Dr. Qvortrup: Welcome Mr. President

The Europeans now have their first President of Europe since Napoleon.(EU, EU President, Herman Van Rompoy, Tony Blair, Baroness Ashton, EU foreign minister, Dr. Mads Qvortrup. Qvortrup’s cab, Napoleon, Caesar, )

The Europeans now have their first “President of Europe” since Napoleon. But particularly one difference sticks out –  Mads Qvortrup’s comments from Brussels.

By Mads Qvortrup. Cameraman/editor: Jan Rørkær. Produced by: Anette von Benzon

Bio: Professor Mads Qvortrup

Mads Qvortrup received his doctorate in philosophy from University of Oxford in 1999. He served as an adviser to the British government and a speech writer for Tony Blair, among others. Currently Mads Qvortrup is attached to the UN as a peace mediator in the Sudan, where earlier this year (2009) he was a member of a task force sent by Barack Obama.

Mads Qvortrup is the author of five books on politics, including a book on Danish prime ministers, Fogh, Kragh, Schlüter og Stauning (Borgen 2009), as well as A Comparative Study of Referendums  (Manchester University Press 2005). He has written for such newspapers as the  Guardian, the Glasgow Herald and the Sunday Express, and he often appears as an expert on BBC World and Danmarks Radio (Danish Broadcasting Corporation).

In addition to being a journalist and adviser, Mads Qvortrup taught for five years at the world-famous London School of Economics and was a guest professor at the University of Sydney in Australia.

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