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Rethinking the Cyprus Problem: A European Approach
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Dr. Michael Attalides Dr. Michael Attalides is the Acting Rector of Intercollege, Nicosia, Cyprus. He has been a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leicester, a counterpart to the UNESCO Expert at the Cyprus Social Research Centre and a Guest Lecturer at the Free University of Berlin. He has represented the Republic of Cyprus as its Ambassador in a number of capitals, including Paris, London, and the European Union in Brussels, before being appointed Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has also represented the Cyprus Government in the European Convention. His books include Cyprus: Nationalism and International Politics and Social Change and Urbanisation in Cyprus. He has published a number of articles on society and politics in Cyprus. |
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Dr. Christopher Brewin Dr. Christopher Brewin is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Keele University and has been a visiting Professor at Marmara University, Istanbul five times. He is a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Catham House, and the International Advisory Board of the Review of International Law and Politics where he wrote the Annual Review of the institutions and policies of the European Community for ten years. The Leverhulme Foundation is funding his current project on Turkey and the European Union, a sequel to his 2000 work The European Union and Cyprus. |
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Professor Vincenzo Cannizzaro Dr. Vincenzo Cannizzaro is a full professor of International Law and European Union Law at the University of Macerata, Italy and has been a visiting fellow in a number of prestigious international institutions. His academic work has focused primarily on general aspects of international law and European Union law, and he has written extensively in both fields. He recently edited two books in English: The European Union as an Actor in International Relations and International Customary Law on the Use of Force: A Methodological Perspective. Other areas of interest include international law in municipal legal orders, the theory of sources in international law and the constitutionalization process in Europe. Apart from Italian, his first language, he also works in English, French, and German. |
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Dr. Van Coufoudakis Dr. Van Coufoudakis is currently the Rector at Intercollege, Cyprus, and also serves as Dean Emeritus of the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne. Dr. Van Coufoudakis was a member of the Graduate Faculty of Indiana University and from 1986 to 1995 served as Assistant Vice Chancellor and later Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. His research focuses on the politics and foreign policies of Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus as well as post-World War II U.S. foreign and defense policy with particular emphasis on Southeastern Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East. His latest book, edited in collaboration with Eugene T. Rossides, is The United States and Cyprus – Double Standards and the Rules of Law. |
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Ms. Raquel de Vicente Since 2004, Ms. Raquel de Vicente has served as Administrator in the European Parliament, Directorate General Internal Policies and Directorate E: Legislative Coordination Service. Prior to this position, Ms. de Vicente worked in the cabinet of the Spanish President José María Anzar in the International and Security Department and was a leading source on relations with Europe and the EU. Ms. de Vicente served as advisor to the President of the European Parliament from 1999-2003, during which time she worked on the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market, Committee on Regional Policy, the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Forum, and relations with Spain and Portugal. In her current position, Ms. de Vicente monitors an assortment of issues facing European Parliament parliamentary committees and is responsible for the organization and follow-up of the activities of the High-level Contact Group for relations with the Turkish-Cypriot community in the northern part of the island. |
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Professor Alfred de Zayas Dr. Alfred de Zayas worked as a lawyer for the United Nations for 22 years and served as Secretary of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, Deputy Chief of the Communications Branch and Chief of the Petitions Section. He served as a senior fellow at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg and was a member of the editorial committee of the Encyclopedia of Public International Law. He has been a visiting professor of international law at numerous universities in the U.S. and Europe and from 1990-2005 Dr. de Zayas was President of the UN Society of Writers and remains Editor-in-Chief of the UN literary journal Ex Tempore. Following his long tenure as Secretary-General of PEN International, Dr. Zayas was elected President in 2006. In addition, he is the author of five books, including Nemesis at Potsdam and A Terrible Revenge. |
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Ambassador Nicholas Emiliou Ambassador Nicholas Emilou currently serves as the Permanent Representative of Cyprus to the European Union in Brussels. In 2000 he was promoted to the rank of Ambassador of Cyprus after serving as Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary of the Republic of Cyprus in Ireland and Deputy Permanent Delegate of Cyprus to the European Union in Brussels. Ambassador Emilou has held numerous academic appointments, including Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Law of the European Union, University of College London and Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration at the University of Durham. Dr. Emiliou currently serves as a member on the Panel of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague, and served as a Delegate of the Government Agent in cases before the European Court of Human Rights from 2002-2004. Dr. Emiliou joined with David O'Keeffe in editing Legal Aspects of Integration in the European Union in 1997 and The European Union and World Trade Law after the GATT Uruguay Round in 1996. He is also the author of numerous academic articles on issues of European community, public international law, and public law. |
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Ambassador Marios Lysiotis Mr. Lysiotis is the Deputy Director of the Diplomatic Office of the President of the Republic of Cyprus and has been the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Cyprus to the Council of Europe since 2004. Prior to these positions, Mr. Lysiotis was a member of the Diplomatic Office of the President of the Republic of Cyprus from 2003-2004 and served in the Ministry of Fereign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus from 2001-2003. Additionally, Mr. Lysiotis served from 1997-2001 in the Permanent Delegation of the Republic of Cyprus to the European Union and spent three years in the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus in Stockholm. He also served as Diplomatic Advisor to the President of the Republic of Cyprus in the Presidential Palace from 1991-1993. |
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Ambassador Andreas Mavroyiannis Since 2003, Ambassador Andreas Mavroyiannis has served as Permanent Representative of Cyprus to the UN and Chairman of the UN Committee on Relations with the host country. From 1997-1999 he served as Ambassador of Cyprus to Ireland and from 1999-2002 he posted in Paris as Ambassador of Cyprus to France. Concurrently, he was accredited as non-Resident Ambassador of Cyprus to the Principality of Andorra, to the Republic of Tunisia, and to the Kingdom of Morocco. He has given lectures at the Cyprus Mediterranean Institute of Management, the Cyprus Academy for Public Administration and the Law School of the University of Athens and has been a member of the negotiating team of the Greek Cypriot side in the bi-communal talks for the solution of the Cyprus problem since 2003. Additionally, he is currently accredited as High Commissioner of Cyprus to Saint Lucia. He has contributed several articles on the topics of sociology, law, philosophy, political science and EU matters. |
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Dr. Christopher McCrudden Dr. Christopher McCrudden has been a fellow of the Lincoln College since 1980 and is currently a Professor in Human Rights Law in the University. His main interests are in the fields of constitutional, administrative, and comparative public law, with particular specialization in human rights law. Currently, he is working on aspects of the relationship between regulation and human rights and has publications forthcoming on the use of public procurement for social purposes, regulatory developments in British law, and human rights in Northern Ireland. He has served on several governmental committees, including the Northern Ireland Standing Advisory Commission on Human Rights and the European Commission's group of legal experts on equality law. Dr. McCrudden is also a member of the editorial board of several scholarly publications, including the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and Butterworths' Law in Context series. |
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Dr. Dietmar Nickel Dr. Dietmar Nickel has been the Director General for External Policies of the European Parliament since 2004. Prior to this position, Dr. Nickel served the European Parliament in various capacities including Co-Secretary-General of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, Director in Directorate General for committees and delegations, and Deputy Director of the private office of the President of the European Parliament. During his tenure at the Secretariat-General of the European Parliament since 1978, Dr. Nickel served on numerous committees including the Committee on Energy, Research and Technology; the Committee on Economic Recovery; the Committee on Legal Affairs and Citizens' Rights; and the Committee on the Rules of Procedure and Verification of Credentials and Immunities. In 1990 Dr. Nickel served as Head of Division of Committee on Institutional Affairs. Publications include Le Parlement européen and various articles in scholarly journals in German, English, and French on the protection of human rights, energy law in the framework of the Euratom Treaty, the Maastricht Treaty and other institutional matters. |
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Dr. Michael Alexander Rupp Since 2000, Dr. Michael Alexander Rupp is Administrator at the European Parliament Committee for Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Security and Defense Policy. Dr. Rupp worked as a Scientific Assistant at the University of Heidelberg before becoming a graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Hull and then Research Officer and Teaching Assistant at the Centre for European Studies at the University of Leeds. In 1997, he joined the European Commission in the Directorate General for Enlargement. He has been frequently published, with works including Studying European Integration and The Turkish European Union Accession Process: Effects of Harmonization of Legislation on Economic, Political and Social Life. |
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Professor Andrea Simoncini Dr. Andrea Simoncini is a professor of constitutional law at the University of Macerata, Italy. Since 1994 he has been a member of the International Commission on Environmental Law of the International Union for Nature Conservation and since 1995 he has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the Regional Park of Migliorino, San Rossore and Massaciuccoli. Since 2000, Dr. Simoncini has been a professor of Environmental Law at the University of Florence, Faculty of Economics and Faculty of Agriculture. From 2002-2003, Dr. Simoncini served as an Assistant Clerk at the Constitutional Supreme Court of Italy and in December 2002 he was appointed Ordinary (Full) Professor of Constitutional Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Macerata. In 2004, Dr. Simoncini was appointed as University Delegate for International Relationships by the Rector of the University of Macerata. |
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Demetris K. Syllouris Mr. Demetris Syllouris has served as a Member of Parliament for four consecutive terms since 1991. During this time he has also been the Parliamentary Leader of the Democratic Rally; a member and then Deputy President of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs; Vice President of the Joint Parliamentary Committee Cyprus-EU; member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Secuirty and Defense Policy; member of the Conference of Community and European Affairs Committees of Parliaments of the European Union (COSAC); and member of the Committee on Economic and Financial Issues, Social Affairs and Education of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly. In addition to his parliamentary activities, Mr. Syllouris holds a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering and is a member of the Association for Project Management, UK; the Cyprus Association of Architects and Civil Engineers; and the Technical Chamber of Cyprus. |
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Dr. Nathalie Tocci Dr. Nathalie Tocci is a Marie Curie Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute and an associate senior fellow at the Istituto Affari Internazionali. Her research interests include European foreign policy, conflict resolution, the Middle East and the Mediterranean. Dr. Tocci's recent publications include EU Accession Dynamics and Conflict Resolution: Catalyzing Peace or Consolidating Partition in Cyprus?, Towards Accession Negotiations: Turkey's Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges Ahead and Europeanization and Conflict Resolution: Case Studies from the Divided Periphery. |
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Professor J.H.H. Weiler Professor Joseph Weiler is the Faculty Director of the Hauser Global Law School Program and Director of the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice at NYU School of Law. He is a Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium and Natolin, Poland; Honorary Professor at University College, London; Honorary Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen; and Co-Director of the Academy of International Trade Law in Macao, China. From 1978 to 1985 he was member of the Department of Law at the European University Institute, Florence, where he later co-founded the Academy of European Law. He served as Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School from 1985-1992 and as Manley Hudson Professor and Jean Monnet Chair at Harvard Law School from 1992-2001. Currently, Dr. Weiler is a Council Member of the Centre for European Economic and Public Affairs, University College, Dublin; Member of the Board of the Centre for the Law of the European Union at University College, London; Member of the International Advisory Board, Queen's University, Belfast; and Member of the Advisory Council of the Interdisciplinary University Center, Herzelia, Israel. Dr. Weiler is a WTO Panel Member and the founding editor of the European Journal of International Law, European Law Journal and World Trade Review. He is the author of numerous publications in the fields of international, comparative and European law. |
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Mr. Georg Ziegler Mr. Ziegler has served as a member of the Cyprus Team in the European Commission since 2003. Before this position, Mr. Ziegler was the Deputy Head of Unit of EU External Relations and EU Enlargement, WTO in the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs for a year. He served as a Task manager of European and Internal Legal Affairs in the Federal Ministry of Labor from 2000-2002 and served for two years as Task manager of International Labor Market Policy from 1995-1997. Additionally, Mr. Ziegler was the Social Policy Counselor at the German Embassy in Warsaw from 1990-1995. |
