Members

THE MEMBERS OF THE KANGAROO GROUP 2024

HONORARY MEMBERS

• VALERY GISCARD D'ESTAING (+)

• BERTEL HAARDER

• MARIO MONTI

• ANA PALACIO

• ALAIN POMPIDOU

Honorary President

KARL VON WOGAU

MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

• HERBERT DORFMANN MEP/EPP, Member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, Italy

• MARKUS FERBER MEP/EPP, Member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, Germany

• MICHAEL GAHLER MEP/EPP, Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Member of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence, Germany

• EERO HEINÄLUOMA MEP/S&D, Member of the Committee on Monetary and Economic Affairs, Finland

• NICLAS HERBST MEP/EPP, Vice-Chair of the Committee on Budgets, Germany

• NATHALIE LOISEAU MEP/Renew Group Europe, France

• LUKAS MANDL MEP/EPP, Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Austria

• CHRISTINE SCHNEIDER MEP/EPP, Member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, Germany

• TOMISLAV SOKOL MEP/EPP, Vice-Chair of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, Croatia

• MARION WALSMANN MEP/EPP, Vice-Chair of the Committee on Legal Affairs, Germany

10 Members

MEMBERS FROM OTHER INSTITUTIONS, ACADEMIA AND EXPERTS

• BERNARD ALLEN, Expert, Director of Applied Analytics Ireland and Member of the Audit and Risk Committee Sport Ireland

• MARCO BECHT, Professor of Finance, Solvay Brussels School of Economics, Université libre de Bruxelles

• Markus J. BEYRER, Director General, BusinessEurope

• GRAHAM BISHOP, Adviser European Financial Affairs, GrahamBishop.com, former Rapporteur to the EU's Interinstitutional Monitoring Group

• RAINER BODEN, Adviser, Financial Services

• WALTER BRINKMANN, Adviser, Consumer Goods

• BENOIT CHAUCHEPRAT, Expert,

• DAVID DOYLE, Director, The Genesis Initiative

• JEAN-MARC DUQUESNE, Director, Groupement des Industries Françaises de Défense et de Sécurité Terrestres et Aéroterrestres (GICAT)

• OTMAR FRANZ, Vorsitzender des Vorstands, RKW

• MICHEL GARI, Expert

• STEFAN GEHROLD, Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, Head of Hermann-Ehlers-Bildungsforum Weser-Ems, Former MEP, Germany

• EDIT HERCZOG, former Member of the European Parliament, Hungary

• OLIVIER JEHIN, Journalist

• ARMEN KIRAKOSYAN, Expert

• THOMAS KNAPE, Expert/Analyst, Applied Intelligence Analytics Ltd.

• CHARLES LAROCHE, Expert

• MICHEL PH. MATTOUG, Leiter Steinbeis-Transferzentrum Internationale

• FREDERIC MAURO, Expert

• AXEL NICOLAS, European Affairs Officer, The French Land and Airland Defense and Security Association (GICAT)

• CHRISTOPH RAAB, Expert on Drones

• ALEXANDER RADWAN, Member of the German Bundestag

• CHRISTA RANDZIO-PLATH, Prof Dr h.c. University of Hamburg, Former MEP and Former President of the EP's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs

• JOCHEN RICHTER, Founder of JMR Interconnect, Director (retired) European Parliament, Lecturer at University of Luxembourg

• FEDERICO SANTOPINTO, Expert, Group for Research and Information on Peace and Security (GRIP)

• EDOUARD SIMON, Expert, Institut des Relations Internationales et Stratégiques (IRIS), France

• MARGARITA STARKEVICIUTE, Former Member of the European Parliament, Lithuania

• MICHEL TROUBETZKOY, Expert

28 Members

MEMBERS FROM INDUSTRY, SERVICES AND TRADE

• ROYA AYAZI (NEREUS)

• LIAM BENHAM (BOEING)

• ALEXANDER BOGENSPERGER (ALLIANZ)

• EMMA BROWN (CropLife Europe)

• GIOVANNI CARLUCCI (British American Tobacco)

• ALESSANDRO CASCINI (Bridgestone)

• JAMES CEMMELL (INMARSAT)

• JULIE CHAUVET (NOVARTIS)

• NATHALIE DARGE (TOBACCO EUROPE)

• MARIE DE SAINT CHERON (Safran Group)

• NATHALIE ERRARD (AIRBUS)

• CHRIS FRECH (EmergentBiosolutions)

• AOIFE GALLAGHER (Eli Lilly)

• SILVIA GANDUS (FINCANTIERI)

• CHARLES-FRANCOIS GODEFROY (Unilever)

• DIDIER GONDALLIER DE TUGNY (MBDA)

• MICHAEL HACK (The International Bromine Council (BSEF))

• CHRIS HAENEN (GENERAL ELECTRIC AVIATION)

• PHILIPP HANSEN (JTI)

• GERHARD HOFMANN (BVR - Bundesverband der Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken)

• EMMANUEL JACOB (EUROMIL)

• JULIEN JARDELOT (London Stock Exchange Group, LSEG)

• KRASSIMIRA KAZASHKA (Metal Packaging Europe, MPE)

• NIKOS MERTZANIDIS (CLIA)

• NATHALIE MOLL (EFPIA)

• FRANCOIS-REGIS MOUTON (IOGP)

• MARIO MÜLLER (Philip Morris International)

• ALEXANDER NATZ (EUCOPE)

• BENJAMIN QUATRE (French Banking Federation)

• DANIEL REIJER (Stichting AHF Global Immunity)

• BURKHARD REUSS (TotalEnergies)

• KAROLIN SCHRIEVER (German Savings Banks Association)

• ALESSANDRO TSCHIRKOV (Herbalife)

• BART VERMEULEN (ExxonMobil)

• JULIE VERMOOTEN (Merck Sharp & Dohme)

35 Members

CORPORATE Members 2024

GREATER AREA OF SPACE, SECURITY AND DEFENCE

• AIRBUS Defence & Security

• BOEING

• EUROMIL

• FINCANTIERI

• General Electric Aviation

• INMARSAT

• MBDA

• NEREUS

• SAFRAN Groupe

FINANCE

• Allianz SE

• BVR (Bundesverband der Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken)

• FRENCH BANKING FEDERATION

• GERMAN SAVINGS BANKS ASSOCIATION (DSGV)

• London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)

PHARMACEUTICALS

• EFPIA

• ELI LILLY

• Emergent BioSolutions

• European Confederation of Pharmaceutical Entrepreneurs (EUCOPE)

• MERCK SHARP & DOHME

• NOVARTIS

• Stichting AHF Global Immunity

FOOD/NUTRITION

• HERBALIFE

CHEMICALS/OIL/RUBBER/STEEL

• BRIDGESTONE

• EXXONMOBIL

• INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF OIL & GAS PRODUCERS (IOGP)

• METAL PACKAGING EUROPE (MPE)

• THE INTERNATIONAL BROMINE COUNCIL (BSEF)

• TOTALENERGIES

FAST MOVING CONSUMER GOODS (FMCG)

• BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO

• CROPLIFE EUROPE

• JTI

• PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL

• TOBACCO EUROPE

• UNILEVER

FREIGHT/TRANSPORT/MAILING

• CRUISE LINES INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION (CLIA) Europe

35 Members (as of September 2024)