of Politics, Society and Media Research Area, Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS)
Lotte
Leicht
EU Director, Human Rights Watch
Luca
Jahier
President Group III, European Economic and Social Committee
Luis
Planas
Secretary-General, European Economic and Social Committee
Marietje
Schaake
Member of the European Parliament
Mary
Kaldor
Professor of Global Governance; Director, Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, London School of Economics
Parag
Khanna
Senior Fellow, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore
Paweł
Świeboda
Deputy Head, European Political Strategy Centre
Puruesh
Chaudhary
Founder, Foresight Lab, Pakistan
Ramón Luis
Valcárcel Siso
Vice-President of the European Parliament
Rob
Wainwright
Director, Europol
Rob
Leslie
Founder & CEO, Sedicii Innovations; co-founder, Kyckr
Sabrina
Schulz
Head, Berlin office, E3G - Third Generation Environmentalism
Shada
Islam
Director of Europe and Geopolitics, Friends of Europe
Shulong
Chu
Professor of Political Science and International Relations, School of Public Policy and Management, China
Simon
Serfaty
Brzezinski Chair (emeritus) in Global Security and Geostrategy, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Stefanie
Babst
Head, Strategic Analysis Capability for the NATO Secretary General and Chairman of the NATO Military Committee
Sylvia
Hartleif
Team Leader, Foreign Policy Team, European Political Strategy Centre
Tarek
Osman
Author and political counsellor for the Arab World, European Bank for Reconstruction & Development
Tomáš
Valášek
Director, Carnegie Europe
Ulrich
Schulte-Strathaus
Aviation Industry Expert
Wolfgang
Ischinger
Chairman, Munich Security Conference
Wolfgang
Wosolsobe
General (ret.), former Director General of the EU Military Staff
The European Political Strategy Centre (EPSC) reports directly to the President and operates under his authority. It is composed of a professional staff of advisers, policy analysts and support staff with appropriate experience and track record, in order to provide professional and targeted policy advice to the President and the College.
EPSC provides strategic analysis and policy advice for the President on matters related to the policy priorities (as defined by the President in his political guidelines presented to the European parliament on July 15 2014), and outreach to decision-makers, think tanks and civil society at large.
The EPSC provides support to the President also on concrete initiatives, as well as policy advice of more long-term nature.