The College of Europe welcomes high level speakers to both of its campuses, many of whom take this opportunity to further the European debate. Conferences and seminars are organized throughout the year, allowing practitioners and students to part take into critical dialogue and engage in direct exchanges of views over issues affecting European integration and international relations.

Selected speakers of the academic year 2015-2016 included in alphabetical order:

Mr K. A. ANEV JANSE, Secretary General of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM); and Mrs S. DE BEULE-ROLOFF, Head of Human Resources at ESM Mr Bart DE SMET, CEO, AGEAS Mr Nikolaas BAECKELMANS, Vice President, EU Affairs, ExxonMobil H.E. Ambassador Anthony L. GARDNER, Embassy of the United States in Brussels Mr Johannes HAHN, Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Mrs Anne HOUTMAN, Adviser to the Director-General, DG ENER, European Commission H.E. Ambassador Masafumi ISHII, Embassy of Japan Mr Jo LEINEN, Member of the European Parliament Mr Yves KNOCKAERT, Musicologist, Author and Composer M. Emmanuel MACRON, Ministre français de l’Economie, de l’Industrie et du Numérique Mrs Cecilia MALMSTRÖM, European Commissioner for Trade Ambassador Thomas MAYR-HARTING, European External Action Service, Former Head of the EU Delegation to the United Nations in New York (2011-2015) M. Pierre MOSCOVICI, Commissaire européen aux affaires économiques et financières, la fiscalité et les douanes Mr Tibor NAVRACSICS, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport H.E. Mr Edi RAMA, Prime Minister of Albania Mr Didier REYNDERS, Belgian Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Policy and European Affairs H.E. Mr Gilbert SABOYA SUNYE, Minister of foreign Affairs of AndorraProfessor Enrico ALBANESI, University of Genoa and currently visiting scholar at the College of Europe Professor Jamie SHEA, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, NATO; Lecturer in various Universities in Europe and in the USA Mrs Cihan SULTANOĞLU, UN Assistant Secretary-General and UNDP Regional Director for Europea and the Commonwealth of Independent States Mr Alexander STUBB, Minister of Finance of Finland Dr. Ian WALDEN, Professor of Information and Communications Law, Head of the Institute of Computer and Communications Law, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary Univeristy of London H.E. Ambassador David WALTZER, Israeli Ambassador to the EU and NATO Mr Thomas WESTPHAL, Director-General for European Policy, German Federal Ministry of Finance. Dr. Charles WYPLOSZ, Professor of International Economics and Director of International Centre for Money and Banking Studies, Graduate Institute, Geneva