Francesca Poggiali
Chief Public Policy Officer Europe – GS1
Biography
Francesca Poggiali is Chief Public Policy Officer Europe at GS1 and Chair of Digital for Green at AIOTI. Among her biggest achievements so far, there are the corporate social responsibility program for Ferrero, the convergence of environmental protection and chemical industry impacts in the framework of the EU Chemical reform, the fight against illicit trade through open non-proprietary standards for GS1.
Francesca studied Corporate Social Responsibility at the Harvard Business School, European Law at Leeds University and at LUISS University in Rome where she received the highest recognition cum laude.
Organisation
GS1
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Speaker session
We are the champions - Celebrating product safety advances
Protecting consumers from dangerous products requires a collective effort from all the stakeholders: regulators at national, regional and global level, businesses and consumers alike. This session will showcase examples of recent product safety advances and the heroes behind them.
Speakers:
- Brigitte Acoca - Head, Consumer Policy Unit, Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD); OECD Committee on Consumer Policy; OECD Working Party on Consumer Product Safety
- Vinciane Baudoin - Project Manager, Ligue des familles
- Trista Hamsmith - Founder, Reese’s Purpose
- Bogomil Nikolov - Member of the European Economic and Social Committee, Director of the Bulgarian Active Consumers Association
- Susana Pratt - Policy Senior Assistant, Unit Product Safety and Rapid Alert System, European Commission
- Luca Vahrenwald - CEO, TerrainQ Solutions
- Rudie Vella - Director, Malta Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (MCCAA)
Susana Pratt
Policy Senior Assistant, Unit Product Safety and Rapid Alert System, European Commission
Biography
Susana has been working in the European Commission for more than 20 years, managing events and several projects in the area of external and internal communication. In these last years she has been working in the Product Safety and Rapid Alert unit, managing alerts submitted in Safety Gate and the corresponding website. Susana has also been managing several communication campaigns and organising several events, including the EU Product Safety Award. Apart from the tasks, Susana is also responsible for assembling the statistics and the annual report about the functioning of Safety Gate and the organisation of the related annual event with EU media.
Organisation
European Commission
European Commission
Speaker session
We are the champions - Celebrating product safety advances
Protecting consumers from dangerous products requires a collective effort from all the stakeholders: regulators at national, regional and global level, businesses and consumers alike. This session will showcase examples of recent product safety advances and the heroes behind them.
Speakers:
- Brigitte Acoca - Head, Consumer Policy Unit, Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD); OECD Committee on Consumer Policy; OECD Working Party on Consumer Product Safety
- Vinciane Baudoin - Project Manager, Ligue des familles
- Trista Hamsmith - Founder, Reese’s Purpose
- Bogomil Nikolov - Member of the European Economic and Social Committee, Director of the Bulgarian Active Consumers Association
- Susana Pratt - Policy Senior Assistant, Unit Product Safety and Rapid Alert System, European Commission
- Luca Vahrenwald - CEO, TerrainQ Solutions
- Rudie Vella - Director, Malta Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (MCCAA)
Didier Reynders
EU Commissioner for Justice, European Commission
Biography
A father of four, Didier Reynders was born in Liège on 6th August 1958. In 1981, he obtained a degree in law at the University of Liège. Guest lecturer at the universities of Liège and Louvain, he has never really left the academic life until he became on 1th December 2019 European Commissioner for Justice.
After presiding the Belgian railways and the Belgian Airways Agency, he was elected Deputy Chairman of the PRL (Liberal party), before becoming a Member of Parliament in 1992.
On 12th July 1999, he became Minister of Finance (until 6th December 2011) and, on 18th July 2004, (concurrently) Deputy Prime Minister (until 30th November 2019).
He was Chairman of the Mouvement Réformateur (liberal party alliance) from 11th October 2004 until 14th February 2011.
He was Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and European Affairs from 6th December 2011 until 11th October 2014.
He became Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Affairs, in charge of Beliris and Federal Cultural Institutions on 11th October 2014 (until 30th November 2019).
He has also been Minister of Defense since 9 December 2018.
Since 1th December 2019 he is European Commissioner for Justice, in charge of Rule of Law and Consumer Protection
Organisation
European Commission
Speaker session
We are the champions - Celebrating product safety advances
Protecting consumers from dangerous products requires a collective effort from all the stakeholders: regulators at national, regional and global level, businesses and consumers alike. This session will showcase examples of recent product safety advances and the heroes behind them.
Speakers:
- Brigitte Acoca - Head, Consumer Policy Unit, Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD); OECD Committee on Consumer Policy; OECD Working Party on Consumer Product Safety
- Vinciane Baudoin - Project Manager, Ligue des familles
- Trista Hamsmith - Founder, Reese’s Purpose
- Bogomil Nikolov - Member of the European Economic and Social Committee, Director of the Bulgarian Active Consumers Association
- Susana Pratt - Policy Senior Assistant, Unit Product Safety and Rapid Alert System, European Commission
- Luca Vahrenwald - CEO, TerrainQ Solutions
- Rudie Vella - Director, Malta Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (MCCAA)