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Ivan HODAC
Ivan Hodac is ACEA Secretary-General since 2001. Building on a large experience in EU affairs, he
maintains close relationships with the European Commission, the European Parliament and the EU
representatives of the Member States. As representative in Brussels of the 15 European automobile
manufacturers, Hodac is also counterpart for other industry associations, NGOs and consumer
organisations in Brussels. Hodac (1946) was born in Prague where he studied mechanical
engineering. He completed his education at the University of Copenhagen (economics and
political science) and the College of Europe in Bruges (European studies).
Before joining ACEA, he was senior vice president and head of Time Warner Europe office. His
responsibilities included the co-ordinating of public and corporate affairs activities of all Time Warner operating divisions in Europe
and representing Time Warner corporate interests vis-à-vis the institutions of the European Union, international organisations and
governments of EU Member States and other European countries. Previously, Hodac was Secretary-General of trade organisation
IFMA/IMACE, senior economist at Didier & Associates and assistant at the College of Europe, Bruges.
Dirk HUDIG
Dirk Hudig was former Secretary General of the Union of Industrial & Employers’ Confederations of
Europe from 1998 to 2001.
He held several other posts including Chairman of the BIAC Environment Committee in the OECD, Secretary
and Treasurer of the Society of Chemical Industry Europe Committee, and one of the founding members of the
Transatlantic Policy Network (TPN) and its Programme Committee, as well the chemicals coordinator for the Trans-
Atlantic Business Dialogue, TABD. He is also a former President of the British Chamber of Commerce in Belgium.
In 1970 he joined ICI, the UK Chemicals company, and worked in various businesses within the group in Rotterdam,
London & Brussels before becoming national Head and Group Manager of EU Government Relations for ICI
from 1987-1998. Currently he is Chairman of the European Risk Forum on EU regulation and impact assessment
with a particular interest in risk, regulatory reform, cost benefit analysis and the quality of regulation.
In 2001 he joined FIPRA, the public affairs consultancy network, as first Chairman of the FIPRA
group’s representation in Brussels.
Kelemen HUNOR
The current president of the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR), he has been a
member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies since 2000, and was nominated as his party’s
candidate for the 2009 presidential election. Since December 2009 he is Romania’s Minister of
Culture in the Emil Boc government.
Kelemen entered politics in 1997, when he was appointed as Secretary of State from the UDMR
in the Romanian government’s Ministry of Culture.
Hunor Kelemen was one of the founders of the Hungarian language cultural magazines Jelenlét
and later became deputy editor in chief. In 1995 he published his first poetry volume in Hungarian
language, Mínuszévek, for which he was awarded the Debut Prize of the Writers’ Union of Romania in 1996
In 2000, Hunor Kelemen was awarded the Order of the Star of Romania, Commander Rank, and in 2008 Hungary’s Middle
Cross of the Order of Merit.
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