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Alda CarvalhoCurrent Statistics Portugal President.
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Daniel BélandHolds the Canada Research Chair in Public Policy (Tier 1) at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School in Public Policy (University of Saskatchewan campus). A political sociologist studying fiscal and social policy from a comparative and historical perspective, Professor Béland has published more than 10 books and 85 peer-reviewed journal articles.
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Giuliano BonoliProfessor of social policy at the Swiss graduate school for public administration at the University of Lausanne. He received his PhD at the University of Kent at Canterbury for a study on pension reform in Europe. He has been involved in several national and international research projects on various aspects of social policy. His work has focused on pension reform, labour market and family polices, with particular attention paid to the politics of welfare state transformation. He has published some forty articles and chapters in edited books, as well as a few books.
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Klaus SchubertProfessor of German Politics and Policy Analysis at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Muenster, Germany. He was and is involved in many national and international research projects. He coordinates the "Future of European Welfare Systems"-network a multi-disciplinary group of research-ers active in all member states of the European Union. He is co-editor of "Euro-pean Policy Analysis" (EPA) an online journal of the Policy Studies Organisa-tion, Berkeley and member of the editorial board of the "Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis" (JCPA; Routledge, London/New York). At the conference he will argue in favour of a "politically limited pluralism" of Welfare Systems in the European Union.
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Raquel VarelaResearcher at the Instituto de História Contemporânea (IHC) of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon New University), where she coordinates the Study Group on Labour and Social Conflicts. She is honorary fellow of the International Institute for Social History, where she co-coordinates the international project 'In the Same Boat? Shipbuilding and ship repair workers around the World (1950-2010)'. She has a PhD in Political and Institutional History (ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa).
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Traute MeyerAssociate professor in Comparative Social Policy at the University of Southampton. She has been principal and co-investigator of five comparative research projects, investigating welfare state change in Europe, with a particular focus on pension policies and politics. She has published widely in this area. Since 2008 Traute has also been the Editor of the Journal of European Social Policy (with J. Clasen, University of Edinburgh), and she is a member of the Board of the European Social Policy Analysts Network (ESPAnet).
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