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Nicholas Bacon
Professor Bacon teaches Human Resource Management at the Nottingham University Business school and is editor of the Industrial Relations Journal. Professor Bacon's research focuses on Trade Unions; Teamworking; HRM in buyouts; HRM in SMEs; Shareholder Value and HRM; Collective Bargaining, and; Partnership Agreements.
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Brian Bercusson
Professor Bercusson was appointed to a newly-created Chair in European Social and Labour Law at King’s College in September 2000. Professor Bercusson’s research focuses on transnational labour regulation, in particular, in the European Union (EU), and its impact on domestic labour laws, in particular, British labour law.
Brian Bercusson obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge and was elected Research Fellow of Christ’s College in 1974. He taught at Queen Mary College from 1978. He was Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence in 1983-1984 and was appointed Professor in the Department of Law at the EUI in 1986. In Italy, he was also visiting professor at the University of Siena, 1991-1994. He returned to take up the Chair in European Law at the University of Manchester in 1994.
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Hans- Jürgen Bieling
Hans-Jürgen Bieling is a professor at the Department of Political Science at the Phillips-Universität Marburg.
From 1999-2002, he has been working in a DFG funded project on ‘Wirtschaftsverfassung, Policy-Framing und Regime-Konkurrenz. As of 2002, he has been chairing the research programme on European Community (FEG) at the Department of Political Science. His focus in research and teaching is on European Integration, International Political Economy and state theory.
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Joan Bloemarts
Joan Bloemarts is labour and company law adviser of the Netherlands Trade Union Confederation FNV.
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Ieke van den Burg
Ieke van den Burg (1952) has held a seat in the European Parliament since 1999. She is also a member to (and coordinator of) the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, and a deputy member to the Committee on Internal Markets and Consumer Protection.
Ieke has been a protagonist for trade unions, the women’s and social movement since the seventies. This passion for unionism, and a vibrant social network dating back to her role as federal governor to the FNV federation, have accompanied her to Europe. In the European Parliament she is a determining actor on social-economic issues.
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Javier Echarri
Javier Echarri (1964) is currently the Secretary General of EVCA, the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association. He joined EVCA in the beginning of 1999.
Previously and since 1995 he was with BBVA Benelux as Institutional Banking Director in charge of EU institutions. Until then Javier was the Secretary General of the Spanish Chamber of Commerce for the Benelux for over 3 years. Previously he has held positions at the Spanish Machine Tools Industry Association and at the Grupo Mondragon.
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Ewald Engelen
Ewald Engelen is currently a researcher at the Space and Economy Research group at the University of Amsterdam. His main focus is: Corporate Governance; Pension Fund Restructuring; Financial Markets; Migration; Economic Incorporation
Dr. Engelen holds a Bachelors of Journalism (1987), a Masters of Philosophy (1994) ‘Cum laude’ , and; a Ph.D. of Political and Social Philosophy (2000) ‘Cum laude’. He has been a member of the Dutch Research School of Practical Philosophy, 1994-2003, and a member of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, 1999-2003.
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Julie Froud
Julie Froud is Professor at the Manchester Business School, Subject Area Group: Accounting & Finance.
Julie's research interests fall within the broad heading of the relationship between accounting and business and public policy, including how accounting information can be used to investigate social and business phenomena. Current/ongoing areas of research include: Accounting and changes in the boundary between public and private sectors, especially the Private Finance Initiative (PFI); Analysis of business and sectoral activities, including the problems of producing and maintaining shareholder value and the implications of e-commerce for the ability of the corporate sector as a whole to meet rate of return criteria; The use of national income accounts to assess the changing nature of the UK economy and the relationship between government, corporate and household sectors; household expenditure on motoring, including UK-French comparisons.
Julie is also one of the joint editors of Competition & Change.
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Howard Gospel
Professor Gospel has held previous positions at Cambridge, Kent, London School of Economics, and Oxford Universities. At present he is also a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, and a Fellow of the Said Business School, University of Oxford. He has also taught and been a visiting professor in the US, Germany, France, and Japan. His recent research has focussed on managerial labour strategy, employee voice arrangements, training and development, the growth of large firms, and corporate governance and labour. He studies these in historical and comparative perspective, with a particular interest in the UK, US, Germany, France, and Japan. He has published extensively in these areas.
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Peter Gortzak
Peter Gortzak (1958) is vice-chairman of the FNV. Also, he functions as the general secretary to the board and takes responsibility for the FNV society and the labour organization.
Peter Gortzak was a governor at the ABVAKABO FNV from 1988 to 1993. In 1993 he became a member of the executive of the Dutch Police association. In 2000 he chose to work for the executive of the FNV. Policy- issues belonging to Peter Gortzak’s portfolio are: pensions, life development, workers participation and labour law.
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John Grahl
John Grahl a distinguished academic and professor of Human Resources Management at Middlesex University. He is a member of European Economists for an Alternative Economic Policy in Europe and author of 'European Monetary Union: Problems of Legitimacy, Development and Stability' (Kogan Page, London, 2001), and more famously 'After Maastricht: a Guide to European Monetary Union' (Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1997). He has published numerous articles on economics, including in the established left wing journal 'New Left Review' and in the French monthly publication 'Le Monde Diplomatique'. Previously John has been a lecturer at Queen Mary and Westfield College, and London Metropolitan University.
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Stefanie Hiß
Stefanie Hiß is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the research training group "Markets and Social Systems in Europe", University of Bamberg/ Germany. She holds a PhD in Sociology and Masters in Politics and Economics.
In her PhD she dealt with Corporate Social Responsibility and the question why corporations act socially responsible. During this time she also worked as Professional Assistant for Social Standards in the GTZ. Stefanie’s ongoing research includes the public discourse about financial market risks and the effects of SME-ratings in Germany.
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Jeppe F. Jörgensen
Jeppe F. Jörgensen is a PhD student at the "Graduate School of Modern Governance" of the University of Potsdam. In addition, he teaches
at the Humboldt University, Berlin and at the Berlin School of Economics.
From August 2006 to March 2007, Jeppe was a member of the "Expert Group on Private Equity Funds and Hedge Funds" of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament. From 2003 he furthermore worked first as a project manager and then - from 2005 to 2006 - as a member of the board of directors of the think-
tank BerlinPolis.
at the Humboldt University, Berlin and at the Berlin School of Economics.
From August 2006 to March 2007, Jeppe was a member of the "Expert Group on Private Equity Funds and Hedge Funds" of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament. From 2003 he furthermore worked first as a project manager and then - from 2005 to 2006 - as a member of the board of directors of the think-
tank BerlinPolis.
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Robbert van het Kaar
Robbert van het Kaar (1957) obtained his Master degree as economist at the University of Amsterdam in 1998. His promotion was focused on judicial research, his thesis being titled: “Workers participation in mergers and detanglement”. Since 1997 he holds a positions as a senior researcher to the Hugo Sinzheimer Institute (HIS). For the HSI he coordinates the Dutch contributions to the European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO). His research is focused on two areas: first, labour relations and workers participation and second, corporate law and corporate governance.
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Henk van der Kolk
Henk van der Kolk has been chairman to FNV Bondgenoten since the end of 2002. Before, since 1997, he held the position of coordinator ‘Conditions of Employment’ at the Vakcentrale FNV. His experience predating the FNV has been as a negotiator representing teachers at the ‘Algemene Bond voor het Onderwijzend personeel’ (General League of Teachers), and a policy-advisor at the Voedingsbond FNV.
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Alexandra Krieger
Alexandra Krieger is head of department for the economy section I (on taxes and corporate finance, in particular capital markets, finance investors, Basel II) at the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung. On these topics, she is a consultant to supervisory boards and works councils, and speaks at conferences, political and educational institutions.
Alexandra Krieger is a trained bank management assistant, business editor and business administrator. Before joining HBS she has worked for 10 years at a German bank.
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Etienne Lebeau
Etienne (1965) has been working at the Education department of CSC-ACV since 1998, his topics of specialization are globalization, financialization and economic and social policies at Belgian and European level. He graduated in Zoology at the Université Catholique de Louvain (1987) and in Philosophy at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (1996).
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Glenn Morgan
Glenn Morgan is Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK. He is joint editor of the journal 'Organization; the critical journal of organization, theory and society' and he has published widely in organization and management journals.
His current research focuses on three main themes; firstly theories of comparative capitalisms and the impact of globalisation and regionalisation on the establishment, reproduction and change of institutions; secondly the internationalisation of law firms and how this interacts with changing forms of regulation and economic organization at the national, regional and global levels (research being conducted jointly with Dr.Sigrid Quack at the Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin); thirdly, the development of a sociological theory of multinational firms relating their structures of control and coordination to the dynamics of power within and across local social contexts (research being conducted with Professor Peer Hull Kristensen at Copenhagen Business School).
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Andrew Pendleton
As an undergraduate Professor Pendleton read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Wadham College, Oxford. After three years working for a third world development group, he did a PhD on Management Strategy and Industrial Relations in British Rail at the University of Bath. Andrew Pendleton has had lecturing posts in sociology of work, industrial relations, and human resource management at the universities of Bath, Bradford, and Kent. Immediately before coming to York he was Professor of Human Resource Management at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Main research interests are: Financial education; Employee share ownership plans;
Relationships between finance, corporate governance, and human resource management.
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Erik Poutsma (1951) is Associate Professor International Comparative Research of Employment Relations in the Department of Business Administration of Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University of Nijmegen. Currently he is executive manager of the PARTNER Research Group in Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University of Nijmegen. He was an Honorary Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) and is Visiting Professor at University of Greenwich (UK) and at Rutgers University, NJ (USA). His research interests are comparative human resource management, corporate governance, employee share ownership. Findings from his research have been published in Industrial Relations, Labour and Society, Economic and Industrial Democracy and International Journal of Human Resource Management and in chapters published in books in the UK, Netherlands, Germany and the USA.
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Geert Raaijmakers
Geert Raaijmakers is corporate partner at NautaDutilh and focuses his practice on public and private M&A. In addition, he advises on matters of corporate law and corporate governance.
Geert is a member of the Advisory Group on Corporate Governance and Company Law which advises the European Commission on new developments in these fields, including all relevant amendments in European regulation. He is also a professor at Maastricht University where he teaches corporate and securities law. He publishes regularly on developments in these areas, amongst which a doctoral thesis in 2002 on Representations and Warranties in Mergers and Acquisitions.
Prior to joining NautaDutilh Geert was attorney at a large Dutch law firm for six years where he started in corporate practice. In 2000 he joined ABP Investments where he specialized further in mergers and acquisitions, corporate law and corporate governance eventually as Associate Chief Counsel. In his practice he has been involved in public and private mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings and initial public offerings. He has furthermore frequently dealt with investment structures and various issues of corporate governance.
Geert is a member of the Advisory Group on Corporate Governance and Company Law which advises the European Commission on new developments in these fields, including all relevant amendments in European regulation. He is also a professor at Maastricht University where he teaches corporate and securities law. He publishes regularly on developments in these areas, amongst which a doctoral thesis in 2002 on Representations and Warranties in Mergers and Acquisitions.
Prior to joining NautaDutilh Geert was attorney at a large Dutch law firm for six years where he started in corporate practice. In 2000 he joined ABP Investments where he specialized further in mergers and acquisitions, corporate law and corporate governance eventually as Associate Chief Counsel. In his practice he has been involved in public and private mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings and initial public offerings. He has furthermore frequently dealt with investment structures and various issues of corporate governance.
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Paola Robotti
Paola Robotti commenced a Marie Curie outgoing international fellowship through CSGR in 2005. She spent the first twelve months of this fellowship based at the University of California in San Diego, before returning to CSGR in October 2006. During the returning phase of her Marie Curie fellowship, Paola worked on the regulatory debate on hedge funds in the United States. At the end of her fellowship, Paola became an Associate of CSGR to continue her involvement with the Centre.
Her work has been presented in several venues, including the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Chicago, February 2007. Robotti, P. (2006) "Capture or self-capture? US Congressional and Administrative Actions to Reach out the World of Hedge Funds" presented at the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Chicago, February 2007.
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Stefan Schmitz
In 2002 Stefan W. Schmitz was elected to the executive board of the Institute Vienna Circle - Society for the Advancement of the Scientific World Conception. He studied economics, business administration and philosophy of science in Vienna, London (MSc LSE) and New York (Research Seminar on Austrian Economics, NYU). He wrote his Ph.D. thesis on "Bank Expectations and Intertemporal Co-ordination Failure" at the Dept. of Economics at the University of Vienna. From September1998 to June 2003 he worked at the Research Unit for Institutional Change and European Integration at the Austrian Academy of Sciences as a research fellow. In 2003 he joined Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) as an economist
Areas of Interest are: Monetary Economics (payments systems, financial stability, and monetary policy); Political Economy of Financial Governance (i.e. pension funds); History of Economic Thought (Austrian School of Economics, New Institutional Economics, monetary doctrine); Digital Economy & eCommerce, Economics of the European Information Society, Applied Industrial Organisation, European (mobile) telecommunication markets
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Bernd Teufel
Bernd Teufel is PhD student at the research training group "Markets and Social Systems in Europe", University of Bamberg/Germany. His PhD-project focuses on the question how different kinds of national economies with different institutional settings are reflected on sector and company level. Therefore he compares small and medium-sized software companies in Germany and Great Britain, especially focussing on their different financing possibilities.
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Corinna Ullrich
Corinna Ullrich is a laywer by training and currently administrator in the Commission, DG Internal Market. She is in charge of the proposal for a directive on the exercise of shareholders' voting rights, the modification of the 2nd Company Law Directive on capital maintenance and alteration and of the works on a study on proportionality between ownership and control in listed EU companies. She is furthermore working on the consultation on future priorities for the Action Plan on the Modernisation of Company Law and Corporate Governance and supporting the European Corporate Governance Forum in its work. Before taking up her current job in DG Internal Market in late 2004, Corinna worked as an assistant to the General Director for Personnel and Administration. Prior to her work in the Commission, between 1997 and 2000, Corinna worked for the German Ministry of Justice in the field of European Law and Private Law and for the German Permanent Representation during the German Presidency in 1999.
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Jaap Winter
Jaap Winter (DeBrauw Blackstone Westbroek) specialises in corporate law, corporate governance, corporate litigation and insolvency.
He advises a number of corporate clients and institutional investors on corporate law and on governance developments in the Netherlands and in Europe. As Chairman of the EU High Level Group of Company Law Experts and a member of the Dutch Corporate Governance Committee chaired by Mr. Tabaksblat he plays a prominent role in corporate law developments in Europe and the Netherlands. He is a member of the European Corporate Governance Forum set up by the EU Commission to advise it on corporate governance developments in Europe. Jaap was chairman of the Committee Modernising Collective Investment Schemes for The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM).
He advises a number of corporate clients and institutional investors on corporate law and on governance developments in the Netherlands and in Europe. As Chairman of the EU High Level Group of Company Law Experts and a member of the Dutch Corporate Governance Committee chaired by Mr. Tabaksblat he plays a prominent role in corporate law developments in Europe and the Netherlands. He is a member of the European Corporate Governance Forum set up by the EU Commission to advise it on corporate governance developments in Europe. Jaap was chairman of the Committee Modernising Collective Investment Schemes for The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM).
Jaap is a member of the Dutch Insolvency Committee, advising the government on a review of the insolvency legislation and is a professor of international company law at the University of Amsterdam and visiting professor at Columbia Law School in New York. From 1997 - 1992 Jaap has worked at Unilever N.V. as the legal advisor to its Board of Directors.
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