Biographies

Biographies of WPF official members.

Ralf Dahrendorf

(d.2009) Sociologist, philosopher and politician, Prof. Dahrendorf was invested by Queen Elizabeth as Baron of Clare Market in Westminster in 1993. He served as Professor of Sociology in Hamburg, at Columbia University, in Tubingen and at the University of Constance. After a brief Membership of the SPD (until 1952), he stood as a Councillor for [...]

Gianni De Michelis

Mr. Gianni De Michelis is a member of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament, representing Italy. He is a member of the EU Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, Subcommittee on Security and Defense, and a member of the delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya) and the [...]

Jacques Delors

Chairman of the European Commission from 1985 to 1995, he held important roles in French banking and state planning from the 1940s and in 1968 he became advisor to Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas. In 1974 he joined the French Socialist Party, and from 1979 to 1981 he served in the European Parliament. He served as [...]

Hans Dietrich Genscher

Former German Minister for Foreign Affairs (1974 - 1992). Member of the Liberal Party in East Germany, he left the East in 1952, joining the Free Democrats in West Germany. Elected to the Bundestag in 1965, in 1974 he became the party’s Chairman, and led it into a coalition government with the Social Democrats, becoming [...]

Carlo Frascarolo

He is on the Register of Accountants and Qualified Accountants since 1981. He became an auditor in 1991 and is Expert Witness of the Judge at the Court of Alessandria and Loss Adjuster appointed by the Ministry of Labour. Frascarolo is Advisor of the Alessandria Saving Bank and President of the Board of Auditors of [...]

Enzo Ghigo

Former Member of the Chamber of Deputies Foreign Affairs Committee. He was given the title of Grand’Ufficiale al Merito della Repubblica Italiana by former President of the Italian Republic Scalfaro, and in 2002 he also received the title of Cavaliere di Gran Croce al Merito della Repubblica Italiana from President Ciampi. In 1995 he was [...]

Marshall Goldman

Professor Emeritus in the Wellesley College Department of Economics and Associate Director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. An internationally recognised authority on Russian economics, politics, and environmental policy, Professor Goldman is the author of over a dozen books on the former Soviet Union, one of the most recent [...]

Mikhail Gorbachev

Pres. Gorbachev was born in Stavropol KraiĀ into a peasant family. He was admitted to Moscow State University and studied at the law faculty, graduating in 1955. As a student at the University Gorbachev joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1970 he was elected member of the CPSU Central Committee. In November 1978 [...]

Andrei Grachev

He is a Russian political analyst and journalist, he graduated in History from the Moscow Institute of International relations (1964), Ph. D in history, Academy of Social Sciences, Moscow (1976). Andrei Grachev was Editor of the international magazine “World Youth” in Budapest (Hungary) . Consultant and Deputy Director on the International Department of the Central [...]

Edoardo Greppi

Professor of International Law and of European Union Law, Faculty of Law, University of Turin. Director of the LLM in International Crime and Justice (University of Turin and UNICRI, the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute). Former Dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences and International Relations of the University of the Valle [...]