College of Europe - Alumni

Alumni

Many former students of the College, referred to as anciens (French for alumni), have gone on to serve as government ministers, members of various parliaments, diplomats and high ranking civil servants and executives.

A list of all anciens from 1949 to 1999 is included in the book The College of Europe. Fifty Years of Service to Europe (1999), edited by Dieter Mahncke, Léonce Bekemans and Robert Picht.

Alumni of note of the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium (from 1949) include:

• Gaetano Adinolfi, former Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe
• Frans Alphons Maria Alting von Geusau, Dutch legal scholar and diplomat
• Bernadette Andreosso-O'Callaghan, French-Irish economist, Jean Monnet Professor of Economics at the University of Limerick
• Peter Arbo, Norwegian academic
• Árni Páll Árnason, Icelandic Minister of Economic Affairs. Promotion Mozart.
• Ioanna Babassika, Greek human rights lawyer, member of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture
• Ledi Bianku, judge at the European Court of Human Rights
• Margunn Bjørnholt, Norwegian sociologist
• Iwo Byczewski, former Polish Deputy Foreign Minister (1991–1995), Ambassador to Belgium and Permanent Representative to the European Union
• Geert Van Calster, Belgian lawyer and legal scholar
• Franz Ceska, Austrian Ambassador to Belgium and France, Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva
• Poul Skytte Christoffersen, Danish Permanent Representative to the European Institutions, Special Advisor to The Right Honourable Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
• Nick Clegg, British politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the Liberal Democrats, former member of the European Parliament
• Luc Coene, Belgian economist and Governor of the National Bank of Belgium (NBB)
• Karl Cox, Vice President of the Oracle Corporation
• Martin Donnelly, British civil servant
• Niels Egelund, Danish diplomat, former Permanent Representative to NATO and Ambassador to France
• Jonathan Faull, Director General for the Internal Market and Services
• Nigel Forman, British MP and Minister of Higher Education (1992), a member of the Conservative Party
• Gabriel Fragnière, Swiss academic
• Louise Fréchette, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
• Francesco Paolo Fulci, former Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations (1993–1999), currently serving as President of Ferrero SpA
• Otto von der Gablentz, German diplomat and academic
• Luis Garicano, Professor of Economics and Strategy at the London School of Economics
• Miriam González Durántez, Spanish lawyer and wife of Nick Clegg
• Fiona Hayes-Renshaw, British academic, visiting professor at the college since 2001
• Chris Hoornaert, Permanent Representative of Belgium to the OECD
• Simon Hughes, British politician and Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament
• Marc Jaeger, judge at the General Court of the EU
• Josef Joffe, German editor and publisher of Die Zeit and adjunct professor of political science at Stanford University
• Claudia Kahr, judge at the Austrian Constitutional Court
• Stephen Kinnock, Director at the World Economic Forum
• Berno Kjeldsen, Danish ambassador
• Lars-Jacob Krogh, journalist
• Jo Leinen, German member of the European Parliament, former president of the Union of European Federalists
• Christian Lequesne, Professor of European Politics at Sciences Po, the College of Europe and the London School of Economics
• Leif Terje Løddesøl, former Chair of Statoil
• Sylvie Lucas, Luxembourg's ambassador to the United Nations and president of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) (2009–2010)
• Manuel Marín, former President of the European Commission
• Thomas Mayr-Harting, Ambassador, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations
• Ian McIntyre, British journalist
• David McWilliams, Irish economist, journalist and documentary-maker
• Holger Michael, German ambassador
• Enzo Moavero Milanesi, Minister for European Affairs of Italy
• Goenawan Mohamad, Indonesian poet
• Juan Moscoso del Prado, Spanish socialist Member of Parliament, spokesman in the European Union Committee
• Jon Ola Norbom, former Minister of Finance of Norway
• Jim Oberstar, member of the United States House of Representatives
• Mary O'Rourke, barrister
• David O'Sullivan (civil servant), Chief Operating Officer of the European Union's diplomatic corps, former Secretary-General of the European Commission and Director General for Trade
• Valerie Plame, former United States CIA Operations Officer
• Ursula Plassnik, former Foreign Minister of Austria, a member of Austrian People's Party (European People's Party)
• Nikola Poposki, Macedonian Minister for Foreign Affairs and former Ambassador of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Macedonia to the European Union
• Xavier Prats Monné, EU official
• Torolf Raa, former Norwegian ambassador
• Carine Van Regenmortel, Belgian corporate lawyer
• Philippe Régnier, Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and the University of Ottawa
• Prince Albert Rohan, former Permanent Secretary of the Austrian Foreign Ministry, UN envoy
• Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Polish member of the European Parliament
• Margaritis Schinas, Greek member of the European Parliament
• György Schöpflin, a Hungarian academic and politician, Member of the European Parliament for Fidesz and the European People's Party
• Guy Spitaels, Belgian politician and Minister-President of Wallonia
• Alexander Stubb, Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs, a member of politician of the National Coalition Party (European People's Party)
• Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Prime Minister of Denmark and leader of the Social Democrats (Denmark)
• Gry Tina Tinde, former Special Adviser to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
• Didrik Tønseth, former Norwegian ambassador
• Count Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff, Austria's ambassador to Prague
• Loukas Tsoukalis, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at the University of Athens and President of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy
• Andrew Tyrie, Member of Parliament (MP) for Chichester and Chairman of the Treasury Select Committee, a member of Conservative Party
• Helmut Türk, judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, former Ambassador of Austria to the United States
• Werner Ungerer, German diplomat, Permanent Representative to the European Communities from 1985 to 1990 and rector of the College from 1990 to 1993
• Robert Verrue, Director-General for Employment of the European Commission
• Alexander Walker, British film critic
• Helen Wallace, Lady Wallace of Saltaire, British expert in European studies and Emeritus Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science
• Bruno de Witte, Professor of EU Law at the European University Institute
• Marc van der Woude, judge at the European Court of Justice
• Adrien Zeller, former French minister in the second Jacques Chirac government (1986–1988), former President of Alsace Regional Council, a member of the Union for a Popular Movement
• Jaap de Zwaan, Dutch diplomat and negotiator of several European treaties, Professor of EU Law at the Erasmus University Rotterdam

Alumni of note of the College of Europe in Natolin, Poland (from 1993) include:

• Alyn Smith, Scottish member of the European Parliament