Sylvie Goulard

IEP@BU Vice President
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Sylvie Goulard

Sylvie Goulard is President of the Deutsch Französisches Institut (Ludwigburg, Germany) and Vice President of the Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi University (Milano, Italy). She is also Professor of Practice at SDA Bocconi.

In June 2023, she was designated co-chair (with Dame Amelia Fawcett) of a Franco British initiative aiming at creating nature related financial instruments to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss.

From January 2018 to December 2022, she was deputy governor of the Banque de France / Eurosystem with a portfolio comprising international issues, research, public financial education and financial stability issues, including those related to climate and the monitoring of the secretariat of the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) that coordinates the work of around 120 Central Banks and supervisors committed to tackle climate related financial risks and encourage sustainable development. Within the NGFS, Mrs Goulard co-chaired the Task Force on nature-related risks.

After the presidential election in 2017, Mrs Goulard was Minister of Defense in the first Edouard Philippe Government.

From 2009 to 2017, she served as a member of the European Parliament (ALDE group / Econ committee).

She was before a political advisor to Romano Prodi during his time as President of the European Commission and Chair of the French European Movement.

In 2009 she received an award (Prix du livre Européen) for her book L’Europe pour les Nuls.

 

European Policies

Europeans Deserve Better
2023

The way the EU Commission and governments envisage launching future enlargements without strengthening the EU in parallel could have negative consequences for all Europeans, in the EU and in candidate countries.

Conferences

European Parliament Elections: What the Result Might Mean for Europe's Future
22/04/2024 - 22/04/2024
AULA FRANCESCHI - BOCCONI UNIVERSITY, VIA SARFATTI 25

As Europe prepares for the 2024 elections to the European Parliament in June, this panel brings together European thought leaders to discuss the implications of the elections for the EU's future.
With: Catherine De Vries, Sylvie Goulard, Isabell Hoffmann, Eleanor Spaventa.

Prospects for stability, growth and cohesion in the Eurozone
23/10/2023 - 25/10/2023
Villa Vigoni, Menaggio (CO)

Seminar organized by the Franco-German Institute (dfi) in collaboration with the IEP@BU, featuring the presence of researchers from French, German and Italian universities and think tanks.

 

wEUbinars

A IEP@BU Webinar Series: The Future of the EU Institutions
25/03/2024 - 25/03/2024
WEBINAR

In view of the European Parliamentary elections IEP@BU is launching a series of webinars on the future of the EU institutions. Whereas, there has not been any Treaty change since the Lisbon Treaty, the role of the European Council, the European Commission and the European Parliament have evolved considerably in the past 15 years or so. The inaugural digital event will take place on March, 25, 12.30-14.00 with the following speakers: Giuliano Amato; Sylvie Goulard; Mario Monti; Eleanor Spaventa.

Seminars

Towards a more sustainable world: which role for Central Banks?
19/03/2024 - 19/03/2024
CANCELED

We will host as our guest speaker Sabine Mauderer, Chair of Central Banks and Supervisors NGFS (Network for Greening the Financial System) and Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank.

IEP@BU - ECFR Working lunches

L’allargamento e il futuro dell’Unione Europea
06/12/2023 - 06/12/2023
@Rome

Il secondo appuntamento di una serie di tre working lunch realizzati congiuntamente da ECFR Roma, SDA Bocconi e l’Institute for European Policymaking @ Bocconi University.