The European Board

An economist by training, I  graduated from the University of Milan-Bicocca (summa cum laude) and obtained a Masters-level degree from the European College of Parma. Thanks to some scholarships and by working aside, I had the opportunity support my studies towards a PhD in international studies form the University of Cambridge and to research in the USA (Columbia University) and in China (Renmin University).

As I believe that we can improve Europe also “from the inside”, I currently work for the European Commission where I manage cooperation programmes with third countries. In the past I worked for the Chamber of Commerce of Milan, for a Multinational Company in Shanghai, for the European Central Bank and for the EU Institute for Security Studies.

At the same time, a lot can only be changed “from the outside” by engaging with Europeans directly. For this reason I am actively involved in politics as one of the co-founders and President of the European Federalist Party. In this capacity I stood as an MEP candidate in Belgium with our list Stand Up for the United States of Europe at the latest European Elections and I was elected vice-President of the movement Stand Up for Europe emerged from the merging process of the European Federalist Party, Stand Up for the United States of Europe and USE Now!

As Europe is diversity, I speak Italian, English, French, Spanish and Chinese.  To see what I am up to you can follow me on Twitter and on Facebook!

He is a member of the French section of the party since the announcement of the union between the Federalist Party (Sep. 2011), whose activities he followed, and Europe United. So he participated in the founding convention of the European Federalist Party on November 6th, 2011. He was then a candidate for the party for the French general elections of 2012 to establish the name of the party in the political landscape.

He has been Secretary General of the French section since December 2013. He held the participation of the party for the 2014 European elections in all French constituencies. We were the only party without financial resource who successfully proposed candidatures in all French constituencies (153 candidates).

Professionally, he is a project leader in industry, having worked mostly outside his own country (especially Germany, Italy, Finland, Hungary, Romania, and some non-European countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, China).

Multilingual professional specialised in international commerce with experience in global marketing, corporate communications and European business development seeking to specialise in international business management. Focused on digitalisation strategy for companies involved in international trade, financial services and insurance.

Between 1996 and 2003, he has been Ambassador for the European Union in South east Asia ( Bangkok, accredited in 5 countries ), then in south Asia ( New Dehli, accredited in 5 countries ). During that period, intensive tasks of promoting European integration and image in various country of Asia, and coordination of the activities of Member states. He then has been representative of the Commission to the COPS ( Ambassadors meetings foreign policy and common security, and European security and defense policy, and Ambassador representative of the European Commission to the “Council of Europe” (Strasbourg). He retired from the European Commission in 2007, to create and manage a fair trade activity in Provence (Lourmarin and Aix en Provence).

A committed federalist, he joined the French section or the European Federalist Party last February 2014 and stood as an MEP candidate in the last European elections.

Fernanda Neutel holds a PhD from Leeds University – United Kingdom- in Political Science/ European Studies and a Master degree in Modern International Studies from the same University. She has been a Faculty member in the Department of Politics and International Relations-University Lusófona- Lisbon (Portugal) since 1998. From October 2011 to July 2012 she was deputy director for the BA degree in European Studies and, from July 2012 to January 2013, course director.

Balint and Benjamin are the leading organisers of the “Cercle Stand Up-EFP”at the Université Saint Luis in Brussels and are working for the development of similar organisations in other universities.

Tristan currently involved in the Belgian section of the EFP and will be working on the development of “Universities Circles” in French Universities, starting with Sciences-Po in Paris.