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Mats Persson

Director, Open Europe

Mats Persson

Director, Open Europe

Biography

Mats Persson has been Director of Open Europe since 2010. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of Open Europe Berlin gGmbH, which he helped co-found in 2012. A frequent contributor to broadcast and print media, Mats has written extensively on European politics and economics, including the eurozone crisis, EU reform, trade, enlargement and the EU budget. Before Open Europe, he worked for a political consulting firm in Washington DC. Mats holds degrees from both Liberty University in Virginia and the London School of Economics. Open Europe is an award-winning, independent think tank that contributes bold new ideas on how to achieve political and economic reform in Europe: ‘Our vision is of an outward-looking, slimmed down EU that facilitates and encourages free trade, and that is democratic and accountable to citizens’.

All session by Mats Persson