Speakers
Sybille Reichert
After graduating in Brussels and Heidelberg, and to take doctor’s degree on Yale’s University on 1994, Sybille Reichert has been employed like consulting at Politics of Top Education for 11 years, specializing in topics of strategic development, internationalization and structural reforms of the universities in Europe.
Together with Christian Tauch, “Trends IV” has directed the study of follow-up of the process of Bologna” for the EUA of the year 2005 in Glasgow and Ministers’ Europeos conference of Education in Bergen (May, 2005).
Eric Froment
Eric Froment is a Professor of Economics at the University of Lumière-Lyon 2 (France), and has been President of the European University Association (EUA) since 2001.
In this position, his work has been to ensure that universities in Europe speak with a single voice, and that the fundamental role of universities is recognized in both the field of research and the Bologna process.
Dr. Froment received a Master’s degree in Economics and Political Science from the Université de Lyon, and a Doctorate in Economics from the Université de la Sorbonne (1971). At the Université de Lyon 2, he was elected Dean of the Faculty of Economics (1973-1977), Vice-president of the university (1978-1981), and finally President (1991-1996). He has also worked on government-university contract policy for the French Ministry of Education (1996-1998), and served as Treasurer of the Association of European Universities (CRE) (1994-1998), and Chief Executive of the French National Conference of University Presidents (1998-2001). He was responsible for the launch of a European pilot project for the exchange of professors in the social sciences between the Université de Lyon 2, the Universidad de Barcelona, and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt.













