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Carme Colomina is an associate researcher at CIDOB [Barcelona Centre for International Affairs]. An information science graduate of the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a postgraduate of European Union studies at the UOC [Barcelona Open University], from 1997 to 2001, she was head of international affairs and a correspondent for Catalunya Ràdio in Brussels. While in Brussels, she also worked…

Carmen Claudin is a senior research fellow at CIDOB  [Barcelona’s Centre for International Affairs], where she was the director of research from 1998–2012 and has been the deputy director since September 1999. She was awarded a Master’s in Philosophy from the University of the Sorbonne, Paris, where she studied a postgraduate course in Philosophy and History, specialising in Russian and…

Alena Chudžíková, born 1984, holds degrees from the Department of Psychology at Trnava University and from the School of Life Sciences at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England. In studying social psychology she focused on issues such as prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination. She has been intrigued by the socio-cultural and psychological adaptation of migrants from Central Europe who live…

Zinab Chokoud is a student of European studies. Since 2010 she has been one of two Hague youth ambassadors for Europe. Her role is to represent the Hague youth on matters concerning Europe, which she does by advising on and organising diverse European initiatives and projects. She is also active in European networking projects and shares the responsibility for the…

Marek Aleksander Cichocki, born 1966 in Warsaw, is a Polish philosopher, historian of political thought, journalist, conservative columnist and a former advisor to Lech Kaczyński, the late President of Poland, active during negotiations with the EU at the Brussels summit of 2007. Cichocki graduated in German studies and in 1998 he received his PhD degree in philosophy at the Institute…

Thierry Chervel is a German journalist with Franco-German roots, based in Berlin. After studying music theory, he worked as staff writer for the German daily taz [die Tageszeitung] and later as the Süddeutsche Zeitung’s arts correspondent in Paris. In 2002 he co-founded the well-respected German online cultural magazine Perlentaucher, followed by its English language version Signandsight [2005-2012]. He continues to…

Brian Carney is a member of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board and editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe’s editorial page. Born in New York, Mr. Carney received a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a master’s degree from Boston University. While a student at Boston University, Mr. Carney was a program assistant for the Innovations in American Government…

Juraj Buzalka is a Slovak social anthropologist based in Bratislava. His research at the Institute of Social Anthropology in the Social and Economic Department of the Comenius University focuses on political and economic anthropology, social movements and transformations, nationalism and populism. He graduated in political science and journalism from the Comenius University in Bratislava and has a degree in social…

Piotr Buras is a journalist, author and expert in German and European politics. Between 2008 and 2012 he worked as a columnist and Berlin correspondent for Gazeta Wyborcza, the biggest Polish daily. He started his professional career in the late 1990s at the Centre for International Relations in Warsaw, one of the first Polish think-tanks. He continued his career at…

Jan Runge became UNIC’s new CEO in 2011, overseeing the organisation’s relocation from Paris to Brussels. He had previously worked for two leading media industry consultancies in London and Brussels and had advised both the European Parliament and the European Commission on their future strategies to promote the European film sector. Jan has gained experience as a researcher and EU…

Pascal Bruckner is a French philosopher based in Paris. He is the author of bestselling novels, including Lunes de Fiel [Evil Angels] (also a Roman Polanski film of the name Bitter Moon); Parias and Le Divin Enfant [The Divine Child], and essays critical of the hackneyed clichés of solidarity with the third world and of “triumphant democracy“, “dictatorship of the…

David Bowden is a coordinator for the Insitute of Ideas‘ Battle of Ideas’ satellite debates. He is also a poetry editor for Culture Wars and a TV Columnist with Spiked. David was also a co-founder of the Institute of Ideas’ Current Affairs Forum. An alumnus of the Debating Matters competition, having competed in its first year 03/04, he has continued…