Program

Thursday, October 26, 2023

Event Partner

Who's Coming

Lena Anzenhofer
Johan Aurik
Maximilian Beck
Giacomo Bogo
Pilar Bolognesi
Tommaso Carbone
Vanessa Dick
Cecile Dubois
Wioletta Dunin-Majewska
Charles Esser
Marie-Helene Fandel
Edoardo Farsi
Brian Fox
Luigi Giovine
Amy Grosse
Christian Gruber
Liv Heinrich
Malte Helligsøe
Andrew Hill
ARTURO INCERTI
Jay Kimmel
Hanns Koenig
Cécile Le Clercq
Chris Lombardi
Roberta Lusardi
Chiara Monti
Miguel Pereira Mendes
Alessandro Rizzi
Jack Ronan
Francesca Scassellati Sforzolini
Annabel Sels
Nathan Shepura
Michael Stanton-Geddes
Nicholas Steinwand
Amos Tincani
Marius Vahl
Filip Van Depoele
Marc Vereecken
Claudia Vernotti
Lisa Wagner
Markus Wilthaner
Niklas Wolfrum
Renata Zilli
Vladimir Zuberec

PROGRAM

18:00

Doors open

18:15

Welcoming remarks by Lorenza Badiello, Director of the Emilia-Romagna Region's Delegation to the EU

Introduction by Joe Brinker ('02), President of the JHU SAIS Belgium Chapter

Opening remarks by Michael Plummer (B'82), SAIS Europe Director (outgoing) and ENI Professor of International Economics at SAIS Europe

Presentation by Michael Leigh, Senior Adjunct Professor of European Studies, Academic Director, Master of Arts in European Public Policy (MEPP); Academic Director, Master of Arts in Global Risk (MAGR)

18:40

Calm between the storms: climate and energy policy in a transatlantic context

Panel discussion with:

Kurt Vandenberghe (B'91, '92), Director-General - Directorate-General Climate Action (DG CLIMA), European Commission
Bob van der Zwaan, Adjunct Professor of Energy, Resources and Environment, SAIS Europe
Elena Pravettoni (B'14, '15) Clean Power Lead at Energy Transitions Commission | Associate at SYSTEMIQ

moderated by Kalina Oroschakoff (B'11, '12), Reporter, writing about climate and politics @NZZ Neue Zürcher Zeitung

20:00

Cocktail Reception

21:00

End of the event

A group of SAIS Europe current students and prospective students will join SAIS alumni and members of the SAIS community for the event