Jean-Claude Trichet
Jean-Claude Trichet was President of the European Central Bank from 2003 to 2011. He previously was Governor of the Banque de France (1993-2003) and Undersecretary of the French Treasury (1987- 1993). He was elected chairman of the French “Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques” (2023). He is honorary chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bruegel Institute (Brussels), honorary chairman of the Group of Thirty (Washington), and former European chairman of the Trilateral Commission.

Born in Lyon in 1942, Jean-Claude Trichet is an honorary inspecteur général des Finances and ingénieur civil des Mines. He is a graduate of the Institut d’études politiques de Paris, of the Université de Paris (in economics), and of the École Nationale d’Administration.

H.E. Michael Starbaek Christensen
His Excellency Michael Starbæk Christensen has been the Ambassador of Denmark to France since 2019. He is a distinguished diplomat with previous experience as the Diplomatic Adviser and European Union Sherpa to the Danish Prime Minister, the Political Director and Director for Global Security at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Copenhagen, and Deputy Head of Cabinet (Commissioner for Climate Change) at the European Commission. Ambassador Christensen received a Master of Law from the University of Copenhagen in 1993 and a Master in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School in 2004.

Lukáš Macek
Lukáš Macek has been Director of the Sciences Po Paris European campus in Dijon since 2004. He is also Head of the Centre Grande Europe and Research Fellow, Central and Eastern Europe, at the Institut Jacques Delors, the European think tank founded by Jacques Delors in 1996.

After studying in France (Lycée Carnot in Dijon, Sciences Po), he worked in the Czech Republic as a parliamentary attaché and political adviser specializing in European affairs, notably for Mr Josef Zieleniec, Senator and former Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Lukáš Macek followed the work of the Convention on the Future of Europe as secretary of the Czech Senate delegation. He was actively involved in the political campaigns linked to the Czech Republic’s accession to the European Union as well as in the European elections of 2004 and 2009. In 2008, he was an advisor to Jan Svejnar, candidate for the presidency of the Czech Republic.

A teaching assistant at New York University in Prague (2001-2004), he also taught at Charles University in Prague. Since 2004, he has taught “Introduction to European Union Affairs” at Sciences Po. He is the author and co-author of numerous articles and studies on European issues, including L’élargissement met-il en péril le projet européen ? (Documentation française, 2011).