KeynoteFRANS TIMMERMANS
European Commission Executive Vice President for the European Green Deal
First Vice-President of the European Commission, in charge of Better Regulation, Inter-Institutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights 2014-2019
Minister of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands 2012-2014
Member of the Dutch parliament, Partij van de Arbeid (Dutch Labour Party)
2010-2012 and 1998-2007
Minister of European Affairs, The Netherlands
2007-2010
Senior Advisor and Private Secretary to High Commissioner on National Minorities of the OSCE Max van der Stoel
1995-1998
Staff member of EU Commissioner Hans van den Broek
1994-1995
Deputy Head of the EC Affairs Section, Directorate-General for Development Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs., The Netherlands
1993-1994
Second Secretary, Dutch embassy in Moscow
1990-1993
Policy Officer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands
1987-1990
Postgraduate courses in European Law and French Literature, University of Nancy
1984-1985
Degree in French language and literature, Radboud University Nijmegen
1980-1985