Rolf Tarrach was the President of the University of Luxembourg from January 2005 to December 2014 and is now Rector emeritus since January 2018. He studied physics in Valencia, received a PhD degree in Barcelona and was postdoc at CERN, Geneva. Dr. Tarrach was professor of theoretical physics at the University of Luxembourg and also served in that capacity at the universities of Valencia and Barcelona. He has published some 100 articles in quantum field theory, quantum chromodynamics and quantum information theory, four books on different subjects and some 100 essays on research, education and other knowledge related subjects. He has done research in a dozen countries and has been awarded an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Saint Petersburg and another one from the University of Liège. Dr Tarrach has received awards and decorations in Spain, Portugal and Luxembourg and has been Dean and Vice-president at the University of Barcelona. He is a former president of the CSIC (the Spanish Scientific Research Council, Madrid), and a former member of EURAB, EUROHORCS, ESOF (2004 in Stockholm, 2006 in Munich and 2008 in Barcelona), former president of ACA (Brussels) and former Vice-chair of the jury of the French “Initiative d’excellence”. He chaired the committee of international experts EU2015 (2011, Spain). He has been on the EUA Council for 10 years and is EUA’s president as of July 2015.

Niccolo Milanese is a founding director of European Alternatives, a civil society organisation promoting democracy, equality and culture beyond the nation state. With Lorenzo Marsili, he is author of Citizens of Nowhere: How to save Europe from itself (Zedbooks 2018). He has been involved in many civil society and literary initiatives on all sides of the Mediterranean to promote civic education, democracy, human rights and political imagination.

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New Pamphlet: The Left against Brexit (with Another Europe is Possible)

New Book: Citizens of Nowhere (Zed books 2018)

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Guérot is professor at the Danube University in Krems, Austria and head of the Department for European Policy and the Study of Democracy. She is the founder of the European Democracy Lab in Berlin, a think-tank dedicated to the idea of a European Republic.
Ulrike Guérot has worked in several international think-tanks in Paris, Brussels, London and Washington. Her first book “Why Europe needs to become a Republic! A political utopia”, was published in 2016 and her latest work “The new civil war – the open Europe and its enemies”, became a bestseller in Germany.

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Alberto Alemanno is Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law at HEC Paris and Global Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. Due to his commitment to bridge the gap between academic research and policy action, Alberto pioneered innovative, gamified forms of civic engagement and activism in the EU transnational space via his civic start up The Good Lobby. His last book, ‘Lobbying for Change: Find Your Voice to Create a Better Society’ (Iconbooks, 2017), provides a timely analysis and guide to levelling the democratic playing field by empowering ordinary citizens to speak up and inform policy decisions at local, national and international level.

The World Economic Forum nominated him Young Global Leader in 2015 and Friends of Europe included him among the 40under40 European Young Leaders.

Alberto is a regular contributor to Le Monde, Bloomberg, Politico Europe, Forbes, and Il Sole 24 Ore, and his scholarly and public interest work has been featured in The Economist, The New York Times, the Financial Times as well Science and Nature.

He sits on the board of several civil society organisations, such as Access Info Europe and Diritto di Sapere, as well as the citizens’ campaigning movements We Move, which operates transnationally, and Riparte il Futuro, which is active in Italy. He’s the author of more than twenty scientific articles and several academic books such as the acclaimed ‘Nudge and the Law – A European Perspective’.

Originally from Italy, Alberto is a graduate of Harvard Law School, the College of Europe and holds a PhD in International Law & Economics from Bocconi University.