Advisory Board

ADVISORY BOARDMaurice FraserMaurice Fraser is a teaching fellow of the London School of Economics and Political Science and director of Agora Projects Ltd.  He is senior counselor to APCO Worldwide on European and international public policy issues.Mr. Fraser was special adviser to, successively, UK Foreign Secretaries Sir Geoffrey Howe, John Major and Douglas Hurd between 1989 and 1995, and London correspondent of the French politics weekly, Valeurs Actuelles, between 1996 and 1998. A former chairman of the Communications Committee of the European Movement (1996-97), he is a trustee of the Franco-British Council and the Forum for European Philosophy, a council member of the Federal Trust for Education and Research and the Britain in Europe campaign, and a member of the advisory committee of the Centre for European Reform.Katalin BogyayKatalin Bogyay is the current Hungarian State Secretary of Culture. Previously she was Director General of the Hungarian Cultural Centre in London. In 1999 she led the UNESCO Communication Campaign for the World Conference on Science and in that same year she became a diplomat and began working for the Hungarian Ministry for Culture. Katalin started her career as a broadcaster on cultural topics. After the fall of communism in Hungary she studied media in democracy and she received a Masters in Communications from the University of Westminster. Katalin Bogyay also holds a postgraduate diploma in journalism.Simon GlendinningFellow in European Philosophy Simon received his DPhil from Oxford University and subsequently taught in the Philosophy Departments at the University of Kent and the University of Reading. In 2004 he left the security of his philosophical home to join the interdisciplinary European Institute at the LSE. He is the author of On Being With Others (1998), The Idea of Continental Philosophy (2006) and In the Name of Phenomenology (2007). He hopes that one day he will be able to write a book called In the Name of Europe. John NeubauerEmeritus professor in literature at the University of Amsterdam. Taught at Princeton and Pittsburgh and is now in Budapest where he is working on the project: History of the literary cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries, John Neubauer and Marcel Cornis Pope ed.Joep LeerssenProfessor of Modern European Literature. Joep Leerssen studied Comparative Literature and English at the University of Aachen and Anglo-Irish Studies at University College Dublin; he took his PhD in 1986 at the University of Utrecht. In that year he was appointed at the University of Amsterdam, where he obtained the chair in Modern European Literature in 1991. He served as director of the Huizinga Institute (Dutch National Research Institute for Cultural Studies) from1995 until 2006. He held the Erasmus Lectureship at Harvard University in 2003.