The Villa Gillet
Founded in 1987, the Villa Gillet welcomes in Lyon fiction and non-fiction writers, artists and scholars from over the world to ponder issues relevant to our ever shiflting world. The Villa Gillet makes the work of exciting contemporary thinkers accessible to the largest audience possible, by organizing events during the year, and during its festivals : the International Forum on the Novel — happening every year in May since 2007— co-organized with "Le Monde", Walls and Bridges, a ten-day series of events that happened from 2011 to 2013 and Mode d'emploi : un festival des idées — a festival of public debates — initiated in 2012.
Goulard Sylvie
ALDE MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
France
Biography
Sylvie Goulard has been the ALDE (Alliance des Démocrates et des Libéraux pour l’Europe) party member of the European Parliament since 2009. An incumbent member of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee (ECON), she was the rapporteur of a text regarding improving the European Union’s economic governance. In 2010 she cofounded the Spinelli Group, composed of members of the European Parliament, university professors and politicians whose goal is to promote the idea of a federal, united Europe. She has just published De la démocratie en Europe (Flammarion), which she co-wrote with the president of the Council of Ministers, Mario Monti.