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Christophe Rouillon is the Mayor of Coulaines, the Second Vice-President of the Le Mans Métropole (responsible for budget and European funds), the Vice-President of the Association of French Mayors (responsible for Europe) and, since October 2019, the President of the PES Group in the European Committee of the Regions. In 2001, he was elected Mayor of Coulaines, and was reconfirmed in this position in the 2004, 2008, 2011 and 2014 local elections.

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Vasco Cordeiro was President of the Regional Government of the Azores from 2012 until 2020. He has been a member of the European Committee of the Regions since 2013, and First Vice-President of the Committee since 2020. In June 2022, he has been elected as President of the European Committee of the Regions.

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Since March 2023, Elly Schlein has been serving as the National Secretary of Partito Democratico (PD) in Italy. 

From 2014 to 2019, she served as a Member of the European Parliament for Italy. In 2020, she ran for regional elections in Emilia Romagna and was appointed Vice President and Regional Assessor with responsibilities for welfare and the Climate Pact.

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Javi López is an MEP from PSC-PSOE and a member of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) in the European Parliament since 2014. He serves as the Co-Chair of the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (EuroLat), and is a member of the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) as well as the Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE). In addition, he is a member of the Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee (D-MX) and of the Conference of Delegation Chairs (CPDE). He also acts as substitute in the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET).

At the European Level, his political involvement includes being a member of the Presidency of the Party of European Socialists (PES) and serving as the President of the PES Environment, Climate Change and Energy Network. Furthermore, he takes part as an ex-officio member in the Executive Committee of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC).

During the current term, he served as the Rapporteur for the European Parliament's report on the implementation of the Ambient Air Quality Directives. Presently, he is leading the negotiation of the revision of the Ambient Air Quality Directive as the European Parliament Rapporteur. 
 

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Laeticia Thissen works as a Senior Policy Analyst for Gender Equality at Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) where she is in charge of the foundation’s work related to women’s rights, equality anti-discrimination and gender mainstreaming issues. Committed to improving gender diversity in policy debates, she namely fosters FEPS efforts in promoting women’s voices, whether in publication, events or other types of activities across all thematic priorities of FEPS, including environment policy. 

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Kata Tüttő is a Hungarian politician and economist and, since October 2019, Deputy-Mayor of Budapest, responsible for utility management, including, waste, water, streetlights, and public transport. She is also chairing the Operational Group responsible for the city's responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a member of the European Committee of the Regions, she has been a rapporteur on several major opinions concerning climate and circular economy and she is the Vice-Chair of the Commission for the environment, climate change and energy. She has been part of the Committee of the Regions' delegation to the COP 26 in Glasgow.

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Christophe Clergeau has been a member of the European Parliament since June 2, 2023, and is a member of the S&D Group. He sits on the committees for Agriculture, Environment, and International Development. He also holds the position of Vice-President in the ACP-EU parliamentary assembly and is a member of the Parliament's maritime intergroup (SEARICA). Christophe is part of the national leadership of the French Socialist Party, serving as the National Secretary for Europe and co-Chairman of the Socialist Party's Europe Convention. His main European priorities encompass the industrial, food, and health sovereignty of the Union, as well as the ecological and energy transition of the European continent.

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Arianna Censi, a member of the PES Group in the European Committee of the Regions, has been the Local Councillor in charge of mobility of the Municipality of Milan since 2021. She is currently Rapporteur on the EU Hydrogen Bank and Vice-President of the commission for Territorial Cohesion Policy and EU Budget. She has deepened the path to the establishment of the Metropolitan City of Milan. During the past mandates, she was delegated as responsible for mobility, viability and human resources and as responsible for infrastructure maintenance, strategic planning, organisation, personnel and redevelopment. 

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A member of Dublin City Council (DCC) and a member of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR), Alison is Chair of the DCC Strategic Policy Committee on Housing, a member of the DCC Enterprise and Economic Development Committee and member of the CoR delegation to COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh and COP28 in Dubai. She is an advocate for local government at a city and regional level as a key enabler to realising a just transition to a more sustainable and inclusive socio-economic Europe. 

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Sandrine worked for 13 years in the sustainable mobility sector, within the non-profit organisation Mpact (formerly Taxistop), which she coordinated for over 10 years. During her time there, she initiated projects such as Cozywheels, a vehicle-sharing program among neighbours and Mobitwin, a volunteer transport service for people with mobility challenges.

With a passion for sustainable food, she joined Bruxelles Environnement in June 2022, where she now holds the position of Head of the Good Food department. Her role involves coordinating the Good Food Strategy 2, which aims to bring about a structural shift in Brussels' food system towards greater sustainability by 2030.