New Direction - The Foundation for European Reform

New Direction - The Foundation for European Reform
founded in the year	2010
City	Brussels
Country	Belgium
Website	http://newdirectionfoundation.org/
address	Rue d`Arlon 40, 1000 Brüssel, Belgien
Networks	Think Tank, New Direction Foundation
Last revision	19.11.2012
Presence of Think Tank affiliates in the various fieldsWe try to capture where people affiliated with a Think Tank - affiliates are employees, members of the advisory and supervisory board etc. - are present: if they write in the media, teach in universities or work for another Think Tank. The chart down below shows in which fields the affiliates are present. Every presence is counted once.
People n = 17
Presences n = 147
<pPie size=330x200 Legend> Think Tank,17 Business,10 Media,51 Politics,40 Academia,20 NGO,9 </pPie>
Kind of activities of Think Tank affiliatesWe try to capture where people affiliated with a Think Tank - affiliates are employees, members of the advisory and supervisory board etc. - are present: if they write in the media, teach in universities or work for another Think Tank. The chart down below shows which kind of activities the affiliates conduct. Every presence is counted once.
<pPie size=330x200 Legend> Author,33 Leader (CEO etc.),26 Consultant,6 Editor,4 Interviewee,15 Member,30 Participant,2 Lecturer,11 Employee,20 </pPie>

The following coordinate was not recognized: 50.8397759;4.3721799.The following coordinate was not recognized: 50.8397759;4.3721799. New Direction – The Foundation for European Reform (NDF) is a European, political foundation. The NDF is an alliance of right-wing, free-market radical think tanks. It was founded in 2010 in Brussels, Belgium and is aligned to the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists (AECR).

Organizational Structure and Funding

Margaret Thatcher, former British Primeminister, is the partroness of the NDF. The think tank is run by a four-member managemnt team and a five-member supervisory board. The NDF staff consists of six employees. The NDF is a foundation at European level and for that reason receives funding from the European Parliament. From 2010-2012 the NDF was granted to following sums:

• 2010: 659,651€
• 2011: 747,210€
• 2012: 841,397€

Address

Rue d`Arlon 40, 1000 Brüssel, Belgien

People

Executive board

People leading the Think Tank in the day to day business (CEOs, directorates etc.).

• Derk Jan Eppink, Vice-president and treasurer

• Geoffrey Van Orden, President

• Tom Miers (since 2012), Director

• Edvard Kožušník, Vice-president

• Tomasz Piotr Poręba, Vice-president

Staff

People working for the Think Tank (Fellows etc.). This includes also part-time employees.

• Catinca Hanganu (formerly), Intern

• Shane Frith (formerly), Director

• Hardy Bouillon, Research Coordinator

• Johana Grohova (formerly), Communications Manager

• Guillaume Périgois, Deputy Director (Budget and Operations)

• Krzysztof Grzelczyk, Poland and Eastern Neighbourhood Coordinator

• Catherine Bray (formerly), Director of the US outreach

Advisory board

People advising the Think Tank (mainly in scientific questions)

• Giles Merritt

• Norman Stone

• Frits Bolkestein

• Zdzislaw Krasnodebski

• Vikram Sood

Budget

• Budget 2011: 747,210€: According to the EU-Parliament: www.europarl.europa.eu/pdf/grants/grant_amounts_foundations_per_01-03-2012.pdf

• Budget 2010: 659,651€: According to the EU-Parliament: www.europarl.europa.eu/pdf/grants/grant_amounts_foundations_per_01-03-2012.pdf

• Budget 2012: 841,397€: According to the EU-Parliament: www.europarl.europa.eu/pdf/grants/grant_amounts_foundations_per_01-03-2012.pdf

Detailed funding activities

If possible we also list more detailed funding activities of Think Tanks. This includes funds they emit as well as funds they receive.

Received funds

• EU Relaunch, Czech Republic (2011) Funding of 2,653,000 €.

• Highnett Consulting Ltd, UK (12000000)

• ARX Studio S.R.O., Czech Republic (2011) Funding of 12,000,000 €.

• Atlas Economic Research Foundation (2011) Funding of 12,000,000 €.

• Frank Stronach Institut, Austria (2011) Funding of 12,000,000 €.

• Namca BVBA, Belgium (2011) Funding of 3,752,230 €.

• Interstock Anstalt, Lichtenstein (2011) Funding of 12,000,000 €.

• http://James Paul Peron (2011) Funding of 12,000,000 €.

• http://Milan Rederer, Slovakia (2011) Funding of 12,000,000 €.

• http://Manfred Kastner (2011) Funding of 10,000,000 €.

• http://Tibor Takac, Slovakia (2011) Funding of 12,000,000 €.

• http://Jana Ruzicka (2011) Funding of 12,000,000 €.

Working mode, goals

The NDF is not only a think tank, but a think tank network. Studies, published by the NDF, are partly or entirely conducted by partners belonging to the network. According to the foundation’s audit report more than 50% of its financial ressources were spent on studies.

Topics

We used the DGs of the EU to generate a basic list of topics. This list is going to be steadily extended. However we try to preserve a persistent list of topics.