1. Gare du Nord to Rogier: Tram 25 or 55 (Direction Rogier)

2. Rogier to Louise: Metro line 2 or 6 (Direction Simonis/Roi Baudouin)

1. Gare Central to Arts-Loi: Metro line 1 (Direction Stockel/Herrmann-Debroux)

2. Arts-Loi to Louise: Metro line 2 or 6 (Direction Simonis/Roi Baudouin)

1. Gare du Midi to Louise: Metro line 2 or 6 (Direction Elisabeth)

1. Gare du Midi to Louise: Metro line 2 or 6 (Direction Elisabeth)

Anthony Smith has been Chief Executive of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy since August 2014.  He was previously International Relations Director in the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and Europe Director in the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).  Anthony’s career began in 1986 as a diplomat in the FCO, where his roles focused on EU and wider European issues including trade policy, the Balkans, Common Foreign and Security Policy, Eastern Europe and Cyprus. In 1996, Anthony moved to DFID where he worked on Environment Policy, EU development policy, Southern Africa, and multilateral affairs including the UN, OECD, G7/8 and the G20. He was also Private Secretary to the Development Minister.  Anthony was born in Jamaica, studied law at Warwick University and speaks French and Spanish in addition to English.  Anthony is a member of the British Foreign Secretary’s Advisory Group on Human Rights.

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Antonella Valmorbida is the Secretary General of ALDA since 1999, President of the European Partnership for Democracy (EPD) and Member of the Advisory Board of Urban Foundation for Sustainable Development, Armenia. She has a senior experience in promoting local democracy, empowerment and participation of civil society, and good governance in: Europe, the Balkans, Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean sea. She has been Chair of the EPAN working group of CONCORD until 2016, Chair of the Committee on Democracy and Civil Society of the Conference of the INGO of the Council of Europe from 2008 to 2011, and was the coordinator of the subgroup on local government and public administration reform of the Civil Society Forum for Eastern Partnership.Thanks to her work and her engagement in networks, she accompanied and supported the development of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the principle of their “localisation”. In fact, she has worked as a consultant and trainer for major programmes of UNPD and the European Commission on local governance, democracy, local authorities and civil society empowerment.

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