The Committee

Our high-level committee consists of representatives of public, civil, political, and scientific institutions. Comprising a broad expertise, this committee will annually identify currently relevant topics of the public and political debate on the future of Europe and evaluate the conception of the submitted research proposals with regard to the selection of our Charlemagne Prize Fellows.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Prefi

Chairman of the Charlemagne Prize Foundation Board

Dr. Jürgen Linden

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Charlemagne Prize Society

Prof. Dr. Christine Neuhold

Head of the Department of Political Science at Maastricht University

Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Malte Brettel

Vice-Rector for Industry and Business Relations at RWTH Aachen

Dr. Victor Mauer

Head of Unit - Policy Issues, State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

Patrizia Heidegger

Deputy Secretary General of the European Environmental Bureau (EEB)

Karl-Heinz Lambertz

President of the Parliament of the German-speaking Community of Belgium

Dr. Georgios Kolliarakis

Advisor for Research Strategy at DGAP, Berlin

Elmar Brok

Former Member of the European Parliament

Dr. Randy K. Avent

Founding President of Florida Polytechnic University