Gergely Karácsony
Gergely Karácsony is the Mayor of Budapest. He is a green, left-wing politician, co-chair of the Dialogue party, and was elected mayor of Budapest in 2019 as the joint candidate of five opposition parties. Between 2014 and 2019 he served as mayor of Budapest’s 14th district. Prior to that, he was an MP of the […]
Ian Brossat
Ian Brossat is the Deputy Mayor of Paris for Housing, Emergency accommodation and Refugee protection. For several years he teached literature in the suburbs of Paris and since 2008 he is an elected Paris counselor. He leads a strong public housing development policy while regulating the private housing market in Paris. Ian Brossat is involved […]
Kim van Sparrentak
Kim van Sparrentak is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament. Kim studied Political Science and Urban Environmental Management and during her studies was active as a co-chair at DWARS Amsterdam. With the Young European Greens (FYEG), Kim was a member of the climate and energy working group. Later on, she started working […]
Kadri Simson
Kadri Simson is the European Commissioner for Energy in the Von der Leyen Commission since December 2019. She is an Estonian politician from the Centre Party. She was previously the Minister of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure in Jüri Ratas’ first cabinet from 2016 to 2019. During the Estonian Presidency in the Council of the EU, […]
Sorcha Edwards
Sorcha Edwards is Secretary General of Housing Europe, the European Federation of public, cooperative, and social housing providers in Europe.
Michaela Kauer
Michaela Kauer, director at the Brussels Office of the City of Vienna, is a reknown expert on EU urban policy, affordable housing and public services with a strong gender equality focus. She has a long work experience with the City of Vienna, occupying different posts. Sarting in 1992 as spokesperson of the City Councillor for […]
Elena Szolgayová
Elena Szolgayová is a Co-chair of #Housing2030 initiative. Elena is an architect and urban planner with long-standing research and policy making experience. She was Director General of DG Housing Policy and Urban Development at the Ministry of Transport and Construction of Slovakia. For over two decades participated in shaping the visions of the global, European, […]
Manuel Pizarro
Manuel Pizarro is Member of the European Parliament. He is Doctor of Internal Medicine, and was High Commissioner of the Portuguese Health Convention and City Councillor at the Municipality of Porto. As City Councillor, he was responsible for Housing and Social Action in Porto from 2013 to 2017. From 2008 to 2011 he held the […]
Paolo Ciccarelli
Paolo Ciccarelli is Head of Unit “Sustainable Transport and Urban Development” at DG INTPA. He is an Architect who has specialised in development cooperation in the private and public sectors, and has more than 35 years of experience in managing a broad range of infrastructure projects in Europe and Africa. He has the experience of […]
Judit Rózsa
Judit Rózsa is Director of Resources, Coordination and Aid Programme in the Directorate-General for Structural Reform Support of the European Commission. Since joining the European Commission in 2007 she led various units in DG Employment and Social Policy and in DG Regional and Urban Policy in charge of planning and implementation of Structural Funds, European […]
Ciarán Cuffe
Ciarán Cuffe is a member of the European Parliament for Dublin with the Green Party. He sits on the Energy and Transport Committees of the Parliament, and serves as president of EUFORES, a European NGO that promotes the deployment of renewable energy sources and energy efficiency. He is an architect and planner, and graduated in […]
Stefan Moser
Stefan Moser is head of unit in DG Energy since 2015, serving firstly on energy security and safety, and now on energy efficiency of buildings and products. He was born in Munich in 1971 and trained as an economist and a lawyer. He joined the Commission in 2000 in DG Competition to work on control […]