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Doc. 84297 June 1999
Appointment of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe
Communication
Committee of Ministers
Letter from the Chairman of the Ministers' Deputies to the President of the Assembly, dated 25 May 1999
Mr President,
I have the honour to refer to the procedure for the election of the Secretary General and to inform you that the Ministers' Deputies today adopted Resolution (99) 6 containing the list of candidates for the post of Secretary General drawn up by the Committee of Ministers. A copy of the resolution is enclosed.
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Signed:
Sveinn Björnsson
RESOLUTION (99) 6
ON THE APPOINTMENT TO THE POST OF
SECRETARY GENERAL
(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 20 May 1999,
at the 671st meeting of the Ministers' Deputies)
The Committee of Ministers, under the terms of Article 36.b of the Statute of the Council of Europe,
Having regard to the Rules of Procedure for appointment to the posts of Secretary General, Deputy Secretary General and Clerk of the Assembly having the rank of Deputy Secretary General;
Having examined the three candidatures presented by the Governments of Austria, Poland and the United Kingdom;
Having interviewed the three candidates;
Having consulted the Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly in the Joint Committee;
Decides to transmit to the Parliamentary Assembly, for consideration for appointment to the post of Secretary General, with effect from 1 September 1999, the following candidatures, listed in alphabetical order, with the names of the sponsoring governments in brackets:
Mr Terry Davis (United Kingdom)
Mr Walter Schwimmer (Austria)
Mrs Hanna Suchocka (Poland).
Curriculum vitae of Mr Terry Davis
Date of birth: 5 January 1938
Education
Terry Davis studied French, German and European History to obtain admission to London University where he gained an honours degree in Law in 1960. He was awarded a Student Leadership Scholarship to the University of Michigan (USA) and graduated as Master of Business Administration (cum summa laude) having specialised in economics and finance.
Management experience for fourteen years
On returning to the United Kingdom, Terry Davis worked as a senior manager in industry — originally being employed as a management auditor by an international oil company and eventually working as a general manager in the automotive industry with responsibility for 2 000 people and a budget of more than £20 million. During this period, he also served as a member of a local authority.
Member of parliament for twenty-two years
1980-87: Parliamentary Spokesperson for the Labour Party on health, economic affairs and industrial policy
1987-94 Member of the Public Accounts Committee which examines the efficiency of government departments
Member of the UK delegation to the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly since 1992
— elected Leader of Labour delegation (1995)
— elected Leader of UK delegation (1997)
— member of Economic Affairs and Development Committee since 1992; Chairperson of the committee (1995-98); Rapporteur for EBRD (1994), North-South Campaign (1997) and OECD (1998)
— member of Political Affairs Committee since 1996; Rapporteur for Georgia (1997-98)
— member of Monitoring Committee since 1997; Rapporteur for Latvia (1997-98)
Member of the UK delegation to the WEU Assembly since 1992
Chairperson of the Rules Committee (1995-96) — President of the Socialist Group since 1996
Member of the UK delegation to the OSCE Assembly since 1997 and the IPU Conference in September 1998
Other organisations
Member of the UK Parliamentary Human Rights Group, Fabian Society, Greenpeace, Globe UK, Socialist Environmental and Resources Association, Socialist Health Association and United Nations Association
Family
Married for thirty-five years
— his wife is also active in politics, has held public office and now has her own business as a management consultant
— one daughter who works for an environmental NGO
— one son who is a self-employed consultant to international mining companies.
Curriculum vitae of Mr Walter Schwimmer
Member of the Austrian Parliament (Nationalrat)
Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Born 16 June 1942 in Vienna, Austria. Married to Marina Pucher-Schwimmer, 2 sons
Education
University of Vienna
Law Faculty, doctorate in law
Post-graduate studies in social and labour law
Professional career
Gewerkschaft der Privatangestellten (Trade Union), Law Department, 1964
Österr. Arbeiter- un Angestelltenbund, (Austrian Federation of Workers and Employees), Head of Social Affairs Department, 1971
Österr. Arbeiter- und Angestelltenbund, Vienna branch, Head of Political Office, 1976
Wiener Gebiestskrankenkasse (Vienna Health Insurance Fund)
Head of Dept. for Fees, Insurance and Audit, 1979
Deputy Director General, 1984
Political career
Member of the Austrian Parliament (Nationalrat) since 1971, Vice-Chairman of the parliamentary group of the ÖVP (Austrian People's Party) from 1986 to 1994, Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Social Affairs from 1978 to 1989, Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Health from 1989 to 1994, Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Justice in 1995, Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Housing and Construction since 1995.
Council of Europe: Member of the Austrian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly since 1991. Chairman of the Group of the European People's Party — Christian Democrats since 1996. Member of the Bureau, President of the Sub-Committee on International Economic Relations, Vice-President of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, rapporteur on various issues including monitoring of member states (Romania, Slovakia, Turkey); Vice-President of the Assembly in 1996.
Lectures/publications
Lectures on various issues (social, health, housing, general political affairs) in Austria and abroad: France, Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland, UK, USA.
Die Christlichen Gewerkschaften in Österreich, Europa-Verlag
Die sozialen Folgen der Inflation, Verlag Orac
Ein Verein macht Geschichte, Verlag Holzhausen
Several articles on issues concerning social, health, housing and general political affairs.
Working languages
German, English, French
Curriculum vitae of Mrs Hanna Suchocka
Personal
Date of birth: 3.04.1946
Place of birth: Pleszew, Voivodship of Poznań, Poland
Nationality: Polish
Family status: single
Academic qualifications
1968 Master of Law, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
1975 Doctor of Law, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
Languages
Mother tongue: Polish
Very good knowledge: English, French, German, Russian
Political positions
1980-85 Member of the parliament of Poland, Democracy
1980- Member of Solidarity
1989- Member of the Parliament of Poland, Democracy Union (later: Union for Freedom) Parliamentary Caucus,
1989-97 Member of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs and the Constitutional Committee of the National Assembly
1991-92, Member of the Polish delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of 1994-97 Europe
1992-93 Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland
1997- Minister of Justice, Attorney General
Other professional activities/functions
General
1968-90 Researcher and Lecturer of Constitutional Law, Faculty of Law, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
1980 Participant of the Leiden-Amsterdam Columbia Summer Programme on American Law
1985-86 Research on comparative and international law relating to national minorities, Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public and Public International Law in Heidelberg
1988-93 Professor of Constitutional Law, Catholic University, Lublin
1994 - Professor of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Rome
1995 Visiting Professor, Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
1996-97 Chair of the Polish-Ukrainian Forum
1990- Research Officer, Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of State and Law, Human Rights Centre, Poznań
1994- Member of the Board of Governors of the European Cultural Foundation, Amsterdam
Activities within the Council of Europe
1990- Member of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission), Partial Agreement of the Council of Europe
1991-92, Member of the parliamentary delegation of the Republic of Poland to the
1994-97 Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
1992 Substitute member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
1992-97, Member of the Political Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the (with intervals) Council of Europe
1992 Chair of the parliamentary delegation of the Republic of Poland to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
1992 Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
1993-94 Member of the Sub-Committee for Contacts with the United Nations of the Political Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Sept. 1995 Rapporteur at the 8th International Colloquy on the European Convention on Human Rights in Budapest (report on “Effects on the European Convention on Human Rights of the enlargement of the number of contracting parties”)
Nov. 1996 Rapporteur, Conference on European Constitutional Heritage, Faculty of Law, Montpellier University (report on “European constitutional heritage and social particularities”)
1997-98 Member of the Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee); co-rapporteur of group monitoring Croatia
May 1997 Rapporteur, Strasbourg Conference on “Social Charter for the XXIst Century” (report on “The Social Charter and the states of central and eastern Europe”)
Sept. 1998 General Rapporteur, Strasbourg European Regional Colloquy “In our Hands. The Effectiveness of Human Rights Protection 50 Years After the Universal Declaration”
1998 Member of the Committee of Wise Persons of the Council of Europe