From right to left : Chairman of the ESA Council Per Tegnér, ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain, Ministerialrat Bundesministerialium für Bildung und Forschung Karl-Friedrich Nagel, German Minister for Education and Research Edelgard Bulmahn (current chair of the ESA council at ministerial level), Dutch Minister for Economic Affairs Laurens-Jan Brinkhorst (current chair of the EU Competitiveness Council) and Hans De Groene Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs.