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Julián Carrón
- Presentation Sunday, 22 March, 14.30
Since 2005 Fr. Prof. Julián Carrón has led the Catholic movement “Communion and Liberation”, succeeding the founder, Luigi Giussani. He teaches the course “Introduction to Theology” at the Catholic University of Milan.
Previously Julián Carrón was the principle and chaplain of Madrid's minor seminary as well as Professor of New Testament studies and led a number of academic committees and institutes. He has published numerous works in the field of Biblical studies, especially regarding the historicity of the Gospels in the light of philological findings.
As the one responsible for Communion and Liberation he has undertaken several tasks on behalf of the universal Church, among them as advisor to the Pontifical Council for the Laity.
Nils-Peter Daetz
- Panel discussion Saturday, 21 March, 14.30
Nils-Peter Daetz has worked in Saudi Arabia, France and the USA, among other countries, and is now Acting Head of European HR at Nokia Solutions and Networks GmbH & Co. KG in Munich.
Raised in Indonesia, the qualified industrial sales clerk worked for Siemens AG until 2005 and looks back on over 30 years experience in international telecoms and medical technology. In 2010 he completed his training at Hephaistos to become a systemic life coach. His professional experience and intercultural awareness help him to counsel managers as well as students and migrants.
Gabriele Gien
- Presentation Friday, 20 March, 16.00
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Gien studied to become a teacher with the subjects German language and literature, physics, mathematics und art. While working as a teacher she completed a doctorate in the didactics of primary education, finally completed her professorial qualification with a long-term study of the development of metaphorical abilities of children and adolescents. From 2008 to 2014 she was Chair of German Language and Literature Didactics at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, as well as Vice President of Studies, before being named interim President in October 2014.
Since 2014 Mrs. Gien has been a partner of the EU African Business Forum on the KUganda project, which aims to support the education and further development of teachers in the slum schools of Uganda. Under her leadership the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt joined the network “Education through Responsibility” to further develop Service Learning.
Georg Haubs
- Panel discussion Saturday, 21 March, 14.30
The physicist Dr. Georg Haubs has headed various subsidiaries of the Rohde & Schwarz Group since 2007, and is among other responsibilities now Managing Director of R&S Systems GmbH.
Previously he held leading positions in the telecom sector at Unisphere Networks (USA, four years) and at Siemens Group (15 years total). Connecting his roles in various areas of business is his focus on innovation and progressive development of companies.
Angel Mel Ortega
- Panel discussion Saturday, 21 March, 11.00
Angel Mel Ortega completed his studies in business administration in 1984 at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and thereafter worked for, among others, the Spanish multinational Tompla S.A., where he was responsible for various European offices, as well as at Leroy Merlin, S.A. between 1990 and 2002, as managing director. In 2002 the father of several children decided to leave Leroy Merlin and founded a school.
As the overall school director until 2006, Angel Mel Ortega leaned on his long years of business experience particularly for the opening stages of the foundation. Alongside feasibility studies, publicity and building up good relations with the Madrid city adminstration, he led on all the steps needed leading up to the opening of Colegio Kolbe. Since 2006, Angel Mel is the pedagogical director of Colegio Kolbe.
Roberto Pellegatta
- Round table discussion Saturday, 21 March, 14.30
Roberto Pellegatta is teacher of philosophy and history. He has been involved in the training and development of teachers and school directors since starting of his 40 year career. He works on numerous commissions at regional and national levels, and has completed research for the Italian Ministry of Education on fundamental issues in the school system, especially from a European perspective.
In 2001, after ten years of experience as a school director, Roberto Pellegatta founded the Di.S.A.L. association for school directors where he was president until 2013. The association provides mutual support to directors of private and state schools in the areas of education and formation as well as administation.
Claire Pickartz
- Panel discussion Saturday, 21 March, 11.00
Claire Pickartz studied mathematics and geography at RWTH Aachen. After 16 years at the Liebfrauenschule in Cologne she took up first the role of deputy director in 2002, and then director, of the Erzbischöfliches St. Ursula-Gymnasium school in Brühl.
Thus her professional journey has been accompanied by the questions of educating young people within a Christian worldview. As a school director Claire Pickartz put the individual talents and personality of her students at the centre of developing the school. Her expertise in education and schools have involved her in local politics as a citizen advisor to the schools committee of her local region.
Franz Reimer
- Workshop Saturday, 21 March, 17.00
Prof. Dr. Franz Reimer is Professor of Public Law and Legal Theory at the Justus Liebig University, Gießen. Born in Bonn, he studied law at Bonn, Oxford and Freiburg, where he received his doctorate, where he then worked as a research assistant in the Institute of Political Science and Philosophy of Law. After qualifying as a professor in 2007 he accepted a call to the Justus Liebig University in Gießen and while there has served since 2012 as executive director of the Rudolf von Jhering Institute for Fundamental Research in Legal Theory.
As president of the Erwin Stein Foundation he has published on the subject of homeschooling in the light of constitutional law, both in German and international journals. He most recently wrote for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung a comment on the German Constitutional Court's landmark decision on homeschooling (2 BvR 920/14), entitled “Raum der Freiheit?”
A father of three, he was also a curator of the travelling exhibition “The White Rose: Faces of a Friendship”.
Eugenia Scabini
- Presentation Sunday, 22 March, 11.30
Prof. Eugenia Scabini is emeritus Professor of Social Psychology of the Family at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, and leader there of the scientific advisory of the Centre for Family Studies and Research. Before taking up this role she was for eleven years Dean of the Faculty of Psychology.
The author of over 300 publications in Italian and English, on a variety of questions in family research, is a sought-after scientific advisor, i.a. on the cultural project of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, and as consultant to the Pontifical Council for the Family. Among other awards, she received the Italian President’s gold medal for extraordinary services in science and culture in 2007.
Burkhard Schmitt
- Panel discussion Saturday, 21 March, 11.00
- Round table discussion Saturday, 21 March, 14.30
Burkhard Schmitt studied German and political science at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and wrote his Masters thesis on Hannah Arendt. Only ten years later he became director of the CJD Christophorusschule Droyßig near Leipzig, a State-recognised selective private secondary boarding school, which position he still holds.
He has been a voluntary interim leader of one Evangelical primary school and a founder of a further school. With the aim of delivering formation as a wholistic pedagogy with a Christian basis, Burkhard Schmitt has applied the knowledge his continued professional development afforded in the fields of gifted and talented support and potential consulting. He has completed trainer formation in the USA with Dale Carnegie & Associates.
Bernhard Scholz
- Panel discussion Saturday, 21 March, 14.30
Since 2009 Bernhard Scholz has been president of Compagnia delle Opere, an association of around 35,000 small and medium-sized enterprises and non-profit organizations in Italy. He is a management consultant and, since 2006, heads the Scuola d’Impresa della Fondazione per la Sussidiarietà, an academy for leaders of small and medium-sized businesses.
Bernhard Scholz was born in Müllheim (Baden). Having studied Political Science in Münster and Freiburg he first worked as a journalist and press spokesman for the Diocese of Freiburg. Since the late 1990s, he has been based in Milan, working in management consulting.
As president of Compagnia delle Opere Bernhard Scholz has discussed Italy's as well as Europe's current economic and social developments in a number of contributions to public media.
At the Rhine Meeting 2014 he had the final talk about The Future of Europe.
John Waters
- Presentation Friday, 20 March, 16.00
John Waters is a journalist and writer based in Ireland. He has been writing for Irish newspapers since 1981 and contributing to the Irish Times for 23 years. Since 2014 he has been working as a columnist for the Irish Independent. He has authored several books, audio books, stage plays, and song lyrics.
John Waters counts among the most prominent voices in public life in Ireland. Having specialised in “raising unpopular issues of public importance” he focuses on current developments in society, culture, and politics. He adopts a decidedly personal standpoint, starting off from life's existential questions, often supported by his personal testimony (e.g. in his best sellers Jiving at the Crossroads and Lapsed Agnostic). This renders his contributions interesting to audiences well beyond Ireland.
At the Rhine Meeting 2014 he had the opening talk entitled Seeking our European Heart.