- Viviane Reding
Viviane Reding European Union Commissioner for Information Society and Media
- Benita Ferrero-Waldner
Benita Ferrero-Waldner is the European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy and an Austrian diplomat and politician. She is a member of the conservative Austrian People's Party (ÖVP).
- Louis Michel
Mr. Louis Michel , European Union Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid
- Peter Mandelson
Peter Benjamin Mandelson (born 21 October 1953) is the current British Commissioner of the European Union for Trade. Before taking this post, he was a British Labour politician, and served as Member of Parliament for Hartlepool for twelve years. He is widely regarded as one of the main architects of the modern Labour Party and its rebranding as "New Labour". He twice resigned from the cabinet of Tony Blair's government.
- Neelie Kroes
Neelie Kroes (born July 19, 1941 in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland) is a Dutch politician and businessperson. Neelie Kroes was a Member of Parliament in the Netherlands for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). Later she was the Dutch State Secretary and Minister of Transport and Water Management. Neelie Kroes was member of the board of commissioners of several multinationals. She currently is the Dutch European Commissioner for Competition.
- Franco Frattini
Franco Frattini (born 14 March 1957) is an Italian politician, currently serving as European Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security. He is also one of five vice-presidents of the 27-member Barroso Commission.
- Chris Patten
Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, CH, PC (born 12 May 1944 in Bath, Somerset) is a prominent British Conservative politician and a Patron of the Tory Reform Group. He was a Member of Parliament, eventually rising to a cabinet minister and party chairman. In the latter capacity, he orchestrated the Conservatives' unexpected fourth consecutive electoral victory in 1992, but lost his own seat in the House of Commons.
- José Manuel Barroso
José Manuel Durão Barroso, GCC (born in Lisbon, March 23, 1956) is a Portuguese politician and the 11th President of the European Commission. He served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 6 April 2002 until 29 June 2004, when he resigned to become President-designate of the European Commission. The appointment was formally endorsed by the European Parliament on July 22, and he was due to take over officially from Romano Prodi on 1 November 2004.
- Stavros Dimas
Stavros Dimas is a Greek politician, currently serving as European Commissioner for the Environment.
- Olli Rehn
Olli Ilmari Rehn (born 31 March 1962) is a Finnish politician, currently serving as European Commissioner for Enlargement.
- Danuta Hübner
Danuta Hübner is a Polish economist, academic, and policy maker, currently serving as European Commissioner for Regional Policy.
- David Byrne
David Byrne (born 6 April 1947) is an Irish senior counsel, former Attorney-General of Ireland and former EU Commissioner. In December 2006 Byrne was appointed as Chancellor of Dublin City University. Byrne was educated at Newbridge College, Co. Kildare, University College Dublin and King's Inns, Dublin. He was called to the Bar in 1970 and practised law in the Irish and European Courts. During his student days in Dublin, he founded the Free Legal Advice Centre, …
- Andris Piebalgs
Andris Piebalgs (born 17 September 1957) is a Latvian politician and diplomat, currently serving as European Commissioner for Energy.
- Janez Potočnik
Janez Potočnik (born 22 March 1958) is a Slovenian politician, currently serving as European Commissioner for Science and Research. He was formerly Slovenia's Minister for European Affairs. He served as Assistant Director (1984-1987) and Director (1993-2001) at the Institute of Macroeconomic Analysis and Development in Ljubljana. In 1993 he got his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Ljubljana.
- Leonard Orban
Leonard Orban (born June 28, 1961) is a Romanian independent technocrat who currently serves as the Commissioner for Multilingualism in the European Commission, the executive body of the European Union (EU). He is responsible for the EU language policy and is the first Romanian Commissioner and the first member of the Commission whose portfolio is exclusively multilingualism. His term of office began on January 1, 2007 and will end on October 31, 2009.
- Pascal Lamy
Pascal Lamy (born 8 April 1947) is the Director-General of the World Trade Organization, a French political advisor, a businessman, and a former European Commissioner for Trade. Born in Levallois-Perret, a suburb of Paris, he attended the HEC business school, the "Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po)", and then the civil service college, the ENA, graduating second in his year of those specialising in economics.
- Margot Wallström
Margot Elisabeth Wallström (born 28 September 1954 in Skellefteå) is a Swedish Social Democratic politician, currently serving as European Commissioner for Institutional Relations and Communication Strategy. She is also the first of five vice-presidents of the 27-member Barroso Commission.
- Mariann Fischer Boel
Mariann Fischer Boel is a Danish politician, currently serving as European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development. A member of the party Venstre, she had previously been minister of agriculture and foods since 2002, in the government of Anders Fogh Rasmussen. As the Danish agriculture minister, she argued that it would be better if agricultural subsidies were entirely removed, a view that in many European countries is highly controversial.
- Joe Borg
Joseph Borg (born 19 March 1952) is a Maltese politician and diplomat, associated with the Nationalist Party (the political party currently in government). He was instrumental in the process which led to Malta becoming a member of the European Union in 2004. He was the advisor to the foreign minister on European Union matters from 1989 until 1995, a member of the board of directors of the Maltese Central Bank from 1992 until 1995, and a member of parliament since 1995.
- Meglena Kuneva
Meglena Shtilianova Kuneva (born 22 June 1957) is a Bulgarian and EU politician. Born in Sofia, Kuneva graduated in Law from Sofia University in 1981. In 1984 she became a Doctor of Law. She worked as a journalist for the Law Programme of the Bulgarian National Radio while being an Assistant Professor at Sofia University. In 1990 she took a job as Senior Legal Advisor at the Council of Ministers and held it until 2001.
- Erkki Liikanen
Erkki Liikanen has been Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Finland since 12 July 2004. He is also Member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (2004–) and Governor of the International Monetary Fund for Finland (2004–). Earlier in his career he was the first Finnish Member of the European Commission. Erkki Liikanen has a Masters degree in Political Science (Economics) from the University of Helsinki in 1975.
- Markos Kyprianou
Markos Kyprianou {pronounced) (born 22 January 1960 in Limassol) is a Cypriot politician, currently serving as European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection. A member of the Democratic Party, he was formerly Cyprus's finance minister. He studied Law at the Law School of the University of Athens and at Trinity College, Cambridge University, where he specialised in International Law and Tax Law and was awarded a Master’s degree in Law (LLM).
- Jacques Barrot
Jacques Barrot (born 3 February 1937 in Yssingeaux, Haute-Loire) is a French politician, currently serving as European Commissioner for Transport. He is also one of five vice-presidents of the 27-member Barroso Commission. He previously held various ministerial positions in France, and is a member of the right-wing political party UMP. Barrot has been a European Commissioner since April 2004, …
- Günter Verheugen
Günter Verheugen is a German politician, currently serving as European Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry. He is also one of five vice-presidents of the 27-member Barroso Commission. Günter Verheugen was previously Commissioner for Enlargement in the Prodi Commission, presiding over the accession of ten new member states in 2004. Verheugen studied history, sociology and political science at the University of Cologne and at the University of Bonn.
- Mario Monti
Mario Monti (born March 19, 1943) is an Italian economist and politician
- Frits Bolkestein
Frits Bolkestein (The Netherlands) is Professor of Intellectual Foundations of Political Developments at the Universities of Leiden and Delft (NL). He is former Member of the European Commission for the Internal Market (1999-2004), former Dutch Minister of Defence, former Minister of Foreign Trade and former Director of Shell Chimie, Paris.
- Joaquín Almunia
Joaquín Almunia is a Spanish politician and member of the European Commission responsible for Economic and Monetary Affairs. Born in Bilbao, he is married and has two children. He graduated in Law and Economics at the University of Deusto, and completed follow-up studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris and the “Senior managers in Government” program at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
- Vladimír Špidla
Vladimír Špidla (born April 21 1951 in Prague) is a Czech social democratic politician. He was the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic in July 2002 - June 2004 and then was appointed Czech commissioner in the European Commission where he will serve at the post of employment, social affairs and equal opportunities. Špidla studied history at Charles University of Prague.
- Michel Barnier
Michel Barnier is a conservative French politician. Michel Barnier was born in La Tronche in the Isère "département" of the Rhône-Alpes "région", in France. He graduated from the École supérieure de commerce de Paris in 1972. He was elected to the House of Representatives as a deputy for the Savoie in 1978 and served in this function until 1993.
- Anna Diamantopoulou
Anna Diamantopoulou, born 1959 in Kozani, Greece), is a Member of Parliament in Greece for the main opposition party, the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK). She is also a former EU Commissioner, for Employment and Social Affairs, in the Prodi Commission, a post she held between 1999-2004. A civil engineer by training, Diamantopoulou's political career began early. As one of the youngest Prefects in Greek history, …
- Franz Fischler
Franz Fischler (born September 23, 1946) is an Austrian politician. He was the European Union's Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries (1995-2004). Born in Absam, Tyrol he studied agriculture at the University of Agricultural Sciences, Vienna, and finished as Dr rer.nat.oec. in 1978. He worked as University assistant from 1973 to 1979, then for the Tyrol Chamber of Agriculture, finally as its director from 1985 to 1989.
- Emma Bonino
Ms. Emma Bonino has been a Member of the European Union Commission since 1995 and is responsible for Fisheries, Consumers' Policy, Humanitarian Affairs, and Consumers' Health and Food Safety. Prior to this position, Ms. Bonino served as Secretary (1993-1994) and Chair (1991-1993) of the Italian transnational Radical Party.
- Neil Kinnock
Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock, PC (born 28 March 1942) is a British politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1970 to 1995, and was Leader of the Opposition and Labour Party leader from 1983 to 1992, when he resigned after the 1992 general election defeat. He subsequently served as a UK Commissioner of the European Commission from 1995 until 2004, and is now Chair of the British Council. He is also President of Cardiff University.
- Siim Kallas
Siim Kallas (born 2 October 1948 in Tallinn) is an Estonian politician, currently serving as European Commissioner for Administrative Affairs, Audit and Anti-Fraud. He is also one of five vice-presidents of the 27-member Barroso Commission. Kallas has been Prime Minister of Estonia, Estonian Minister of Finance, Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs, and member of the Riigikogu. Kallas is a member and former leader of the free-market liberal Estonian Reform Party.
- Loyola de Palacio
Ignacia de Loyola de Palacio y del Valle Lersundi was a Spanish politician. She was one of the first women to rise to political prominence in Spain after the death of General Franco. She was a minister in the Spanish government from 1996 to 1998, and a member of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004. Her sister, Ana Palacio, was Foreign Minister of Spain from 2002 to 2004, and is vice president of the World Bank.
- Rocco Buttiglione
Rocco Buttiglione is an Italian Christian Democrat politician and an academic philosopher. His being proposed as a European Commissioner resulted in controversy, as some political groups opposed him for his conservative views on homosexuality and women, despite his assurances that these were only his personal convictions and would not dictate his administration. He is a Professor of political science at Saint Pius V University in Rome, …
- László Kovács
László Kovács (born 3 July 1939 in Budapest) is a Hungarian politician and diplomat, currently serving as European Commissioner for Taxation and Customs Union. He was the foreign minister of Hungary twice, from 1994 to 1998 and from 2002 to 2004. He also served as chairman of the Hungarian Socialist Party from 1998 to 2004. In 2004, Kovács was nominated to serve as the Hungarian member of the European Commission, which was to take office on 1 November 2004.
- Peter Sutherland
Peter Denis Sutherland, KCMG (born April 25 1946) is an Irish businessman and former politician, associated with the Fine Gael party. He is a barrister by profession, and is also Senior Counsel. A graduate of University College Dublin, Sutherland was appointed Attorney General of Ireland in the governments of Garret FitzGerald, and as a European Commissioner when he was a member of the first Delors Commission.
- Hans van den Broek
Hans van den Broek (born 11 December 1936 in Paris) is a leading Dutch political figure. He is best known for having served 11 years as the Netherlands' Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1982 and 1993, when he became European Commissioner for Foreign Relations. Hans Van Den Broek started his career as a lawyer. He joined the Katholieke Volkspartij (KVP) and was member of the municipal council of Rheden between 1970 and 1974.
- Padraig Flynn
Pádraig Flynn is a former Irish politician. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil TD in 1977. He was returned at each subsequent election until 1993. During this time he served as Minister for Trade, Commerce & Tourism (1982), Minister for the Environment (1987-1991), Minister for Justice (1992-1993) and Minister for Industry & Commerce (1992-1993). Flynn served as European Commissioner from 1993 until 1999.