For the first time we are honoured to have a Luxembourgish lecturer

His Excellency President Jean-Claude Juncker

who will speak on

"A Changing Europe: Full Circle?"

Jean-Claude Juncker was born in 1954 in Luxembourg. He studied law in Strasbourg and in 1974 he joined Luxembourg’s Christian Social People's Party (CSV – EPP family).

Jean-Claude Juncker served in many governmental posts, most visible as Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1995-2013), as the President of the Euro Group (2004-2013) and from 2014 to 2019 as President of the European Commission.
By the time Juncker left office, he was the longest-serving head of any national government in the EU and one of the longest-serving democratically elected leaders in the world, with his tenure encompassing the introduction of the EURO, the European financial and sovereign debt crisis, the migration crisis in 2015 and Brexit.

President of the European Commission 2014 - 2019
President of the Euro Group 2004 - 2013
Prime Minister of Luxembourg 1995 - 2013
Prime Minister, Minister of State, Minister for the Treasury July 2009 - 2013
Prime Minister, Minister of State and Minister for Finance 1999 - 2009 
Prime Minister, Minister of State, Minister for Finance,
Minister for Labour and Employment 1995 - 1999
Minister for Finance and Minister for Labour 1994 - 1995
Minister for Finance, Minister for Labour 1989 - 1994
Minister for Labour, Minister Delegate for the Budget 1984 - 1989 
State Secretary for Labour and Social Security 1982 - 1984

Introductions
Louise Benjamin, President of the British-Luxembourg Society
HE Ms Fleur Thomas, British Ambassador to Luxembourg
Guy Dockendorf, Fondation Nationale de la Résistance
Patrick Santer, Patron of the British Luxembourg Society

Facilitator
Hubert Wurth, Patron of the British Luxembourg Society
 

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We wish to thank the Abbaye de Neumünster and FONARES
and our sponsor HSBC Continental Europe, Luxembourg for their generosity