Mr. Xavier Baeselen MP
Parliament:
Belgian Federal Parliament
Political Party:
Liberal Deputy (MR) Mr. Baeselen has been the Liberal Deputy (MR) from Bruxelles-Hal-Vilvorde’s county since 20th March 2008, replacing Mr. Bernard Clerfayt, Secretary of State. Mr. Baeselen was born in Brussels in 1972 and graduated with a degree in criminology. He is a high school and university Associate Professor and the Political Secretary for the MR group in the House of Representatives. Mr. Baeselen is also currently the Finance, Population and Information Technology Councillor of Watermael-Boitsfort.
Mr. Tony Baldry MP
Parliament:
The UK Parliament, House of Commons
Political Party:
Conservative Party Mr. Baldry is Member of Parliament for North Oxfordshire. Educated at Leighton Park, University of Sussex, and Lincoln's Inn, Mr. Baldry has been an MP since 1983. He held various ministerial posts from 1990 until the last General Election, serving as Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1995-97. A practising barrister, Mr. Baldry was awarded the Robert Schumann Silver Medal for contribution to European politics in 1975. He takes a keen interest in foreign affairs, and is a Governor of the Commonwealth Institute and on the Council of the Overseas Development Institute and Chatham House. Mr. Baldry was Chairman of the House of Commons Select Committee on International Development in the last Parliament.
Ms. Shukria Barakzai, MP
Parliament:
Afghanistan Parliament Ms. Shukria Barakzai is a parliamentarian and a women rights activist in Afghanistan. After she was beaten on the streets of Kabul by the Taliban militants for being outdoors without a man, she became a women rights activist. She first founded a clandestine school for girls and later when the Taliban forces were ousted from Kabul, Aina-E-Zan (“Women’s Mirror”) a national weekly newspaper which informs women in Afghanistan about the recent developments in health care, education and civil society. Ms, Barakzai is an outspoken critic of child marriages, forced marriages and home violence towards women. In 2003 she was appointed a member of loya jirga, a representative body convened to discuss the Constitution of Afghanistan. In 2004 she was elected a member of the Lower House of the Afghanistan Parliament. Her outstanding public service has also received recognition outside Afghanistan. She was named the International Editor of the Year by the World Press Review in 2004 and a Woman of the Year by the BBC radio program Woman’s Hour. She holds a degree in geology and archaeology from the University in Kabul.
Ms. Angelika Beer
Ms. Beer is a German former member of the European Parliament. She is also a former member of the German Bundestag, was head of the Green Party in Germany, and held the position of Coordinator of the international campaign against land mines for Medico International. She was a member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, and remains active in various other organizations including the Berlin Information Centre for Transatlantic Security and sits on the advisory board of the Forum for Civil Peace Service.
Ms. Juliette Boulet MP
Parliament:
Belgian Federal Parliament
Political Party:
Green Party Ms. Boulet is one of the youngest members of the Belgian Federal Parliament and an active member of the Federation of Young European Greens. Alongside her environmental engagement, Ms. Boulet also has a strong interest in the issues of refugees and migration. Passionate about the Middle-East, Ms. Boulet has been particularly engaged in Palestine and Afghanistan.
Ms. Emine Bozkurt MEP
Parliament:
European Parliament
Political Party:
Socialist Group in the European Parliament Ms. Bozkurt has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2004. She holds the position of Chairwoman of the Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America. She is an active participant on several key committees and delegations including the Conference of Delegation Chairs; Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs; Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and the Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly. Ms Bozkurt is a Labour Party member and has been a Member of the PvdA European policy advisory committee since 1999.
Ms. Franziska Katharina Brantner, MEP
Parliament:
European Parliament
Political Party:
Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance Ms. Franziska Katharina Brantner is a German politician and a member of the European Parliament. She is the spokesperson for foreign affairs of the Group of the Greens.
Ms. Brantner graduated from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, in Paris in 2004 with a Diplôme des Sciences Politiques. She then obtained a Master of International Affairs from the School of Public and International Affairs of the Columbia University in New York. She went on to be a consultant for the United Nations Development Fund for Women and the European Council on Foreign Relations. She was also research assistant for the European Studies Centre, Oxford University and a Project Manager for the Bertelsmann Foundation in Brussels.
Ms. Brantner is a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and of the Delegation for relations with Israel. She is also a substitute for the Subcommittee on Security and Defence and the Delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo.
Mr. André Brie
Mr. Elmar Brok MEP
Parliament:
European Parliament/Germany
Political Party:
Christian Democrats Mr. Brok is a Member of the European Parliament for the German Christian Democratic Party (CDU). He has been in office since 1980 and is currently a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, a substitute member of the Constitutional Affairs Committee and a member of the delegation for relations with the United States. Mr. Brok is the foreign affairs co-ordinator of the European People's Party (EPP) and member of the EPP-bureau. He was the Parliament's main Rapporteur on Enlargement and is today Rapporteur for the EU's enlargement strategy and the European Diplomatic Action Service. During the intergovernmental conferences on the Lisbon Treaty as well as for the Treaty of Amsterdam, the Treaty of Nice and the EU Constitution he was the European Parliament's representative.
Ms. Edelgard Bulmahn MP
Parliament:
German Bundestag
Political Party:
Social Democratic Party Ms. Edelgard Bulmahn is a German politician and a member of the German Bundestag since 1987. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and has been a member of the party executive since 1993.
In the federal state of Lower Saxony, she served as party leader from 1998 to 2003. In parliament, she chaired the Committee for Education, Science, Research and Technology in the 1990s and was elected spokeswoman for education and research of the SPD parliamentary group. From 1998 to 2005, she served as German Federal Minister of Education and Research. During this time, she initiated the founding of the German Foundation for Peace Research (DSF). From 2005 to 2009, Edelgard Bulmahn chaired the Committee on Economics and Technology.
Since 2009, she is a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. She is also the SPD spokeswoman on the Subcommittee for Civilian Conflict Prevention and Cross-Linked Security and a member of the foundation board of the Berghof Foundation for Conflict Studies.
Mr. Didier Burkhalter MP
Parliament:
Swiss Parliament
Political Party:
Freisinnig-Demokratische Partei Schweiz Mr. Burkhalter is a Swiss politician of the Freisinnig-Demokratische Partei Schweiz (FDP/PRD) from the Canton of Neuchâtel and member of the Council of States since 2007. Previously a member of the parliament of the Canton of Neuchâtel from 1990 to 2001 and a member of the government of the city of Neuchâtel from 1991 to 2005, Mr. Burkhalter was a member of the Swiss National Council from 2003 to 2007. On 11 November 2007, he was elected to the Council of States, along with Socialist Party candidate Gisèle Ory, who was re-elected for a second term.
