Noah's Ark Project: Policy

To redirect the outcome of the project to legislators at a European level, a Policy Advisory Panel has been planned within Noah's Ark, composed of members of the European Parliament's Committees on:

CRISTINA GUTIERREZ CORTINES (MEP)

Cristina Guti�rrez-Cortines graduated in Humanities (Zaragoza, 1962) and took her doctorate in art history. She has extensive academic experience, having been higher education teacher (1968-1970), temporary university lecturer (1970-1987), university lecturer (1987-1995) and Professor in history of art (1995-1999). Her research activity deals with art and architecture, urban planning and the history of urban development, as well as the use of new technologies in the field of art history. She has been Director of cultural events and evening courses at the University of Murcia (1978-1993) and Director of cultural events of the newspaper "La Verdad", Murcia (1989-1995). She subsequently became Minister of Education and Culture, Murcia Regional Government (1995-1999). She has been Member of the European Parliament (1999-2004) and Member of the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats. She has been Member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy, Member of Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (Substitute), Member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (Substitute).
She was re-elected deputy of the European Parliament on 13 June 2004. She is currently Member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and Member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (IRE).

GUIDO SACCONI (MEP)

Guido Sacconi was elected member of the European Parliament on 13 June 1999 in Constituency III of Central Italy with 39,250 preferences. Twice during the course of the legislature, he was appointed vice-president of the Commission for the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy. In this capacity, he was a delegate of the European Parliament at the world summit on sustainable development held in Johannesburg and at COP9 in Milan (UNO conference on the application of the Kyoto Protocol). He is currently a key member of the Citizens' Petitions Committee and of the Interparliamentary European Union Delegation - Turkey. He was re-elected deputy of the European Parliament on 13 June 2004 in Constituency III of Central Italy with more than 72,000 preferences. He is currently Member of the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.
Guido Sacconi was born in Udine in 1948. He moved to Florence in 1967 to pursue university studies in Philosophy, under Eugenio Garin, Cesare Luporini and the historian, Ernesto Ragionieri. Sacconi's political experience is both extensive and varied: on graduating in 1972, he became Director of the Study Office at the local Chamber of Labour of Florence, and in 1975 he joined the Provincial Secretariat of the FIOM (Metal Workers' Federation), of which he was elected general secretary in 1978. He was subsequently appointed Secretary of the Florence Chamber of Labour and, in 1990, was nominated Regional Secretary of the CGIL trade union. In 1992, for the first electoral campaign of the PDS, he was appointed Regional Party Secretary. He was elected to the Regional Council in 1995, and from 1995 to 1998, was also secretary of the Florence Metropolitan Union. Prior to joining the European Parliament, he was vice-president of the Regional Council of Tuscany. Guido Sacconi is a regular contributor to the newspapers La Repubblica and l'Unit�. A lover of the mountainside, he has been a member of the Italian Alpine Club since a very young age.