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Walid PHARES
Walid Phares was born in Lebanon, where he studied at the Lebanese and St Joseph Universities. After
earning degrees in law, political science and sociology, he practiced law in Beirut. He then earned a
Masters degree in International Law from the Université de Lyon in France and a Ph.D. in international
relations and strategic studies from the University of Miami. He emigrated to the United States in 1990.
As of 2008, Phares teaches Global Strategies at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C.
He is a Senior Fellow and the Director of the Future Terrorism Project at the Foundation for Defense of
Democracies in Washington, D.C., and a Visiting Fellow at the European Foundation for Democracy
in Brussels. In 2008 he also became the Coordinator of the Trans-Atlantic Parliamentary Group on Counter Jihadi-Terrorism.
Phares taught at the Department of Political Science at Florida Atlantic University between 1993 and 2005. He has been a senior
lecturer at the Lifelong Learning Society since 1994. His courses include Middle East Politics, Political History, Ethnic and
Religious Conflict and International Terrorism. He has given lectures throughout North America and Europe.
Dan Iulius PLAVETI
President, Romanian Energy Regulatory Authority – ANRE
Mr. Dan Iulius Plaveti was appointed President of the Romanian Energy Regulatory Authority in July 2010.
Previously, he held the position of vice-president of ANRE, from March 2009. Starting with 2010, he is member
in the Board of Regulators of the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators – ACER, being part of
the process to facilitate consultation, coordination and cooperation between the regulatory bodies in Member
States. He is one of the main supporters of the development of a national competitive gas market and a promoter
of the use of renewable sources in energy generation. He supports regional cooperation in order to meet the
requirements of the European regulations and promotes the Romanian experience in the field of competitive
electricity markets.
He has a university degree in engineering and started his professional career in 1992.
Cristian Dan PREDA
Member of Committee on Foreign Affairs and Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries
and the Arab Maghreb Union.
Substitute of Committee on Development, Committee on Petitions, Subcommittee on Human Rights,
Delegation to the Cariforum — EU Parliamentary Committee, Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly
of the Union for the Mediterranean and Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly.
Degree in the history of philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest (1986-1991);
Master’s in the history of philosophy, University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) (1990-1991);
Doctorate in political science, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris (1998).
Professor, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Bucharest (1992-present); Dean, Faculty of
Political Sciences, University of Bucharest (2004, re-elected 2008); Doctoral supervisor, Faculty of
Political Sciences, University of Bucharest (2005).
Counsellor to the Presidential Administration (1999-2000); Head of project involving branches of the Bureau for Central and Eastern
Europe and the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (2001-2002); State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2005-2007);
Presidential counsellor (2007-2009); Personal representative for ‘la Francophonie’ of the Romanian President (2005-present).
Member, Group for Social Dialogue (1995-present); Member, Institute of Political Studies, University of Bucharest (1995present);
Contributor to the journals ‘Dilema’, ‘22’ and ‘Sfera Politicii’.
Editor of the series ‘Societatea politică’, Editura Nemira (1998-2002), ‘Polis’, Humanitas (2002-2004) and ‘Biblioteca de
politica’, Nemira (2004-present); Editor of the journal ‘Studia politica’ (January 2001-present); Translator with Humanitas,
Babel, Anastasia and Nemira.
Author of numerous books on: history of Romanian political thought, history of liberalism and electoral systems in Romanian
political history.
Commander of the National Order of Romania (‘Faithful Service’) (December 2002); Officer of the Ordre Léopold (July 2008);
Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honour (January 2009); Knight of the Order ‘Steaua României’ (‘Star of Romania’, 2009);
High Officer of the Order of the Crown (2009).
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