Speakers at the 4th Notaries of Europe Congress

Tiina Astola
Director-General for Justice and Consumers
European Commission
Tiina Astola
On 1 February 2017, Ms Tiina Astola became Director-General for Justice and Consumers at the European Commission. The DG deals with civil justice, including contract and company law, criminal justice, fundamental rights, including data protection and free movement, equality and consumer law and policy.
Before joining the Commission, Ms Astola was Permanent Secretary of the Finnish Ministry of Justice, with overall responsibility for both international and domestic law matters, including courts and prisons. Prior to that, she headed units responsible for civil law and European law at the Department of Legislation of the Ministry and has also worked for the Finnish Ministry of Finance and the Finnish Foreign Trade Association.

Pilar del Castillo
Member ITRE Committee
European Parliament
Pilar del Castillo
Del Castillo is the Chair of the European Internet Forum (EIF), Vice-President of the European Energy Forum, member of the Board of Knowledge4Innovation (K4I) and member of the Transatlantic Policy Network. Del Castillo is Professor in Political Science and Administration. She obtained a PhD in Law from Complutense Univeresity. Before, she had attended Ohio State University on a Fulbright scholarship, graduating with a Master’s degree in Political Science. She was the Executive President of the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (Sociology Research Centre) from 1996 to 2000.

Örjan Brinkman
President
The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC)
Örjan Brinkman
He was also a member of the Monitoring Committee and the Working Committee of The European Social Fund I Sweden until 2011 and of the Swedish Government’s Disability Delegation in 2011.
Today he is active in a number of confidential assignments relating to his current position. He is a member of the Board of Agriculture’s consumer advisory group, the Chemicals Agency’s advisory council, President in Väddö Södertörn – College foundation, Member of the Dialogue Forum – Dental and Pharmaceutical Benefits Agency, President of The Swedish Consumers Association and Råd & Rön Consumer Magazine, President of BEUC – The European Consumer Organisation.

Evelyn Regner
Member JURI Committee
European Parliament
Evelyn Regner

Cristian Buşoi
Member ITRE Committee
European Parliament
Cristian Bușoi
Prior to this, Cristian Busoi was President of Romania’s National Health Insurance House (2013 – 2014 ) and member of the Romanian Parliament (2004 – 2007), where he was part of the Health and Family Committee.
Mr. Buşoi has been a member of the National Liberal Party for 20 years and currently holds the position of President of PNL Bucharest. In the PNL he has also served as Secretary General, First Vice-President and member of the Permanent Political Bureau.
Cristian Bușoi graduated from Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, Carol I National Defence College and the Law School of Titu Maiorescu University. In 2010 he obtained his Ph.D. in Public Health and Health Management from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Victor Babes Timisoara.

Frédéric Simon
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.

Catalina Guerrero
Head of section
EuroEFE
Catalina Guerrero
She previously spent nine years as the editor of EFE’s Integrated Culture department (National and International), where she closely followed the intellectual trends of Europe and the rest of the world. She came to Culture after an enriching eight-year stint in Paris, where she was the EFE correspondent from 1999 to 2007.
In her early professional years she was involved in radio. With a degree in Journalism from Madrid’s Universidad Complutense in 1992, she also holds diplomas as a Professional Expert on Culture, Civilisation and Islamic Religion from the Spanish Open University (UNED) (2007) and on the European Union (2016) from the Madrid Diplomatic School.

José Manuel García Collantes
President
Council of the Notariats of the European Union
José Manuel García Collantes

Peter Scherrer
Deputy Secretary General
European Trade Union Confederation
Peter Scherrer
Before that, he spent three years (2011-2014) as Labour Director with ArcelorMittal Bremen, and was General Secretary of the European Metalworkers’ Federation (EMF) from 2005-2011.
Peter was born in Clarholz, Westphalia in Germany. He started his working life at the age of 14 as an apprentice metalworker, and was later employed as a welder, truck driver and postman. During the 1980s, he studied history, social sciences and journalism in Germany and the UK, obtaining a Master’s degree in history from the University of Bielefeld in 1989.
From 1990 onwards, Peter held a number of trade union and NGO positions in Germany and the Balkans. From 1998-2002 he was Editor-in-Chief of the South-East Europe Review for Labour and Social Affairs (SEER).

Susanne Knöfel
Deputy Head of Unit “Company Law”
European Commission
Susanne Knöfel

Peter Bischoff-Everding
Deputy Head of Unit “Consumer and marketing law”
European Commission
Peter Bischoff-Everding
Since 2004, Peter has been European Commission official, working first in the Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General in the area of free movement of goods and under the WTO rules concerning technical barriers to trade.
He was then responsible for legal and regulatory issues in the unit in charge of EU policy and legislation in the medical devices and cosmetics sectors. From October 2012 to September 2016, Peter was deputy Head of Unit in the Health and Consumers Directorate-General in charge of consumer product and service safety.
Since October 2016, Peter has been deputy Head of Unit in the field of Consumer and Marketing Law which is part of the Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers. His unit manages the cross-cutting EU consumer law body and is currently preparing a possible legislative proposal to further modernise the rules of EU consumer law.

Jens Bormann
President
German Federal Chamber of Civil Law Notaries
Jens Bormann

José Ángel Martínez Sanchiz
President
General Council of the Spanish Notariat
José Ángel Martínez Sanchiz

Antonio Ghio
President
Malta Information Technology Law Association
Antonio Ghio
Ghio also lectures in ICT law and Cyber Crime at the University of Malta and held the position of Chairman of the Malta Communications Authority after having served as a member of the Board of Directors for the last five years.
He has an LL.D from the University of Malta where he specialised in legal aspects of Internet security and online privacy as well as an LL.M from Strathclyde University where he specialised in offshore electronic commerce.
Ghio is a founding member and current President of the Malta Information Technology Law Association – MITLA. He is a regular speaker on ICT law issues in conferences both locally and abroad and has a regular column on ICT law issues in the Sunday Times of Malta as well as a personal blog on ICT Law issues at ictlawmalta.blogspot.com.

Isidoro Antonio Calvo Vidal
General Coordinator
4th Notaries of Europe Congress
Isidoro Antonio Calvo Vidal

Marius Kohler
Vice-President
Council of the Notariats of the European Union
Marius Kohler

Mónica Fuentes Naharro
Professor
Complutense University of Madrid
Mónica Fuentes Naharro

Corrado Malberti
Professor
University of Trento
Corrado Malberti

Tamás Parti
President
Budapest Chamber of Civil Law Notaries
Tamás Parti
Dr Tamás PARTI, civil law notary in Budapest, President of the Budapest Chamber of Civil Law Notaries, member of the General Council of the UINL (International Union of Notaries), President of the CNUE’s Futurology Forum and Chair of the Committee for Technological Adaptation of the Hungarian Chamber of Civil Law Notaries. Furthermore, he is a lecturer in the Department of Civil Procedure at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest (ELTE) and examiner in the legal profession examinations [Bar examinations] in Hungary. His PhD field of research is the study of the effects of contemporary social and technological processes on fundamental rights – an aspect of this research is the study of the effects of technological progress on the notarial profession.

Lorenzo Prats Albentosa
Professor
Autonomous University of Barcelona
Lorenzo Prats Albentosa

Peter Kindler
Professor
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Peter Kindler
Since 1994 he has been involved in research and lecturing in the field of private international law and commercial law at, inter alia, various Italian universities. In 1999, Prof. Kindler was elected secretary general of the German-Italian Lawyers’ association and in 2017 the Università degli Studi del Molise/Italy conferred the degree of doctor honoris causa in Business Law upon him.
Kindler is a board member of several German and Italian legal journals (Recht der Internationalen Wirtschaft; Banca, borsa, titoli di credito; Rivista di diritto civile et al.). He is also a member of the German Institution of Arbitration (www.disarb.org) and since 2006 he has served both in ad hoc and institutional arbitrations.

Alexandre Liborio Dias Pereira
Professor
University of Coimbra
Alexandre Liborio Dias Pereira

Jacques Delvaux
Lawyer
Luxembourg Bar
Jacques Delvaux

Cesare Licini
Civil law notary in Pesaro
Cesare Licini

José Carmelo Llopis Benlloch
Civil Law Notary in Valencia
José Carmelo Llopis Benlloch
In 2013 he became a mediator at the Solutio Litis Foundation of the Notarial College of Valencia.
Since 2014, he has been writing weekly about technological and notarial issues on his blog and participating in committees and working groups at a local (IT Committee), national (Jurisprudence Group) and international level (CNUE New Technologies working group).
In 2016, he was co-author of two ebooks relating to Digital Inheritance and Electronic Evidences, and he spoke about New Technologies at conferences in Spain, like NotarTIC, and abroad, such as the 5th World Notarial University in Rome organised by the UINL.
Also, in 2016 he was honoured to be the Spanish national rapporteur for Topic II concerning electronic notarial acts and paperless processes at the 28th International Congress of the Notariat in Paris.

Erwin Roelofs
Candidate notary
Loyens & Loeff
Erwin Roelofs

Alexander Rebs
CEO
REBS Zentralschmiertechnik GmbH
Alexander Rebs

Remco van der Kuijp
Civil Law Notary in Strijen (Netherlands)