Aline BURNI
Policy Advisor at Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. Aline worked at FEPS as a Policy Analyst on International Relations from April 2022 until April 2023. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil) and her doctoral thesis focused on the effect of the rise of populist radical right parties on immigration policies in Europe. During her doctoral studies, she was a Fulbright visiting scholar at the New York University (NYU), and a visiting researcher at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium). Before joining FEPS, Aline worked as a researcher for the global development think tank German Development Institute/ Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in Bonn, where her academic and policy advice work centered on international cooperation, EUdevelopment policy, and populism. Aline has applied experience with multi-sector international partnerships and international cooperation for development, having worked in the past as a Local Consultant and Project Coordinator for the international NGO PYXERA Global, and as Head of the National and International Partnerships Advisory for the Minas Gerais State Government, in Brazil.
Andrew CUMBERS
Andrew Cumbers is a Professor of Political Economy at the University of Glasgow and Visiting Professor in Economic Geography at the University of Bonn. He has written extensively on urban, local and regional economic development. More recently his interests have focused on economic democracy, public ownership and alternative economic strategies.
Thorben ALBRECHT
is Policy Director of IG Metall. He is an internationally acknowledged expert on the future of work and has been a member of the ILO‘s Global Commission on the Future of Work chaired by South African president Cyril Ramaphosa and Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven. From 2014 to 2018 Thorben has been a State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.
Vasco Alves CORDEIRO
President of the European Committee of the Regions. Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region of the Azores since 1996 and President of the Regional Government from 2012 to 2020, Cordeiro has been the leader of the Socialist Party of the Azores since January 2013.
Victor NEGRESCU
Vice-President of the European Parliament, member of the Budgets and Legal Affairs Committees, Vice-President of the Party of European Socialists (PES), National Coordinator of PES activists Romania, part of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats Group in the European Parliament
