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Rajendra K Jain of European Studies and Director, Europe Area Studies Programme, Centre for European Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal University, new Delhi. He was Network Coordinator of the JNU European Union Studies Programme (financed by the European Commission) (2002-2004). He was formerly Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow at the University of Constance and Visiting fellow at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London and the Foundation of Science and Politics, Germany. He has been Visiting Professor at the universities of Leipzig and Tuebingen and Maison des Sciences de I’Homme, Paris. He has published nearly sixty journal articles an is the author/editor of over twenty books, including India and the European Union in the 21st Century and the European Union in a Changing World.

Prof. Gert W. Kueck is the Resident Representative of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, and independent non profit-making German association, to India since 1993. Being a student of developmental economics and political science, he achieved some knowledge in the field of oriental studies too. After he graduated with a PhD in economics, he stated an impressive academic career teaching international trade and economic relations with special reference to Afro-Asian and Latin American countries. Several times and for many years, he was able to enrich his academic experience by various practical activities, mainly as an advisor to big companies and in the framework of the United Nations system. He has participated actively in a great number of important conferences at the multinational level and has authored a number of books as well as contributed to scientific journals.