- Distinguished Fellow -

Renee Haferkamp (Belgium)
Distinguished Emile Noel Fellow, NYU Law

Former Director General of the European Commission

Renee Haferkamp has participated in all the important milestones in the development of the European Union, from the period of Paul-Henri Spaak and Jean Monnet to Jacques Delors and Romano Prodi. She has been a lecturer at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne and visiting professor at a number of other European universities; a fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard in 1994; a Fulbright Scholar at the William Fulbright College of Arts, University of Arkansas, in 1996; and a European Scholar at the University of Massachusetts in 1998, as well as an Emile Noel fellow at Harvard Law School in 1998 and 1999. In 2000 and 2001, Haferkamp has been a Senior Associate at the European Union Center at Harvard University where she organized the lecture series "Visions for European Governance/EU Agenda Seminar," co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Business School. During the present spring term 2002, she is an Emile Noel Senior Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center, NYU School of Law and organizes in cooperation with Professors Joseph Weiler and Martin Schain the Seminar "The Futures of Europe: Ideas, Ideals and Those Who Make Them Happen" held under the auspices of that institution. The invited guest in the opening session on February 6, 2002 was President Clinton.

Her interests and lectures focus on the history and future developments of the European Union.