Catherine Ashton

Catherine Ashton

High Representative of the EU
Foreign Affairs & Security Policy (2009-2014)
Vice President (2010-2014)

European Commission, United Kingdom

Baroness Catherine Ashton served as the European Union's first High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy between 2009 and 2014, responsible for the creation of the European External Action Service and the oversight of 140 Diplomatic Missions and 8 military operations. On behalf of the UN Security Council, she coordinated negotiations that resulted in the nuclear programme agreement with Iran. Previously she was EU Commissioner for Trade and served as a Minister in the Departments of Education and Justice, as well as Leader of the House of Lords and President of HM Queen's Privy Council. Baroness Ashton is a Senior Policy Advisor at Chatham House and the Global Europe Chair at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars in Washington D.C. She is a senior advisor to the Geneva based mediation organisation, Humanitarian Dialogue.

Thursday 27

  • 11.50 - 12.30

    Europe as a Lighthouse an the Storm: How to Pave the Way to Peace

    • WORLD AFFAIRS

    location_onLeto Hall | Amalia Hotel

    Programming Partner: GLOBSEC

Friday 28

  • 15.05 - 15.55

    Implications of a Stalled EU Enlargement

    • WORLD AFFAIRS

    location_onLeto Hall | Amalia Hotel

  • 16.40 - 17.20

    The New EU Foreign and Security Policy Towards Russia: Central European Perspectives

    • WORLD AFFAIRS

    location_onArtemis Hall | European Cultural Centre of Delphi

    Programming Partner: Warsaw Security Forum