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|  Meet the team | Below you will find information & individual contact details for the company directors & other key members of the team. For more information on Forum Europe & the services we offer, please click here | | |  | | Dan Craft, Managing Director
Dan Craft is responsible, with James Wilmott, for the strategic and operational management of the company. Dan has expertise in media, telecommunications, internet policy, education and financial services, and heads up the Forum Europe team responsible for conferences and events in this area.
Dan Craft graduated from the University of Reading in 2002 with a BA (Hons) in Linguistics and then moved to the IT sector where he worked for a UK university advising on procurement and strategy.
Dan then became Conference Production Manager for Europe at a conference company where he was responsible for the day-to-day co-ordination of issue identification and project management. He was intensively involved in the delivery of events across a range of sectors. In 2005, alongside James Wilmott, Dan founded Epsilon Events which merged with Forum Europe SA in 2009.
Email: dan.craft@forum-europe.com
Tel: +44 (0) 2920 783 021
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| | James Wilmott, Managing Director
James Wilmott, alongside Dan Craft, is responsible for the strategic and operational management of the business. James has expertise in the internet/online, energy and environment, trade and security sectors and heads up the Forum Europe team in these areas.
James graduated from Lancaster University (Edge Hill) in 2002 with a degree in Communications (Hons) and spent a year undertaking research into European communications policy within the context of public perceptions of Europe and the EU in the UK, while also teaching at undergraduate degree level. He also undertook postgraduate research into notions of fandom, particularly in relation to videogames.
James then joined a large design and marketing company in the UK before spending a year at a European conference company as Marketing Manager for the European region. In 2005 James founded Epsilon Events with Dan Craft, which in turn merged with Forum Europe SA in 2009 to form the leading EU dedicated conference and event provider.
Email: james.wilmott@forum-europe.com
Tel: +44 (0) 2920 783 022
| | | |  | | Giles Merritt, President
Giles Merritt founded Forum Europe in 1989. Merritt’s background is as a journalist and commentator. From 1968-83, he was a staff correspondent of the Financial Times and reported successively from London, Paris, Belfast/Dublin and Brussels. From 1984 to the present day he has contributed columns on EU matters to the Op-Ed pages of the International Herald Tribune, and his articles range widely over political and economic issues.
Merritt is also the founder and Secretary General of Friends of Europe, the most focused of the three main think tanks in Brussels on reaching public opinion across Europe.
Merritt launched Europe’s World, the only Europe-wide policy journal in Autumn 2005 as a European counterpart to the US periodical Foreign Affairs. Europe’s World has no institutional, national or party political bias and is published in English and French in partnership with a coalition of over 100 think tanks and universities worldwide, and now has over 100, 000 readers in 171 countries.
In addition, Merritt is the co-founder and Director of the Security and Defence Agenda (the SDA), the only think tank in Brussels that concentrates solely on security and defence issues.
Merritt’s work with think tanks began in the mid-1980s, when he devised and chaired a series of Business Policy Seminars on behalf of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). He went on to act as Moderator at the French-language debates organised by the Club de Bruxelles, and at many of the conferences held by Aspen Institute Italia. From 1992 until 1999 he was the Director of the Philip Morris Institute for Public Policy Research (PMI), and was responsible for its highly successful series of quarterly Discussion Papers.
Email: giles.merritt@forum-europe.com
Tel: +44 (0) 2920 783 020
| | | |  | | Geert Cami, Director
Geert Cami headed Forum Europe’s team of experienced European Affairs and press specialists between May 1996 and July 2008, before he passed over the day-to-day management to James Wilmott and Dan Craft. He remains active as a Director on the Forum Europe board. Geert is also the publisher of Europe’s World, the only Europe-wide policy Journal, and Founding Director of two Brussels-based thinktanks: the Security and Defence Agenda, and Friends of Europe, one of Europe’s liveliest thinktanks for EU policy analysis and debate.
Before joining Forum Europe, Geert worked for more than three years in the European Commission’s Information and Communications Unit of the then newly set-up European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO).
Email: geert.cami@forum-europe.com
Tel: +44 (0) 2920 783 020
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| | Kirstie Fagan, Senior Event Manager
Kirstie joined Forum Europe in 2009 after graduating from the University of Leeds with a 2.1 in Theology and Religious Studies. She leads on a number of events within the company portfolio, in particular in the areas of trade, sustainability and energy.
In addition, Kirstie has responsibility for the training and development of new members of the Forum Europe team in partnership with the Directors, and oversees delegate communications, database management and the coordination of the company website. She enjoys reading and walking and has a keen interest in both European and British politics.
Email: kirstie.fagan@forum-europe.com
Tel: +44 (0) 2920 783 026
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Charlene Selmer, Senior Event Manager
Charlene leads on a wide range of events across the business and has particular experience working on client projects. Alongside Kirstie, she assists with the training and development of new team members. Charlene joined Forum Europe in 2010 after graduating from Cardiff University with a 2:1 in German and Spanish.
She has an advanced level in both of these languages and has a strong interest in European culture and current affairs.
Email: charlene.selmer@forum-europe.com
Tel: +44 (0) 2920 783 024
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|  | | Tom Chinnock, Event Development Executive
Tom joined Forum Europe from the Welsh Assembly Government where he was responsible for monitoring technology and business innovation projects. Tom is certified in PRINCE2 and Programme Management. Tom is a fluent French speaker and has a strong interest in technology and international affairs.
Tom received a 2:1 with honours from Keele University where he studied Modern Languages, International History and Relations.
Email: tom.chinnock@forum-europe.com
Tel: +44 (0) 2920 783 025
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| | Anne-Lise Simon, Event Development Executive
Anne-Lise is currently completing her training placement. She has a Business and Foreign Languages Masters from the University of Nantes, France and a First Class degree in English, Spanish, Chinese, International Trade, Marketing, Logistics and Law. Anne-Lise has held various marketing and communications roles within the UK prior to joining Forum Europe and is currently working on a number of client events. Anne-Lise is a native French speaker and is also competent in Spanish and Mandarin.
Email: anne-lise.simon@forum-europe.com
Tel: +44 (0) 2920 783 023
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| | David Moseley, Event Administration Executive
David is currently completing his training placement with Forum Europe after graduating from Cardiff University with a degree in Criminology and Sociology. David manages online delegate registrations and pre-conference communication aswell as undertaking various administrative tasks in support of the business.
David has held various event management roles in the charity and not-for-profit sector prior to joining Forum Europe, and continues his involvement in fundraising on a voluntary basis.
Email: david.moseley@forum-europe.com
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| | Roberta Bonometti, Press Officer
Roberta Bonometti, a profesional journalist based in London, is Forum Europe’s Press Officer. Fluent in Italian, English, German, French and Russian, her work brings her into daily contact with major newspapers all over Europe. Her experience with Forum Europe has included handling assignments for the OECD, the UN, the European Commission, the Andean and Asean Communities and a number of corporations and NGOs.
Email: info@forum-europe.com
Tel: +44 (0) 2920 783 020
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| | John Hate, Designer
In 2007 John founded Hatedesign after seven years experience of working within the design industry and also achieving a BA Hons degree in graphic design at university. He specialises in branding and corporate identity, advertising and the design of brochures and corporate literature and has formed a firm relationship with Epsilon Events and Forum Europe producing a strong visual identity.
Hatedesign also works with Grayling in Brussels and through Forum Europe, has produced design work for clients such as ETNO, The Authentics Foundation, Johnson and Johnson, The British Chamber of Commerce in Belgium and The European Heart Network.
With a range of personal creative interests including Illustration, live music & music production, film & photography, singing, traveling and of course growing beards he calls on all of these influences to keep his design fresh and his creative flair alive.
You can find out more about John and his work at www.hatedesign.co.uk.
Email: info@forum-europe.com
Tel: +44 (0) 2920 783 020
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