President
Peter Mandelson - Former UK first secretary of state, business secretary and EU Trade commissioner
Chair
Roger Liddle - Roger is Labour’s front bench spokesperson on Europe in the House of Lords. He chairs Policy Network, the international progressive think tank, and is a Director of the University of Cumbria.
From 2009-2010, Roger chaired the government’s New Industry, New Jobs advisory panel in the Department of Business Innovation and Skills. From 2007 to 2010 he also chaired Cumbria Vision, the sub-regional economic development partnership in his home County.
He was for seven years from 1997 special adviser on European affairs to the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair. From 2004-2007 he served in the European Commission, first in the Cabinet of the EU Trade Commissioner and then as economic adviser to the European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.
Roger has written extensively on European and British affairs, including The Blair Revolution (with Peter Mandelson, 1996), Global Europe, Social Europe (with Anthony Giddens and Patrick Diamond, 2006) and Beyond New Labour (with Patrick Diamond, 2009), as well as several other Fabian Society and Policy Network pamphlets.
He also co-authored two papers for the President of the Commission’s thinktank, the Bureau of European Policy Advisers, on “Europe’s Social Reality” (February 2007) and the “Single Market: Yesterday and Tomorrow” (July 2006), and since then has contributed to various edited collections on the Single Market, the social challenges facing Europe, the case for a social investment strategy and Britain’s European policy.
Board members
Stephen Beer - Senior fund manager, central finance board of the Methodist Church and author of 'Credibility Deficit - how to rebuild Labour's economic reputation'
Matt Browne - Fellow at the Centre for American Progress. Previously, director of public affairs in APCO Worldwide’s London office
Liam Byrne - Labour member of parliament for Birmingham Hodge Hill and shadow secretary of state for work and pensions.
Patrick Diamond - Senior research fellow at Policy Network and
former head of long-term policy in the UK Prime Minister's Office, 10
Downing Street. Formerly group director of policy at the Equality and
Human Rights Commission.
Susan Hitch - Manager of Lord Sainsbury of Turville's pro bono
programme and a Governor of the Institute for Government and a board
member of Centre for Cities, Progress and the Centre for European
Reform.
Jürgen Krönig - UK correspondent for the German weekly DIE ZEIT
and freelance author for various publications and TV in Germany,
Switzerland and Britain.
Vicky Pryce - Former joint head of the UK Government Economic Service and senior managing director at FTI Consulting
Giles Radice - Labour member of the House of Lords. Formerly,
Labour member of parliament representing Durham North from 1972 until
his retirement in 2001.
Tibor Szanyi - Socialist member of the Hungarian parliament
and former political state secretary in the ministry of agriculture and
rural development and former political state secretary for foreign
economic affairs in the ministry of economy and transport.
Loukas Tsoukalis - President of the Hellenic Foundation for
european and foreign policy (ELIAMEP) and special adviser to Jose Manuel
Barroso, President of the European Commission.