Paolo Gentiloni, Commissioner for Economy, European Commission Paolo Gentiloni is the European Commissioner for Economy since December 2019.
He served as Prime Minister of Italy (2016- 2018), Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (2014-2016), Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (2013-2014) and Minister of Communications (2006-2008).
Previously he was Spokesperson for the Margherita Party (2002-2007), Chairman of the Broadcasting Services Watchdog Committee (2005-2006), Spokesperson for the Mayor of Rome and Commissioner in the City of Rome (1993-2000). Previously he worked as a professional journalist.
Born in 1954, Gentiloni graduated in Political Sciences from La Sapienza, Rome.
His last book is “La sfida impopulista” (the (Un)populist challenge).
Clotilde Armand, MEP, Committee on Budgets, European Parliament Bio will appear here shortly.
Olaf Koch, Chairman of the Management Board, METRO AG Olaf Koch has been Chairman of the Management Board of METRO AG since 2 March 2017 and has been appointed until 1 March 2022.
From 1 January 2012 to 12 July 2017, Mr Koch was Chief Executive Officer and from 14 September 2009 until the end of 2011, member of the Management Board (CFO) of the former METRO AG (now CECONOMY AG). He previously worked for the financial investor Permira. His career began in 1994 with a degree in business administration at Daimler-Benz AG. Between 2002 and 2007 he was a member of the executive board of the Mercedes Car Group.
Luca Visentini , General Secretary, ETUC Luca Visentini was re-elected ETUC General Secretary at the 14th Congress in Vienna in 2019, having already served four years as General Secretary, and before that four years as ETUC Confederal Secretary. As General Secretary, Luca is responsible for guiding and coordinating ETUC policy. This includes high-level meetings with EU and national leaders, EU institutions and social partner organisations, representing the ETUC in international and European fora and affiliates’ initiatives, coordinating relations with affiliates and supervising the ETUC’s budget and human resources. Luca has taken part in negotiations on the European Pillar of Social Rights, the future of Europe, relaunching European social dialogue, public investment, economic governance, EU legislation and many other issues of importance to European workers. Luca Visentini has been active in the trade union movement since 1989, with experience in collective bargaining at confederation, national and sectoral level. He worked for Italian union UIL, from 1996 as General Secretary in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region of Italy and as a member of the UIL steering and executive committees.
Joe Lynam, Presenter, BBC Joe Lynam is a respected broadcaster and moderator who was the BBC’s senior Business Correspondent for a decade. He now presents the current affairs show ‘The Newsroom’ on the BBC World Service.
Joe has won many awards for his original journalism including the 2018 Headline Money Award for his BBC One exposé of how RBS (GRG) treated many of its own business customers. Joe was also the first to broadcast on Radio 4 a phone fraud (Vishing) in almost real time as an elderly lady unwittingly handed over her life savings to fraudsters. For that, he won the Wincott prize for Journalism in 2016.
Joe has travelled the world with the BBC covering the financial crisis (2007-2010), followed by the Eurozone crisis (2010-2013) and more recently the economic and political fallout from the Brexit referendum.
He has presented on the Today programme, Newsnight, BBC One Breakfast as well as Five Live and the BBC News Channel.
Joe took a mini career break to tackle the scourge of Disinformation. He learned the methods used by local and foreign ‘bad actors’ in spreading deliberately false information – known to some as ‘fake news’. He co-authored the Action Plan against Disinformation.
The current pandemic has confronted Europe with the risk of a considerable economic downturn.
This real and present danger has led many to argue for a coordinated and substantial recovery package, that will allow EU member states, companies and citizens to weather the storm.
But the debate has become polarized and agreement on the size, type and financing of that package remains elusive. Nevertheless, unless the EU acts in a coordinated manner and is able to respond decisively to the challenge ahead, the consequences can be dire for all.
With a variety of proposals on the table, this event explored what might be the best way to ensure that the EU’s response is proportional to the current crisis and appropriate for the circumstances EU member states face.
It brought together EU institutions, member states and stakeholders in an effort to find common ground so the EU is able to rise to the occasion and put in place the necessary measures to shield itself from the economic downturn and build the foundations for financial, fiscal and monetary stability in the years to come.
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Sponsor METRO is a leading international wholesale company with food and non-food assortments that specialises on serving the needs of hotels, restaurants and caterers (HoReCa) as well as independent traders. Around the world, METRO has some 24 million customers who can choose whether to shop in one of the large-format stores, order online and collect their purchases at the store or have them delivered.
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