Speakers - CONFERENCE ON THE FUTURE OF EUROPE
ROBERTA METSOLA
Vice-President of the European Parliament
ROBERTA METSOLA
In 2020 she was elected as the First Vice President of the European Parliament, becoming the first Maltese national to hold the post. Professionally she is a lawyer who has specialised in European law and politics.
Prior to her election as a MEP, Vice-President Metsola served within the Permanent Representation of Malta to the European Union and later as the legal advisor to the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. In her student years, she was active in various organisations, acting as the Secretary-General for the European Democrat Student organisation between 2002-2003.
Within the European Parliament, VP Metsola was the EPP Group’s Coordinator in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, between January 2017 and 2020. Vice-President Metsola was the Parliament’s rapporteur on the European Border and Coastguard Regulation in 2019.
VP Metsola is the Head of the Partit Nazzjonalista delegation within the EPP Group. She is currently a Member of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee and of the Delegation for Relations with the United States. VP Metsola is a Substitute Member on the Committee for Environment, Public Health and Food safety, the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in the Digital Age and the Delegation for Relations with Japan.
Born in 1979, Roberta Metsola is married to Ukko Metsola and is the mother of four boys. She graduated from the University of Malta and the College of Europe in Bruges.
Dubravka ŠUICA
Vice-President of the European Commission for Democracy and Demography
Dubravka ŠUICA
VĚRA JOUROVA
Vice-President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency
Věra Jourová
From 2014 to 2019, she was European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality. In this role, she was responsible for overseeing issues related to data protection and privacy in the EU, gender equality and enforcement of pay rules in the financial and commercial sectors. Since 2019, Věra Jourová has been Vice-President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency.
DIDIER REYNDERS
European Commissioner for Justice
DIDIER REYNDERS
GAŠPER DOVŽAN
Slovenian State Secretary for European Affairs
GAŠPER DOVŽAN
He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2000. Between 2002 and 2004, he worked as a Legal Adviser to the Delegation of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia at the Intergovernmental Conference on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe. Between 2004 and 2008, Mr Dovžan served as adviser for international relations in the Office of the Prime Minister and was involved in the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the EU in the first half of 2008.
In 2012, he advised and assisted the Prime Minister on European and foreign policy issues. He previously worked in the Economic Diplomacy Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In spring 2013, he was appointed acting director of the Government Office for Legislation. Between autumn 2014 and July 2017, he was Deputy Head of the Slovenian Embassy in Berlin. Between August 2017 and March 2020, he worked in the Department for General and Institutional Affairs of the Directorate for EU Affairs the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He covered institutional matters and coordinated the work related to the European Council. In autumn 2019, he became Head of Department.
Mr Dovžan previously worked for Petrol d. d., the leading energy company in Slovenia, and completed his judicial traineeship at Ljubljana Higher Court. He lectured on constitutional law at the European Faculty of Law in Nova Gorica and at the Graduate School of Government and European Studies in Brdo pri Kranju. He also published numerous articles and essays on constitutional, EU and human rights law.
ÁDÁM TÓTH
President of the Council of the Notariats of the European Union
Adam Toth
2016 – Member of the CNUE Board of Directors
2015 – Knight of Cross from the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic
Since 2007 – President of the Hungarian Chamber of Notaries
2004-2007 – Vice-President of the Hungarian Chamber of Notaries
Since 2004 – Member of the General Council of the International Union of Notaries (UINL) representing Hungary at the CNUE and in the cooperation of Central European notaries (Hexagonale)
Since 2001 – Member of the Presiding Board of a Disciplinary Court of the Territorial Chamber of Civil Law Notaries in Budapest
Since 1998 – Notary – IX/3. Budapest Notary’s Office
1996-2004 – Member of the Council of the Institute of Comparative Law (CAEM) of the International Union of Notaries (UINL)
Since 1997 – Director and editor of Közjegyzők Közlönye (Bulletin of Notaries)
1993-1998 – Notary substitute
1990-1993 – Court Secretaries – Hungarian Constitutional Court
Other activities:
ELTE -ÁJK associate professor
Speaker at several international and national conferences
Author of national and international legal books and journals
Vice-President of the Hungarian Law Association
Member of the National Judicial Council
SALLA SAASTAMOINEN
Director “Civil and Commercial Justice”
European Commission
Salla Saastamoinen
ALAIN PILETTE
Deputy Director “Justice”, General Secretariat of the Council
ALAIN PILETTE
– Legal advisor, SITA world’s leading specialist in air transport communications and information technology (1995-1997),
– Administrator, Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market, European Parliament (1997-2000),
– Legal advisor, Legal Service, Council of the European Union (2000-2002),
– Member of the Secretariat of the European Convention (2002-2003),
– Legal Advisor to the Administration, Council of the European Union (2003-2005),
– Head of the Legal Advisors to the Administration Unit, Council of the European Union (2005-2016),
– Head of the judicial cooperation in civil matters and e-Justice Unit, Council of the European Union (2016-2017),
– Deputy Director, Justice, Council of the European Union (2018-).
LIONEL GALLIEZ
Vice-President of the International Union of the Notariat (UINL)
LIONEL GALLIEZ
Vice-President (Europe) of the International Union of Notaries
Advisor to the President of the Conseil supérieur du notariat (France) for international affairs
President of the 28th International Congress of Notaries (Paris, 2016)
GIAMPAOLO MARCOZ
Vice-President of the Council of the Notariats of the European Union
GIAMPAOLO MARCOZ
In 2016 he was elected to the College of Piedmont and Aosta Valley as a Councillor at the National Council of Notaries, where until 2018 he was in charge of the communication sector and the innovation commission.
In the three-year period 2016 – 2019 he held the position of Director on the Board of Directors of Notartel S.p.A., an IT company serving the National Council of Notaries.
In June 2019, he was elected Vice-President of the National Council of Notaries, a position he will hold until February 2021.
He was appointed President of the CNUE for the year 2022.
JENS BORMANN
President of the Bundesnotarkammer
JENS BORMANN
Notary and President of the German Federal Chamber of Civil Law Notaries (Bundesnotarkammer)
Dr. Jens Bormann is notary in Ratingen (Germany) and since 2015 also President of Bundesnotarkammer in Berlin.
After his law studies in Constance and Geneva and his legal clerkship in Freiburg and Paris, Dr. Jens Bormann was research fellow at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. In 2002 he pursued his postgraduate studies at Harvard Law School with a Master of law degree (LL.M.) and was awarded a doctorate (Dr. iur.) in Freiburg. From 2006 to 2011, Dr. Jens Bormann was secretary general of Bundesnotarkammer. In 2017 he was appointed Honorary Professor at Leibniz University Hannover.
During his term of office as President of Bundesnotarkammer, he accompanied numerous legislative reforms and digitalization projects at the crossroads between the notarial profession, the judiciary and administrative authorities.
KATRIN ROGGEMAN
President of the Royal Federation of Belgian Notaries
KATRIN ROGGEMAN
Katrin Roggeman studied notarial law at the KU Leuven and started her career in the office of notary Thierry van Halteren in Brussels. In 2007, she became a full notary in the association “Van Halteren, associated notaries”.
She has already held several mandates within various notarial institutions. In 2008 she started as treasurer of the board of the Dutch-speaking Council (now VlaNot). She was, among others, a member of the Chamber of Ethics of Notaries of the Brussels-Capital Region and of COBRA. She was also a member of the External Relations Commission of VlaNot and a member of the Dutch Language Appointment Commission for the notarial profession. From 2018 to 2021, Notary Roggeman was Vice President of the Board of Directors of Fednot and a member of the VlaNot Bureau.
CLINTON BELLIZZI
President of the Maltese Chamber of Notaries
CLINTON BELLIZZI
Notary Clinton Bellizzi also lectured at the University of Malta on Notarial law, title registrations, guarantees and conveyancing as a visiting lecturer and dissertation, term papers and thesis supervisor.
He has participated in a number of international conferences and symposia ranging from European succession regimes to circulation of authentic instruments and represented the Maltese Notariat during meetings of the Council of the Notariats of the European Union (CNUE) as President of the Maltese Notarial Council (Kunsill Nutarili ta’ Malta).
With a penchant for everything revolving around information technology, data security and data governance, Notary Clinton Bellizzi participated in a number of national initiatives aimed at transposing Notarial services to the digital world, from deed registration to title searches and office management. Recent collaborations with key academic, professional and administrative entities, revolve around best practice recommendations in information security for Notaries and drafting a common policy for digital heritage regulation together with a comprehensive nation-wide data governance strategy, including DLT solutions.
JĀNIS SKRASTIÑŠ
President of the Council of Notaries of Latvia
JĀNIS SKRASTIÑŠ
RADIM NEUBAUER
President of the Chamber of Notaries of the Czech Republic
RADIM NEUBAUER
Since 2015, President of the Notarial Chamber of the Czech Republic
2014/2015, President of the Notarial Chamber in Prague
Since September 2011, notary in Prague
Graduate of the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague, Aledo High School in Illinois (USA) and Gymnasium Liebigschule in Frankfurt am Main (Germany).
Member of the European Law Institute (ELI) (since 2014) and of the Commission for European Affairs of the UINL (2008 – 2014).
TAMÁS PARTI
President of the CNUE Futurology Forum
TAMÁS PARTI
EFTYCHIA KARASTATHI
Board Member of the Hellenic Notarial Council
EFTYCHIA KARASTATHI
JOSÉ CARMELO LLOPIS BENLLOCH
Notary in Ayora
(Spain)
JOSÉ CARMELO LLOPIS BENLLOCH
Finalised the Law Degree (1996-2001) at the Universidad de Valencia.
Passed the notarial capacity on 2008.
Notary holder of the notarial office in Ayora (Valencia-Spain) since 2011.
Mediator of the Solutio Litis Foundation since 2013.
Member of the Notarial Board of the Valencia Local Chamber since 2020.
Spanish Delegate at the CNUE on the New Technologies Working Group (since 2015), on the EUFides and Bartolus Working Group (since 2015), on the New Technologies Futurology Forum (since 2016) and on the Data Protection Task Force (since 2018).
Spanish Delegate at the UINL on the New Technologies Working Group (since 2020).
Speaker at the Annual Conference on European Company Law and Corporate Governance 2017, organised by the Academy of European Law (ERA) on “Digital tools and processes in EU company law from the point of view of the notary”, Trier, 2017.
Spanish Speaker on the “Electronic notarial acts and paperless processes” theme at the XXVIII International Congress (Paris, 2016).
Member of the Scientific Committee and speaker on the theme “Consumer protection in the digital environment” of the 4th Congress of the Notaries of Europe (Santiago de Compostela, 2017).
Delegate at the Advisory Committee of the Principles for a Data Economy Project of the European Law Institute (ELI) with the American Law Institute (ALI) from 2018 to 2021.
Delegate at the Advisory Committee of the Digital Inheritance Project of the European Law Institute (ELI) since 2019.
Coordinator and speaker on the “Digital identity” and “Dynamic notarial documents” at the I NotarTIC Congress (Seville, 2016).
Author of articles concerning Blockchain, Digital Will or Digital Inheritance, among others, at several online and written publications (Profesiones, Escritura Pública, BIN, Idealista, El Economista)
Co-author of the following ebooks in 2016: “Electronic Evidences” (ISBN 978-84-617-4743-6) and “Digital Will” (ISBN 978-84-617-4521-0).
Co-author of the book “Legal Tech: La transformación digital de la abogacía”, La Ley (2019) (ISBN 978-84-9020-851-9)
RAUL RADOI
Secretary General of the Council of the Notariats of the European Union
RAUL RADOI
FRÉDÉRIC SIMON
News Editor
Euractiv
FRÉDÉRIC SIMON
Frédéric is also Brussels correspondent for France 24, the 24/7 international TV channel. He graduated in journalism from Brussels University (ULB) in 1998 and holds a Master’s degree in EU politics from the Institut d’Etudes Européennes (IEE) in Brussels.
Denis KRAJCAR
Member of the Board and the Committee for International Cooperation of the Croatian Chamber of Notaries.
DENIS KRAJCAR
15.03.1982. appointed as a court trainee on Municipal court of Pula
25.06.1983. passed the bar exam
- appointed as a judge of the Municipal court of Pula
1989 appointed as a Deputy President of the Civil Division of the Municipal Court in Pula
27.07.1994. passed the notarial exam,
from 11.01.1995 until today, civil law notary in Pula,
Work in chamber bodies and international associations:
1995.-1998. Member of the Committee for international cooperation of the Croatian Notaries Chamber,
1998.-2001. President of the Committee for international cooperation of the Croatian Notaries Chamber,
1998.-2004. President of the notarial assembley for the region of Istria
2000.-2006. Member of CAE commission of the Union Internationale du Notariat- UINL
2001.-2004. President of the Committee for international cooperation of the Croatian Notaries Chamber,
2004.-2007. President of the Committee for international cooperation of the Croatian Notaries Chamber,
2005.-2013. representative of the Croatian Notaries Chamber in the CNUE (before Croatian notariat entered the full membership of CNUE)
2007.-2010. President of the Committee for international cooperation of the Croatian Notaries Chamber,
2010.-2013. President of the Committee for international cooperation of the Croatian Notaries Chamber,
- Director in the CNUE Board in 2015. mandate (under the presidency of Mr Jean Tarrade)
2016.-2019. member of the editorial board of the Croatian Notaries Chamber journal “Javni bilježnik” and author of numerous articles on notarial profession.
- until today, member of the Steering committee and Committee for international cooperation of Croatian Notaries Chamber