Team

Agnès HUBERT

Gender Issues, Fundamental Rights, Employment and Social policies, Internal/External Coherence.

Back from a 2 years secondment to the European Parliament, this ex-member of the Forward Studies Unit and of the Governance team, joined BEPA in December 2004. 

After having graduated in Economics and in Political Science from the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), she became an economic journalist.  She joined the European Commission in 1981 where she has held responsibilities in 3 fields: Development & cooperation (international commodity agreements); information & communication (information Europe – 1/3 world) and social & employment policy (head of the Unit Equal Opportunities for Women). 

She is the author of two books (“L’Europe et les femmes, identities en movement”, ed. Apogée, and co-author of “Democracy and Information Society in Europe”, in Forward Studies series – Kogan page), and numerous articles and academic contributions. 

In 1998-99, she was a “European Union Fellow” in Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy (Tufts University, Mass. USA).  She developed a seminar on the “EU and Gender”.