Executive Committee
The CDI Executive Committee is the highest body of the organisation, formed by the president, the executive secretary and the vice-presidents.
The current president of the CDI is Pier Ferdinando Casini of Italy, while its Executive Secretary is Spanish MEP Antonio López-Istúriz, who is also Secretary-General of the EPP
The members of the Executive Committee are:
- Pier Ferdinando Casini (Italy) - President
- Antonio López-Istúriz (Spain) - Executive Secretary
- Mário David (Portugal) - Deputy Executive Secretary
- César Maia (Brazil) - Vice-President
- Lourdes Flores (Peru) - Vice-President
- Michael Eman (Aruba) - Vice-President
- Mariano Rajoy (Spain) - Vice-President
- Juan Luis Seliman (Dominican Republic) - Vice-President
- Gonzalo Arenas (Chile) - Vice-President
- Naha Mouknas (Mauritania) - Vice-President
- Abbas El Fassi (Morocco) - Vice-President
- Edcel Lagman (Philippines) - Vice-President
- Mikulas Dzurinda (Slovakia) - Vice-President
- Viktor Orbán (Hungary) - Vice-President
- Peter Hintze (Germany) - Vice-President
- Jadranka Kosor (Croatia) - Vice-President
- Andrés Pastrana (Colombia) - Vice-President
- Luís Marques Mendes (Portugal) - Vice-President
- Wilfried Martens (Belgium) - Ex-officio Vice-President (as President of the EPP)
- Jorge Ocejo Moreno (Mexico) - Ex-officio Vice-President (as President of the ODCA)
- Carlos Veiga (Cape Verde) - Ex-officio Vice-President
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