Key practitioners who work in and with EU business associations come together with leading policy makers from the EU institutions and research academics to analyze change factors for the associations and their role in EU policy making and implementation. Contributors include the Head of the team responsible for the EU White Paper on Governance, the Chair of the UK CBI Trade Association Forum, the Chair of the UK Political Studies Association, and the longest serving Secretary General of UNICE.

PAUL ADAMSON Chairman of Weber Shandwick Adamson BRUNO ALVES Consultant with Ernst and Young Management Association BARRIE GILLIATT Executive Director, EU Chlorine, Euro Chlor EDGAR GRANDE Professor of Politics, Technical University of Munich WYN GRANT Professor of Politics, University of Warwick DANIEL GUÉGUEN Managing Director of the Brussels based CLAN Public Affairs IAN LOCKS Chief Executive of the Periodical Publishers Association & Chairman of the UK Trade Association Forum DIRK LONTINGS Member of Brussels Bar and Managing Partner of Lontings and Partners JIM MURRAY Director of BEUC the European Consumers' Association ULRICH PAETZOLD Director General of FIEC, the European Construction Industry Federation NIEVES PÉREZSOLORZANO BORRAGAN Lecturer in Politics, University of East Anglia IRINI PARI Head of the Brussels Office of the Federation of Greek Industries DAVID REA Director of UK Steel ALAN REID Lecturer in European Law, Robert Gordon university Aberdeen JOHN RUSSELL Chief Executive of Weber Shandwick Brussels MICHIEL SCHEFFER CEO of Noeton Knowledge Management BV LUC STOLLE Advocate with the Law firm Peeters & Co WERNER TEUFELSBAUER Professor of Economics, Wirtschaftskammer, Austria ZYGMUNT TYSZKIEWICZ President of Swiss-based Lanckoronski Foundation and from 1985-1998 Secretary General of UNICE JEROME VIGNON Head of Governance Team at the Secretariat of the European Commission until 2001, now Director for social protection and inclusion in DG employment ALFONS WESTGEEST Partner of Ernst and Young Association Management, Brussels