Who

Re-Imagine Europa’s Task Force on Democracy in a Digital Society is composed by a Steering Committee, responsible for the overall management of the Task Force, and an Expert Committee, as the main constituent body of the Task Force, bringing together a wide range of expert and stakeholder perspectives.

 

CHAIR

Manuel Castells Portrait

Manuel CASTELLS, Former Minister of University of the Spanish Government, Professor of Sociology at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) and Wallis Annenberg Chair Professor of Communication Technology and Society at the Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California.

 

STEERING COMMITTEE

  • Elisabeth Ardaillon-Poirer, Member of the Scientific Committee, Robert Schuman Foundation
  • Brando Benifei, Member of the European Parliament, Vice-President of the European Movement International
  • Anthony Gooch, Former Director of Public Affairs & Communications at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
  • Christophe Leclerq, Founder of EURACTIV media network & Chairman of Fondation EURACTIV
  • Joe Lynam, BBC Broadcaster
  • Maria Grazia Mattei, Founder and President at MEET – Fondazione Cariplo
  • Alain Strowel, Saint-Louis University (Brussels) and the UCLouvain (Belgium)
  • Krzysztof Szubert, Former Secretary of State / Deputy Minister of Digital Affairs, Poland. Visiting Fellow, University of Oxford, UK. Strategic Advisor of National Research Institute (NASK). Member of the Council of the National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR).
  • Jeroen van den Hoven, Professor of Ethics and Technology at Delft University

 

EXPERT COMMITTEE

  • Andrea Almeida Cordero
  • Laure Ansquer
  • Maria Baghramian
  • François Balate
  • Naja Bentzen
  • Gabriel Bianchi
  • Jaak Billiet
  • Jeremy Brey
  • Kinga Brudzinska
  • Daphne Bullesbach
  • Carl-Christian Buhr
  • Luca de Biase
  • Jens Degett
  • Sara Diefenbach
  • Paul-Jasper Dittrich
  • Luke Drury
  • Jérôme Duberry
  • Sebastian Fairhurst
  • Anna Maria Fleetwood
  • Eva Flecken
  • Franck Fourniol
  • Nicola Frank
  • Mariya Gabriel
  • Gerd Gigerenzer
  • Christophe Glauser
  • Jonathan Hackenbroich
  • Bernd Halling 
  • Gry Hasselbalch
  • Isabella Hermann
  • Stijn Hoorens
  • Martin Hynes
  • Susanna Irles
  • Wolfgang Jamann
  • Matthias Johannsen
  • Daniel Kaiser
  • Konstantinos Kallergis
  • Natascha Keller Cali
  • Giovanni La Placa
  • Catherine Leclercq
  • Sascha Lobo
  • Antonio Loprieno
  • Lorenzo Marsili 
  • Luisa Meisel
  • Catherine Miller
  • Gianluca Misuraca 
  • Arnau Monterde 
  • Christal Morehouse
  • Matteo Nicolosi
  • Hannu Nieminen
  • Justin Nogarede
  • Ed Noort 
  • Andrzej Nowak
  • Onora O’Neill
  • Gloria Origgi
  • Jo Pierson
  • Gernot Rieder
  • Maria João Rodrigues
  • Bret Schafer
  • Peter Scherrer
  • Philip Schlesinger
  • Tomoko Schimizu
  • Robert Soltyk
  • Michele Sorice
  • Slavko Splichal
  • Erika Staël von Holstein
  • Günter Stock 
  • Volker Stollorz
  • Tom Symons
  • Jonathan Taplin
  • Klaus Taschwer
  • Thorsten Thiel
  • Céline Tschirhart
  • Žiga Turk
  • Sylwia Ufnalska
  • Pamela Valenti
  • Martin van Hees
  • Lambert van Nistelrooij
  • Peter Weingart
  • Wolfgang Wohnhas
  • Pak-Hang Wong
  • Christiane Woopen
  • Holger Wormer
  • Szymon Wróbel
  • Nuri Yurdusev
  • Hamza Zeytinoglu
  • Ricarda Ziegler
We need to change the way we relate to citizens and this will enable meaningful interaction between the political system and the public.
Lambert Van Nistelrooij Member of the European Parliament
It took about two-and-a-half centuries to get the cultures of copyright, the laws of defamation, the conceptions of intellectual property, that reconciled what was done by the arrival of printing.
Onora Sylvia O’Neill, Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge
Antonio Loprieno Portrait
These issues are intellectually interesting as they make us reflect on the philosophical, social and political foundations of our post-enlightenment Europe.
We have taken democracy for granted. Reality is that those things we have taken for granted are no more.
Anthony Gooch Director of Public Affairs & Communications at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Christophe Leclercq Portrait
Avoid censorship, dilute fake news, promote quality content.
Christophe Leclerq Founder of EURACTIV media network & Executive Chairman of Fondation EURACTIV
Maria João Rodrigues Portrait
We need to redefine how our democratic institutions work in the 21st century
Photo of Enrico Letta
Europe is its peoples, its diversity, its creativity, its historical, artistic, and landscape heritage, its openness, its tolerance, but also its wars, its tragedies and its shameful events...
Enrico Letta Former Prime Minister of Italy
Young people have been calling for a more united and progressive Europe since early days. So reimagine Europe with us, young people. It's possible.
Luis Alvarado European Youth Forum
Martin Grötschel Portrait
Academies should play a stronger role in these issues because they can provide broad interdisciplinary knowledge-base and expertise in order to analyse the issues that are arising and to arrive at recommendations for their solutions.
Monica Maggioni Portrait
To re-imagine Europa is to re-define our common goals. It is the courage to face our missteps
Monica Maggioni President of Rai
Caroline de Gruyter
We Europeans used to shoot at each other with ammunition, and now we all go to Brussels and shoot at each other with words...
Caroline de Gruyter Journalist and Author
Žiga Turk Portrait
The democratic systems that we have today have changed too little to respond to technological change. At the same time, they have changed too much for the nature of man, that is much less plastic.
Žiga Turk Professor in Construction Informatics at the Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering at the University of Ljubljana
Digital is the new "genetic code" of reality which triggers the way people live and interact. What citizens need is urgent dissemination of digital culture.
Maria Grazia Mattei Founder and President of MEET
Democracy is not about consensus building, but about peaceful communication and finding solutions through compromise.
Christiane Woopen Chair of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies; Exec. Director of the Center for Ethics, Rights, Economics, and Social Sciences of Health (CERES), University of Cologne