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Godelieve QUISTHOUDT-ROWOHL<br />

<strong>European</strong> <strong>Ideas</strong> <strong>Network</strong><br />

Va d e m e c u m o f t h e s p e a k e r s<br />

Godelieve Quisthoudt-Rowohl is a member of the <strong>European</strong> People’s Party group in the <strong>European</strong><br />

Parliament. Her constituency is the Lower Saxony. After obtaining a MS in chemistry,<br />

she served as a Fellow from 1972 to 1973 at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry<br />

at the University of Leuven (Belgium) and received her PhD in physical chemistry. From<br />

1974 to 1979, she researched for the Medical University of Hannover before working as Research<br />

Fellow (Akademische Rätin) at the University of Hildesheim from 1979 to 1989. Today<br />

she teaches pro bono at the University’s Institute of Social Sciences and has been an honorary<br />

professor at the Department of Education and Social Sciences since 2009. Quisthoudt-Rowohl<br />

is a member of the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and serves on its regional<br />

board in Lower Saxony as well as on the national party board. She was first elected to the <strong>European</strong> Parliament in<br />

1989 and has since been continually reelected. She focuses on international trade and international affairs and is an expert<br />

on education. Currently she serves on the <strong>European</strong> Parliament’s Committee on International Trade. She was born in Etterbeek<br />

(Brussels region, Belgium), is married with four adult children, and lives in Hildesheim.<br />

José Ignacio SALAFRANCA SÁNCHEZ-NEYRA<br />

Chair of Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly.<br />

Member of Committee on Foreign Affairs, Group of the <strong>European</strong> People’s Party (Christian<br />

Democrats), Conference of Delegation Chairs, Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary<br />

Committee.<br />

Education<br />

Degree and further courses in law at the Complutense University of Madrid.<br />

Honorary doctorate from the University of the Americas, Chile.<br />

Diplomas in <strong>European</strong> integration from the Diplomatic School of Madrid and the National<br />

Institute of Public Administration.<br />

Political career<br />

2000: Chairman of the observation mission for the presidential elections in Colombia (2002) and Chairman of the <strong>European</strong><br />

Parliament’s observation mission for the presidential elections in Peru<br />

2001: <strong>European</strong> Parliament representative at the Second Summit of Heads of State and Government of the EU, Latin America<br />

and the Caribbean (Madrid, 2002) and at the Third Summit of Heads of State and Government of the EU, Latin America and<br />

the Caribbean (Guadalajara, Mexico, 2004), and head of the parliamentary delegation to the 12th, 13th and 14th San Jose<br />

Ministerial Conferences with the Rio Group (2000, 2001) and the Euro-Mediterranean partnership<br />

<strong>European</strong> Parliament’s rapporteur on the bi-regional strategic association between the EU and Latin America and the<br />

association, political dialogue and cooperation agreements between the <strong>European</strong> Community and Mexico, Chile and the<br />

Andean Community<br />

Patron of the Fundación Activa, patron of the Hispano-Cuban Foundation, Vice-President of the Juan de la Cosa Foundation<br />

In 2006, Salafranca was the chief of a committee of 70 electoral observers from the <strong>European</strong> Union for the Mexican general election.<br />

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