The future of connectivity: turbocharging Europe’s competitiveness

Kim Jørgensen currently holds the position of Director General and Permanent Representative of the European Investment Bank to the EU institutions in Brussels. Previously, he worked at the European Commission where he was Head of Cabinet to Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager. Jørgensen has held various positions within the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and served as Denmark’s Ambassador to Turkey and Permanent Representative of Denmark to the EU. He also spent two years as State Secretary for Foreign Policy at the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Prior to his current role as lead negotiator on the Gigabit Infrastructure Act at the European Parliament, Alin Mituța was also Renew Europe’s rapporteur on other important files such as the Data Act and the European Digital Identity Framework, playing a central role in shaping Europe’s legislative framework in the digital and telecommunication areas. Before his tenure as MEP, he served as secretary of state and chief of staff to the Romanian Prime Minister and held various roles in the European Union’s institutions. Mituța also co-founded two major and highly influential civic platforms in Romania, RO100 and Europuls and is also a co-founder of the centrist REPER party.

Dr Anita Orban is the Director of Public Affairs at Vodafone Group, prior to which she served as the external affairs director of Vodafone Hungary and vice-chairwoman of its board. She is the former vice-president for international affairs at Tellurian LNG. Orban has also worked as the chief advisor for Cheniere Marketing Ltd, Hungarian ambassador-at-large for energy security of Hungary, as well as the director of the Constellation Energy Institute, a think tank that facilitates cooperation in the central-eastern European energy sector. The author of “Power, Energy and the New Russian Imperialism”, she is recognised as one of the most influential female business leaders by Forbes Hungary and the recipient of the Woman Executive of the Year in Energy Award. She is also a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, the Board of Globsec and Co-Founder of the Women in Technology Association.