Het Maastricht Centre for European Governance organiseerde in samenwerking met het Montesquieu Instituut Maastricht een 5e Maastricht Monnet lezing op donderdag 15 november 2012.
CEO of Burson-Marsteller Brussels and respected Brussels based government relations veteran, David Earnshaw, will speak on "The "New Ethics of Lobbying" as part of the Maastricht Centre for European Governance´s Jean Monnet Lecture Series.
The lecture will be introduced by Dr. Michael Shackleton, Special Professor for European Institutions at the University of Maastricht.
David Earnshaw joined Burson-Marsteller as a Managing Director in June 2002 after having worked immediately before that with Oxfam as its lead spokesperson on EU affairs. Between 1995 and 2001 David was Director of European Government Affairs and Public Policy with SmithKline Beecham (now GSK), heading SmithKline Beecham's Brussels office. He was, inter alia, instrumental in ensuring the adoption of the controversial biotechnology patenting directive in 1998; and he conceived the 2003 Regulation on tiered pricing/trade diversion of medicines sold in developing countries. Prior to joining SmithKline Beecham in 1995 he was deputy managing director of GPC Market Access Europe. He currently teaches at the College of Europe, Bruges. He also worked in British government during the 1980s. David was a Labour candidate for a London constituency in the 1989 European Elections. He founded www.ukipwatch.org in 2004, devoted to monitoring the actions of anti-European MEPs in the 2004-2009 European Parliament.