The EPP's Way to Number 1

Klaus Welle has chaired the Martens Centre’s Academic Council since April 2023. He previously served as chair of DEMYC (1991–4), before going on to serve as secretary general of the EUCD (1994–9), of the EPP (1994–9), of the EPP Group in the European Parliament (1999–2004) and of the European Parliament (2009–22). He is a Guest Professor in Practice at the London School of Economics, a Visiting Professor at KU Leuven and a Leader in Residence at the Moynihan Center of the Colin Powell School for Global Leadership in New York. Sara Pini is a Senior Research Officer at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies and the Assistant Editor-in-Chief of the Centre’s policy journal European View. Between 2014 and 2023, she was deputy head of office of the president of the EPP. She studied International and Diplomatic Sciences at the University of Bologna and European Studies at Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, and she completed a Master’s in Politics and Societies in Europe at Sciences Po Paris.