Hedge funds and Private Equity - PES

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This report has become a reality thanks to the determination of Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, President
of the Party of European Socialists and Ieke van den Burg, MEP, PES coordinator in
ECON. We also thank Pervenche Berès, MEP, Chair of ECON and the MEPs actively involved
in the Contact Group created for this project: Harald Ettl, Peter Skinner and others. The support
of the PES Group Bureau was also very warmly welcome.
Our work has benefited greatly from the input given by the following experts and observers:
Michel Aglietta, Paris X University and Scientific advisor to CEPII, France;
Christen Amby, Denmark;
Pierre Bollon, France;
Giovanni Federico di Corato, Member of the Board of FOPEN, Italy;
Simon Cox, EFFAT, Brussels;
Reiner Hoffmann, ETUI-REHS, Brussels;
Sam Ironside, UNI-Europa, Brussels;
Jeppe F. Jörgensen, University of Potsdam and Berlin School of Economics, Germany;
Lothar Kamp, Hans Böckler Stiftung, Germany;
Dr. Norbert Kluge, ETUI-REHS, Germany;
Dr. Roland Köstler, Hans Böckler Stiftung, Germany;
Mick McAteer, Independent Consumer Advocate, UK;
William Melody, Center for ICT, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark;
Dr. Norbert Wieczorek, ex-MP, Germany;
Andrew Watt, ETUI-REHS, Brussels;
Paul Windolf, University Trier, Germany.
In addition, we want to add to this list the names of those who have also provided highly valuable
written input to our draft report, in the way of drafting case studies, providing sources of information
and data or making specific research/comments: Stéphane Janin; Peter Rossman, IUF,
Switzerland; Johannes Heuschmid, legal expert, Berlin; Sebastian Sick, Alexandra Krieger, Hans
Böckler Stiftung, Düsseldorf; Sigurt Vitols, Science Center, Berlin; Dr. Volker Telljohann,
Institute for Labour Foundation, Bologna.
A special thank to Annabel Garnier, Political advisor, PES Group and Jonas J. Møller, assistant,
whose commitment have made this project a reality. It goes without saying that Morten Damm
Krogh and Tina Højlund Pedersen from the Office of Poul Nyrup Rasmussen have been more
than helpful to keep the project on the right tracks.
This report does not necessarily express the views of the PES, its member parties or its
Parliamentary Group.
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