2025 - FES Future of Work - Policy Conference

Christina Kampmann is an executive board member of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and an SPD member of the North Rhine-Westphalia State Parliament since 2017. Her experience includes serving as the state's Minister for Family Affairs, Children, Youth, Culture, and Sport and a long-term focus on digital policy, including serving as the SPD parliamentary group's spokesperson for digital affairs at the state level until 2022.

Mrs. Florence Raes is the Director of the UN Women Brussels Liaison Office since 15 August 2023.

Previously, she served as Regional Director ai and Deputy Regional Director for UN Women in West and Central Africa from 2020, overseeing 24 countries with a focus on Women, Peace and Security, Women’s Economic Empowerment, and Humanitarian Action in the Sahel. She was also the UN Women Representative in Argentina, Paraguay, and Mozambique, where she expanded portfolios, forged partnerships, and achieved normative milestones like gender-sensitive economic policies and care frameworks.  

Before joining the UN, Mrs. Raes was an Associate Researcher and Professor at the University of Brussels, publishing on democratic transitions, Women’s Rights, and social movements. She also worked on global research programs and advised organizations like Oxfam, the UN, and the EU. Florence holds a master's degree in international relations from the University of Brussels and a master’s degree in Latin American Studies from the University of London. She is fluent in French, Dutch, English, Portuguese and Spanish.

Dr Marta Lasek-Markey is a  research fellow at the Trinity College Dublin ADAPT Centre for AI-driven digital content technology. She holds a PhD in Law and an LL.M. degree from Trinity College Dublin, as well as a master’s degree in Law from the University of Warsaw, Poland. She has published her research widely in leading academic journals and authored a monograph titled Law, Precarious Labour and Posted Workers. A Sociolegal Study on Posted Work in the EU (Routledge, 2023). Marta was also the recipient of the Brian Bercusson Award for outstanding research in EU Law presented by the European Trade Union Institute.

Laeticia Thissen is a Senior Policy Analyst for Gender Equality at Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) where she is in charge of the foundation’s work related to women’s rights, equality and anti-discrimination issues. Over the years, her work has focused on topics ranging from gender injustice to care work and gender-based violence. Before joining FEPS, she worked in the European Committee of the Regions and in the European Parliament. She holds a Master’s degree in European Studies from Maastricht University and in Gender Studies from ULB (Université Libre de Bruxelles). Additionally, she completed a post-academic specialisation course on ‘Migration, Ethnic Diversity and Intercultural Relationships’ and is a member of the Brussels Binder network, an initiative committed to improving gender diversity in policy debates and promoting women’s voices.

Mariam Camilla Rechchad is Policy Officer focusing on the impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Climate Change/Climate Change Mitigation on equality. She further supports Equinet’s work on Economic and Social Rights and their link with equality. Mariam holds a Masters degree in International Relations and Sociology. She has multiple years of interdisciplinary experience researching, monitoring, and  advocating around issues of equality and anti-discrimination in academia, civil society, and international NGOs.

Victoire Olczak is a dedicated researcher specialising in gender studies and European affairs. Her experience in associative, academic and institutional environments has given her a comprehensive approach to equality issues - especially gender equality. As a member of the think tank Gender Five Plus, she has authored and formally presented several policy papers addressing key EU policy issues from an intersectional and feminist perspective. She holds an MA in Human Rights from Sciences Po Paris and a BA in International Relations.

Agnes Hubert is a founding member and the current President of Gender Five Plus. She is a recognised european expert on gender policy making. She was in charge of the EU gender equality policy in the nineties and continued to work on gender issues as a member of the Commission in house think tank. She is currently a professor at the College of Europe, affiliate researcher at Science Po - PRESAGE  and member of the Haut Conseil de l’Egalité in France. She is the author of a recent book on “The European Union and Gender equality” published by FEPS/DIETZ in 2022. In 2014, she was awarded the “Legion d’Honneur” for having demonstrated an eminent merit in the service of European Integration and gender equality.

Aline Brüser  is  Advisor on Gender Equality at the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC). She holds a Bachelor’s degree in European Studies from the University of Bremen (Germany) and a Master’s Degree in Gender Studies and Social Policy from the University of Toulouse (France). At the ETUC, she has worked extensively on the EU Pay Transparency Directive and on trade-union led strategies securing equal pay and equal pay for work of equal value and a world of work free from gender-based violence.

Johannes Anttila is a policy expert whose work revolves around the questions of technology, technology policy, work, and workers. In collaboration with partners ranging from the UN, trade unions, Prime Ministers' Offices, and academia, his recent policy and research work has touched on themes of algorithmic management and algorithmic resistance, democratic AI governance, ethical technology development, and breakages of algorithmic systems. Johannes has been selected as one of the 35 under 35 Future Leaders on global governance, challenges of emerging technologies, and regulation by The Barcelona Center for International Relations and has served as chair and board member and the boards of directors of the think tank Demos Helsinki and the Finnish Information Society Development Centre TIEKE. Currently, Johannes is a policy advisor for the Left Group in the EMPL Committee at the European Parliament.