Thursday, May 31 2012, 6:30pm - 8:00pm
IWM Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen
Institute for Human Sciences
Spittelauer Lände 3
A-1090 Wien
T: +43/1/ 313 58
http://www.iwm.at
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Kristalina Georgieva
Humanitarian crisis response: The EU's role and responsibility[/size]
Political Salon
The EU-Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response will discuss the role of the European Union as the largest supplier of humanitarian aid in the world, and the challenges that current world developments present to that role.
Kristalina Georgieva is the current EU-Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response. A Bulgarian citizen, economist by education and politician by calling, before taking the post of the EU Commissioner, she was a Vice President and Corporate Secretary of the World Bank Group.
Discussants:
János Mátyás Kovács
Permanent Fellow, IWM; External Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest
Christian Ultsch
Head of the Foreign Politics Department of Die Presse
In cooperation with Die Presse and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance
Free of charge, please register at events@iwm.at