Contributors

Jørgen Abild Andersen

Since 2010 Jørgen Abild Andersen has served as chair of OECD’s Committee on Digital Economy Policy (CDEP). In the committee he represents the Danish Ministry of Business and Growth. From 1991 to 2012 he was Director General and national telecom regulator in Denmark. He has served as chair of the EU Commission’s Radio Spectrum Policy Group (RSPG) 2003-2004 and as chair of the EU Commission’s European Regulators Group (ERG) in 2005. In 2013 he was a member of ICANN’s Accountability and Transparency Review Team 2 (ATRT 2).

Articles by Jørgen Abild Andersen

► The digital economy driving innovation, growth and social prosperity / November 2015

Diego Acosta

Dr Diego Acosta is Professor of European and Migration Law at the University of Bristol. He has over 50 publications and has participated in various cases on EU migration and EU citizenship law before the Court of Justice of the European Union. He has also been invited to advise international organisations, governments, parliaments, law firms, and NGOs worldwide.

Articles by Diego Acosta

► Bilateral agreements as a tool to facilitate movement of people after Brexit / September 2021

Emanuel Adam

Emanuel Adam is Executive Director and Chief Trade and Policy Officer at BritishAmerican Business where he is part of the Executive Team. Based out of Washington, D.C., Emanuel is responsible for the development and execution of the organisation’s wider policy advocacy and trade & investment portfolio in both the U.S and the UK.

Articles by Emanuel Adam

Sheikh Jamal al-Dhari

Sheikh Jamal al-Dhari is one the leaders of the al-Zoba tribe in Iraq. In 2014, Jamal helped to establish the nonprofit think tank Peace Ambassadors for Iraq, whose purpose is to explain the present situation in Iraq, to determine the best policies to fully eliminate ISIS/Daesh and other terrorist forces from Iraq, and to build international support for an all-inclusive Iraq.

Articles by Sheikh Jamal al-Dhari

Natalia Alonso

Natalia Alonso, an agricultural engineer by training, leads Oxfam’s EU Advocacy team in Brussels and coordinates the work across Oxfam’s offices in eight European countries. Her previous posts in Brussels were at Plan International, where she was head of the EU office, and at Amnesty International's EU office as Deputy Director. http://www.oxfam.org/en/eu

Articles by Natalia Alonso

Mercedes Alonso

Mercedes Alonso is Executive Vice President, Renewable Polymers and Chemicals business unit at Neste Corporation.
M.Sc. (Chem). Member of the Executive Committee at Neste since joining the company in September 2019. Previously served as Marketing Director Advanced Polymer Solutions Europe in LyondellBasell
(2019), Managing Director Eng. Composites Europe 2016–2019, and Global Director Corporate Marketing in A.Schulman Inc. 2013–2016, as well as Business Excellence Leader, Advanced
Materials (2010-2013), and several commercial roles in the Specialty Chemicals and Elastomer business units at Dow Chemical (Europe) 1991–2013. Member of the Board of the European Chemical
Industry Council (Cefic) since 2020.

Articles by Mercedes Alonso

► Defossilizing the chemicals and polymers industry: Europe’s chance to shine / February 2022

Guillaume Amigues

Guillaume Amigues is a Senior Manager at the World Economic Forum, where he is in charge of government cooperation. He has previously worked at the French Ministry of Higher Education and at the German parliament as an advisor on European foreign policy. He is also general secretary of the think-tank ProEuropa and a member of Sandbox.

Articles by Guillaume Amigues

► The Syria stalemate and the international community / January 2014

László Andor

László Andor is Secretary General of FEPS (Foundation for European Progressive Studies, Brussels). He served as EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion from 2010-2014. Between 2005 and 2010, he was a member of the board of directors at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, representing Hungary, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic and Croatia. Beforehand he taught political science and economic policy at at Corvinus University (Budapest), and advised the Prime Minister's Office. In 2015 he joined RAND Europe's Council of Advisors as well as the Board of Trustees of Friends of Europe. He is Senior Fellow at Hertie School (Berlin) and Visiting Professor at ULB (Brussels).

Articles by László Andor

Veronica Anghel

Veronica Anghel, PhD, is an assistant professor at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, European University Institute. Her research focuses on the challenges to European integration and enlargement. She co-leads the 'EU Enlargement Hub', a cooperative research and capacity-building initiative between the EUI, the CEU Democracy Institute, and the Kyiv School of Economics. The project aims to research the lessons learned from the EU's enlargement phases to transfer into policies recommendations for Ukraine and beyond. Previously, Dr. Anghel held positions at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Stanford University, the Institute for Human Sciences Vienna and others.

Articles by Veronica Anghel

Crin Antonescu

Crin Antonescu was elected President of the Romanian Senate on 3rd July 2012. He is the candidate of the ruling Social Liberal Union (Liberal and Socialist parties) coalition for the 2014 Presidential elections. If elected he will be the first post-Ceausescu President never to have been a member of the Communist Party. Between July-August 2012 he served as Acting President of Romania during the suspension of President Băsescu.

Articles by Crin Antonescu

► Transatlantic trade could save a generation / November 2013

James Appleyard

James Appleyard is a Senior Consultant within Verisk Maplecroft’s Consulting team. He works directly with many of the company's clients, producing political, security and commercial risk analyses for companies in the oil and gas, consumer goods, mining, ICT/telecoms, and financial services sectors operating in Europe, North America and Australasia.

Articles by James Appleyard

Solon Ardittis

Solon Ardittis is director of Eurasylum and a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). He is also co-editor of Migration Policy Practice, a bimonthly journal published jointly with the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

Articles by Solon Ardittis

Kenneth Armstrong

Kenneth Armstrong is Professor of European law at the University of Cambridge and author of Brexit Time – Leaving the EU: Why, How and When? published by Cambridge University Press. He tweets @profkaarmstrong and writes an occasional blog at brexittime.com.

Articles by Kenneth Armstrong

Ed Arnold

Ed Arnold is a Senior Research Fellow for European Security within the International Security department at RUSI.

His experience covers defence, intelligence, counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency, within the public and private sector. His primary research focus is on the transformation of European security following Russia’s war on Ukraine. Specifically, he covers the evolving Euro-Atlantic security architecture, the security of northern Europe, and the UK contribution to European security through NATO, the Joint Expeditionary Force, and other fora. Ed has a particular interest in UK National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence and Security Reviews.

Ed joined RUSI from the private sector where he was a strategy Director within the defence and security sector. His clients included multiple government departments and multi-national and SME private companies. Prior to consultancy, Ed was an infantry Officer within the British Army. His military career was primarily spent overseas, including deployments to Afghanistan and East Africa and a posting at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe during the 2014 Ukraine crisis.

Articles by Ed Arnold

► What can the new UK government’s proposed UK–EU Security Pact achieve? / July 2024

Ignacio Arroniz Verasco

Ignacio works as Senior Policy Advisor on EU Climate Foreign Policy within the Climate Diplomacy and Geopolitics team. He works towards shaping how the EU and its member states effectively leverage their climate action internationally to accelerate the global climate transition. This involves working across different venues and in cooperation with a broad range of communities, devising common strategies and engaging with relevant decision-makers. His area of work spans from traditional EU climate diplomacy to new forms of partnerships and cooperation that mainstream climate goals into broader foreign policy.

Articles by Ignacio Arroniz Verasco

► EU AT UNGA: A defining test for EU climate leadership on the global stage / September 2024

Sue Arundale

Born in the UK, Sue also holds Belgian citizenship and has lived in Belgium for 17 years. She has worked in EU affairs for more than 25 years, 15 of these being for international member organisations. Her interest in improving services to members inspired her to undertake a Master’s Degree in Leading Innovation and Change, for which her thesis was about adding value in member organisations. She also has a Postgraduate Certificate in EU Law. Prior to her role at BritCham, Sue worked in the field of construction, as a lobbyist for the industry. As Director of Technical and Environmental Affairs at the European Construction Industry Federation (FIEC) and President of the European Council for Construction Research, Development and Innovation (ECCREDI), she has worked with both the European Commission and the European Parliament on relevant policy developments affecting contractors.

Articles by Sue Arundale

► Has the voice of British business been muted following the UK’s departure from the EU? / March 2022

Thomas Aubrey

Thomas Aubrey is the founder of Credit Capital Advisory. He has written widely on political, financial and economic issues including All Roads Lead to Serfdom: Confronting liberalism’s fatal flaw (2022), Profiting from Monetary Policy (2012) and co-authored Prediction Markets: The end of the regulatory state? (2007) with Professor Frank Vibert. He has also acted as a senior policy advisor for a number of British, European and Asian public bodies on areas including capital markets, corporate governance, housing and industrial strategy.

Articles by Thomas Aubrey

Fatima Ayub

Fatima Ayub is a policy analyst in the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. She is the editor of "What does the Gulf think?", a new series of publications from ECFR's MENA programme. From 2009 to 2012 Fatima was an advocate at the Open Society Foundations in London and Brussels, where her work and analysis focused on rights protection and political transformation in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. Previously, she worked in Afghanistan between 2006 and 2009 for the International Center for Transitional Justice, examining the legacy of impunity in fragile states, security sector fragmentation and electoral reform. She was a researcher on international humanitarian law at Amnesty International in London in 2006, and prior to that worked for Human Rights Watch's Asia advocacy program in Washington DC from 2004-2005.

Articles by Fatima Ayub

Ziv Baida

Dr. Ziv Baida is a data & technology enthusiast, a challenger of status quo in the business environment and a strong believer in the power of diverse teams, in location-independent work, and in embracing a changing business environment. His focus is Government and the Global Trade ecosystem, currently in his role at Dun & Bradstreet in the BeNeLux region, and previously within IBM, working globally. He runs a blog called Insights Unboxed about a broad variety of aspects of doing business in the data, technology and digital space, and he is the author of numerous publications in journals, books and conferences.

Articles by Ziv Baida

David Bailey

David Bailey is Professor of Business Economics at the Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK and an ESRC ‘UK in a Changing Europe Senior Fellow’. He has written extensively on industrial and regional policy, especially in relation to manufacturing and the auto industry. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Regional Studies and Chair of the RSA Europe Think-Tank and policy forum. His latest co-edited book ‘Industry 4.0 & Regional Transformations’ (with Lisa De Propris) has just been published in the RSA book series, and ‘Carmageddon? Brexit & Beyond for UK Auto’ was published earlier this year by Bite-Sized Books. David is a regular media commenter and newspaper columnist. Tweet him @dgbailey

Articles by David Bailey

Tim Bale

Tim is Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London, where his research focuses on political parties in Britain and in Europe. He writes for various UK and overseas newspapers, as well as popping up on TV and radio to talk about politics and current affairs. You can follow him on twitter @ProfTimBale.

Articles by Tim Bale

Rosa Balfour

Rosa Balfour is director of Carnegie Europe. Her fields of expertise include European politics, institutions, and foreign and security policy. Her current research focuses on the relationship between domestic politics and Europe’s global role.

She has researched and published widely for academia, think tanks, and the international press on issues relating to European politics and international relations, especially on the Mediterranean region, Eastern Europe and the Balkans, EU enlargement, international support for civil society, and human rights and democracy. She is also a member of the steering committee of Women in International Security Brussels (WIIS-Brussels) and an associate fellow at LSE IDEAS. In 2018 and 2019, she was awarded a fellowship on the Europe’s Futures programme at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. Since 2021, she is also an honorary patron of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES). Prior to joining Carnegie Europe, Rosa Balfour was a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. She was also director of the Europe in the World programme at the European Policy Centre in Brussels and has worked as a researcher in Rome and London.

Articles by Rosa Balfour

Tony Barber

Tony Barber is Europe Editor and Associate Editor at the Financial Times. He is a columnist and specialist writer on European political, economic and business news and reviewer of books on modern European history. From 2007-2010 he was Brussels bureau chief of the FT, 2002-2000 the Rome bureau chief and 1998-2002 the Frankfurt bureau chief.

Articles by Tony Barber

► Breaking up is easy to do / October 2015

Tyson Barker

Tyson Barker is a Senior Research Fellow at the Brandenburgisches Institut für Gesellschaft und Sicherheit (BIGS), a German security think tank affiliated with the University of Potsdam. In 2015-16, he served as the rapporteur for the Atlantic Council Task Force on the Transatlantic Digital Economy. In 2014-5, he served as Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs at the US State Department in Washington, D.C. In this role, he managed planning and strategy, speech writing and Congressional relations for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs (EUR). Prior to joining State, he worked for 6 years at the Bertelsmann Foundation, most recently as the Director for Trans-Atlantic Relations.

Articles by Tyson Barker

► Europe's ambivalence on the cloud / January 2017

Catherine Barnard

Catherine Barnard is Professor of EU law and Employment Law and fellow of Trinity College. She is the author of EU Employment Law (Oxford, OUP, 2012, 5th ed.), The Substantive Law of the EU: The Four Freedoms, (Oxford, OUP, 2019, 6th ed), and (with Peers ed), European Union Law (Oxford, OUP, 2017, 2nd ed) . She is a member of the European Commission funded European Labour Law Network (ELLN). She is also a Deputy Director of the UK in a Changing Europe (http://ukandeu.ac.uk/) project. This is an authoritative, non-partisan think tank which does research and provides information about all aspects of Brexit. Part of its remit is to make that information accessible to the general public. So it does a lot of public engagement, especially with the media. She has appeared on the main media channels - BBC, ITV and Sky - as well as some of the more specialist programmes such as Law in Action, Woman's Hour, Question Time and the Briefing Room. She has also written for the Guardian and the Telegraph. She has given evidence to numerous select committees on the legal issues connected with Brexit, immigration and the European Union (Withdrawal) Act. She has her own podcast, 2903cb, and she blogs on Brexit, mainly for the http://ukandeu.ac.uk/.

Articles by Catherine Barnard

Matthias Bauer

Matthias Bauer is Senior Economist at the European Center for International Political Economy (ECIPE). Prior to his tenure at ECIPE, he worked at Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Bundesbank Programme on the Foundations of Global Financial Markets. He began his career as a business development consultant and worked for UBS, DekaBank and Mercedes-Benz China. He writes about international economics and consults cooperative farming projects in Ghana.

Articles by Matthias Bauer

Dimitar Bechev

Dimitar Bechev is the head of ECFR's Sofia office and a senior policy fellow in ECFR's Wider Europe programme. His special interests are the Western Balkans and the rise of Turkey. Before joining ECFR he completed his doctorate at Oxford University and then worked at a university in Japan.

Articles by Dimitar Bechev

► Serbia, Kosovo and the benefits of normalisation / April 2013

Anna Isabel Becker

Anna Isabel Becker is a public affairs consultant at Bernstein Group office in Brussels. In her free time, she engages as a steering committee member at the Brussels based NGO “The Brussels Binder” that aims to increase gender balance in policy debates via an online go-to-resource and platform. Anna Isabel tweets at @annadesperada.

Articles by Anna Isabel Becker

Iain Begg

Iain Begg is Professor at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science. His main research work is on the political economy of European economic integration, and his recent and current research includes a series of analytic studies for the European Parliament’s Budg Committee on the EU’s finances.

Articles by Iain Begg

Jacopo Bellasio

Jacopo Bellasio is an analyst at RAND Europe where he focuses on defence and security issues. He currently manages a three-year pan-European counter-radicalisation research effort for the European Commission and a cyber security capacity development project for the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Articles by Jacopo Bellasio

Michele Bellini

Michele Bellini is Executive Officer at Sciences Po's Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) and Director of the Budapest European Agora. Michele graduated with summa cum laude from the Master in International Public Management at Sciences Po Paris, focussing on European studies and diplomacy. He holds two undergraduate degrees in international business: in Italy from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, and in the USA from Northeastern University of Boston.

Articles by Michele Bellini

► In praise of patience / March 2020

Ghazi Ben Ahmed

Ghazi Ben Ahmed is the Founder of the Mediterranean Development Initiative (MDI), a Tunisia based independent Think Tank born in 2013. He is now running the Brussels Office of MDI. Its mission is to undertake policy-oriented research and to produce analyses and proposals targeting regional decision-makers and a wider audience, and to contribute to the debate on the Euro/Med/Africa and other regional challenges. Ghazi Ben Ahmed is advising the EU and the Tunisian government on trade issues in the context of the ongoing negotiations between the EU and Tunisia for a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement. He also set up the first Office of the US German Marshall Fund in Tunisia, and led the US Initiative “MENA Partnership for Democracy and Development”. He is also the founder and was the Secretary General of the Club de Tunis, a Tunisian based foundation aiming to help policymakers and deputies of the Tunisian National Constitutive Assembly learn from Eastern and Central European countries experience and bridge their political divide. He was also the national coordinator for the US led Initiative LEND – Leaders Engaged in New Democracies.

Previously he was the Lead Trade Expert in the African Development Bank (AfDB) in charge of the Bank response to the financial crisis in coordination with the G20, the WTO and the World Bank. He set up and managed the $1 billion Trade Finance Initiative of the Bank. Before joining the AfDB, he was employed at the UNCTAD, the United Nation agency for trade and development, in the Africa and LDC Division, as Senior Advisor, providing support to African trade negotiators in multilateral trade negotiations and regional trading arrangements. He provided economic studies and reports; elaborated (or evaluated) the Diagnostic Trade Integration Studies and assisted the countries in mainstreaming trade into the national development plans under the Integrated Framework.

He has also worked for several years in the European Commission in Brussels, in several Directorates-Generals: Trade, EuropeAid and External Relations, responsible for trade issues, EU trade and development policy, textile negotiations, macroeconomic analysis, structural adjustment and institutional building in the Mediterranean countries. He was also responsible for the task force on market access and non tariff barriers and the High Level Dialogue between the EU and China.

Articles by Ghazi Ben Ahmed

Chiara Benassi

Chiara Benassi is Senior Lecturer in HRM at King’s Business School. Chiara’s research is in the areas of comparative employment relations and comparative political economy. Her work has been published in international academic journals such as the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Socio-Economic Review and Industrial and Labor Relations Review. Her research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Hans Boeckler Foundation, and she currently is Co-PI of the Leverhulme Trust research project “The political economy of growth models in the age of global stagnation”.

Articles by Chiara Benassi

► Post-Brexit Labour Markets: Towards a high Wages, high Skills, high Productivity Equilibrium? / July 2022

Roberta Benedetti del Rio

Roberta Benedetti del Rio is a co-founder of Finance Matters, a London-based organization that helps finance professionals create greater positive impact with their financial skills and capital, supporting the finance industry as a driver of social change. Roberta works as an associate at Generation Investment Management, in the Global Credit Fund.

Articles by Roberta Benedetti del Rio

► Today's young finance professionals and the shift to a sustainable economy / June 2014

Richard Bentall

Richard Bentall is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Sheffield and has previously held chairs at Liverpool University, Manchester University and Bangor University. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and a Fellow of the British Academy.

He graduated with a BSc and then a PhD in experimental psychology at the University College of North Wales (now Bangor University) and then completed his clinical training at Liverpool University. He also holds an MA in philosophy applied to health care awarded by University College Swansea (now Swansea University). His research interests have mainly focused on psychosis.

He has studied the cognitive and emotional mechanisms involved in psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations, paranoid delusions and manic states, using methods ranging from psychological experiments, and experience sampling to functional magnetic resonance imaging. These studies have also examined why social risk factors (for example childhood adversities such as poverty, abuse, and bullying) provoke the cognitive and emotional changes that lead to these symptoms. In collaboration with colleagues at Manchester and elsewhere he has also conducted large scale randomized controlled trials of psychological interventions for people diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and prodromal psychosis. During 2020-22, he led a project measuring the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the UK population.

He has published approximately 350 peer-review papers and a number of books, including Madness explained: Psychosis and human nature (Penguin, 2003) and Doctoring the mind: Why psychiatric treatments fail (Penguin, 2009). He is currently working on a book on extreme beliefs, including delusions, provisionally titled Delusions, democracy and the madness of crowds.

Articles by Richard Bentall

► When will Britain change its mind about Brexit? / September 2024

Meghan Benton

Meghan Benton is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, DC; and a Nonresident Fellow with MPI Europe. Her research focuses on free movement and immigrant integration (focusing on social innovation and communities). She was previously a Senior Researcher at Nesta, the United Kingdom’s innovation body, where she led projects on digital government and the future of local public services. She holds a PhD in political science (specialising in citizenship policy) from University College London.

Articles by Meghan Benton

► No man left behind? Why the UK needs to remember its “Brexpats” / April 2017

Sophia Besch

Sophia Besch is a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform Berlin office. She works on European defence issues, with a focus on EU Common Defence and Security Policy, European defence industry co-operation, NATO and German defence policy.

Articles by Sophia Besch

Matt Bevington

Matt Bevington is a Senior Associate at Global Counsel, where he provides political and policy advice to investors. He has experience working across a wide range of policy fields, including the EU institutions and EU policy. He previously worked at the UK in a Changing Europe think tank and the Economist Intelligence Unit.

Articles by Matt Bevington

Markus Beyrer

Markus J. Beyrer has been Director General of BUSINESSEUROPE since late 2012. Prior to this he held the positions of CEO of the Austrian Industry Holding ÖIAG, Director General of the Federation of Austrian Industries (IV) and Director for Economic Affairs of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber. Before this Mr Beyrer served as Chief Economic Advisor to the Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria, Dr. Wolfgang Schüssel.

Articles by Markus Beyrer

Alice Billon-Galland

Alice Billon-Galland joined Chatham House in October 2019 as Research Associate in the Europe Programme, working mainly on issues related to European security and defence. Prior to that, she led the European defence programme at the European Leadership Network (ELN) in London. Alice’s research focuses on European defence cooperation, French foreign and defence policy, transatlantic burden-sharing, and developments in the EU and NATO.

Articles by Alice Billon-Galland

► E3 cooperation beyond Brexit: challenging but necessary / September 2020

Federiga Bindi

Senior Fellow & Director, Foreign Policy Initiative, Institute for Women’s Policy Research &Jean Monnet Chair, University of Roma Tor Vergata.

Articles by Federiga Bindi

Sven Biscop

Prof. Dr. Sven Biscop, an Honorary Fellow of the European Security and Defence College, is the director of the Europe in the World programme at the Egmont – Royal Institute for International Relations and lectures at Ghent University. His latest book is Grand Strategy in 10 Words - A Guide to Great Power Politics in the 21st Century.

Articles by Sven Biscop

Graham Bishop

Graham Bishop is an Independent Consultant appraising the financial, budgetary, economic and political ramifications of EU integration. As well as being on the European Commission’s Maas Committee in 1994/5, its Financial Services Strategy Group in 1998/9 and its Giovannini Group, he is currently a member of the Commission’s Expert Group on debt redemption fund and eurobills.

Articles by Graham Bishop

James Black

James Black is assistant director of the Defence and Security research group at RAND Europe, where he leads the Defence Strategy, Policy, and Capability research portfolio. He also serves as European lead for the RAND Space Enterprise Initiative, a global hub for RAND's space-related research, and advises the Centre for Defence Economics and Acquisition. He was recently a non-resident NATO 2030 fellow.

Articles by James Black

Andrew Blick

Andrew Blick is Professor of Politics and Contemporary History and Head of Department of Political Economy, King’s College London. He is the author of numerous books on constitutional matters, including, most recently, with Peter Hennessy, The Bonfire of the Decencies: Repairing and Restoring the British Constitution. He is a Senior Adviser to the Constitution Society, which commissioned this work. See: for more on this work, go to: https://consoc.org.uk/publications/red-wall-polling-2023/

Articles by Andrew Blick

► Challenging the Labour Party's EU strategy / April 2023

Steven Blockmans

Steven Blockmans is a Senior Research Fellow at CEPS.

Articles by Steven Blockmans

Christian Bluth

Christian Bluth joined the Bertelsmann Stiftung in 2016, where he works as a trade expert in the Global Economic Dynamics team. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and a Master’s from Sciences Po.

Articles by Christian Bluth

Arjen Boin

Arjen Boin is Professor of Public Institutions and Governance at the Institute of Political Science, Leiden University. His particular interest is in the areas of crisis and disaster management. He is also managing partner of Crisisplan BV, a consultancy dedicated to crisis management.

Articles by Arjen Boin

Gábor Bojár

Gábor Bojár is one of the few entrepreneurs of Central-Eastern Europe to succeed in global business already in the years of state-socialism. With a degree in physics he founded his own software development firm in 1982. Graphisoft today is a leading BIM software vendor globally with its ArchiCAD®, used by hundreds of thousands of architects all over the world. In 1996, Gábor Bojár founded a science park by re-cultivating a run down industrial site on the bank of the river Danube, accommodating the research units of corporations including Graphisoft, Microsoft, SAP, Servier and others. In 2007 he established a highly competitive school of information technology for an international student body.

Articles by Gábor Bojár

Patrick Bolton

Patrick Bolton is the Professor of Finance and Economics at the Imperial College London. Previously, he was the David Zalaznick Professor of Business at the Columbia Business School.

He began his career as an assistant professor at the University of California at Berkeley and then moved to Harvard University, joining their economics department from 1987-1989. He was Chargé de Recherche at the C.N.R.S. Laboratoire d’ Econométrie de L’ Ecole Polytechnique from 1989-1991, Cassel Professor of Money and Banking at the London School of Economics from 1991-1994, Chargé de cours associé at the Institut d'Etudes Europénnes de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles from 1994-1998, and John H. Scully ’66 Professor of Finance and Economics at Princeton University from 1998-2005.

His research and areas of interest are in contract theory and contracting issues in corporate finance and industrial organization. A central focus of his work is on the allocation of control and decision rights to contracting parties when long-term contracts are incomplete. This issue is relevant in many different contracting areas including: the firm’s choice of optimal debt structure, corporate governance and the firm’s optimal ownership structure, vertical integration, and constitution design. His work in industrial organization focuses on antitrust economics and the potential anticompetitive effects of various contracting practices. He recently published his first book, Contract Theory, with Mathias Dewatripont and has co-edited a second book with Howard Rosenthal, Credit Markets for the Poor.

Articles by Patrick Bolton

► The economic case for north-south climate finance at scale / June 2024

Martyn Bond

Martyn Bond was trained in the BBC as a radio and TV producer before moving to academia to teach European studies, and later to a career as a European civil servant, first in the Council of Ministers and later in the European Parliament. In the early 1980s he was Berlin correspondent for the BBC, and until recently was Director of a UK think tank. His latest publication is Hitler’s Cosmopolitan Bastard: Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi and his Vision of Europe.

Articles by Martyn Bond

► Europe's future can learn from Europe's past / May 2021

Ian Bond

Ian Bond is the Deputy Director at the independent think-tank, the Centre for European Reform, and a former British diplomat who served in Washington. He joined the Centre for European Reform as director of foreign policy in April 2013. Prior to that, he was a member of the British diplomatic service for 28 years. His most recent appointment was as political counsellor and joint head of the foreign and security policy group in the British Embassy, Washington (2007-12), where he focused on US foreign policy towards Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia and Africa. He was British Ambassador to Latvia from 2005-07, receiving a CVO (Commander of the Royal Victorian Order) for his work on the Queen’s state visit in 2006.

Articles by Ian Bond

Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl

Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl is Director-General of DIGITALEUROPE, the leading digital technology industry association representing over 35,000 digital companies in Europe. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Gaia-X, of the European Commission’s Industrial Forum.

Articles by Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl

► A new digital era for the transatlantic relationship is possible / February 2022

Ricardo Borges de Castro

Ricardo Borges de Castro is Associate Director and Head of Europe in the World Programme at the European Policy Centre, an independent, not-for-profit, Brussels-based think tank dedicated to fostering European integration through analysis and debate. Previously he served as Adviser for Foreign Affairs and Adviser on Strategic Foresight to the European Political Strategy Centre, the European Commission’s in-house think tank, reporting directly to President Jean-Claude Juncker. Ricardo led the EPSC’s work on strategic foresight, spearheading efforts to mainstream anticipation and foresight across commission services and beyond. Before joining the EPSC, Ricardo served as Member of Cabinet and Personal Assistant to José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, as well as spokesperson for ‘Europe and the World’ at the Commission’s Spokespersons’ Planning and Coordination Unit. In Portugal, Ricardo served in the Prime Minister’s Office as political adviser to the Prime Minister after spending four years in the Portuguese Parliament as policy advisor for foreign affairs, national defence and East Timor.

Articles by Ricardo Borges de Castro

Christian Borggreen

Christian Borggreen is Director of International Policy in the Brussels office of the Computer & Communications Industry Association. He leads CCIA’s work on digital trade, privacy and Internet governance and engagement with international institutions.

Articles by Christian Borggreen

► An end to EU data transfers? / June 2016

Camilla Born

Camilla Born is a Policy Advisor in E3G’s Climate Diplomacy team based at our London office. E3G’s Climate Diplomacy programme focuses on how to construct high leverage political interventions which can shape transformational international outcomes. Camilla’s particular specialism centres on improving climate risk management in the face of escalating climate impacts and accelerating low carbon transition.

Articles by Camilla Born

► What to expect from COP 22 / November 2016

Nicolas Botton

Nicolas Botton is a Research Assistant at ECIPE, who has previously worked at the United Nations and is a Master's graduate from King's College London. His main areas of focus include the digital economy, EU trade agreements, regulation, and macro-economics.

Articles by Nicolas Botton

► The implications of blockchain for trade and Brexit / January 2018

Catherine Boyer

Catherine Boyer is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) – a sustainability think tank based in Brussels and London.

Articles by Catherine Boyer

► A wheelbarrow of soil / July 2017

Gijs Jan Brandsma

Gijs Jan Brandsma is Assistant Professor in European Politics and Administration at Utrecht University, and Visiting Professor at the University of Konstanz. His research includes decision-making, accountability and transparency in the European Union. His most recent book publication is "Controlling the EU Executive? The politics of delegation in the European Union" (with Jens Blom-Hansen), published with Oxford University Press. Gijs Jan Brandsma is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University.

Articles by Gijs Jan Brandsma

► Trilogue reform: displaced by Covid? / October 2020

Erik Brattberg

Erik Brattberg is the Director of the Europe Program and a Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC.

Articles by Erik Brattberg

Holger Breinlich

Holger Breinlich is a Professor of International Economics at the University of Nottingham. He is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) and a Research Investigator for The UK in a Changing Europe. His research interests are in the fields of international trade, economic geography and applied econometrics.

Articles by Holger Breinlich

► The Brexit vote, inflation and UK living standards / November 2017

Jeffries Briginshaw

Jeffries Briginshaw was appointed CEO of the British-American Business Council (BABC) in March 2015. The BABC is the largest transatlantic business network, with 22 chapters, and over 2,000 member companies based in major business centers throughout North America and the United Kingdom. Alongside his role at the BABC, from 2015 – 2017, Jeffries held the position of CEO at BritishAmerican Business.

Articles by Jeffries Briginshaw

► Europe and Britain: what they are saying in D.C. / June 2014

Alex Britten

Alex Britten is Project and Operations Manager at Common Vision UK, and runs Brexit Watch. She previously worked in international development, focusing on youth engagement and campaigning.

Articles by Alex Britten

► Reducing immigration is the least important Brexit priority for under 35s / January 2017

Elda Brogi

Elda Brogi is the Scientific Coordinator of the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, based at the European University Institute. She is a member of the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO), where she coordinates policy analysis and research.

Elda has extensive experience in media policy, legislation, and regulation. She has been actively involved with the Council of Europe, currently serving on the Committee of Experts on Increasing Resilience of the Media (MSI-RES). She has also been a member of several expert committees, including the Committee on Media Environment and Reform (MSI-REF), Media Pluralism and Transparency (MSI-MED), and Journalism Protection and Safety (MSI-JO). Furthermore, she contributed to the UNESCO "World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development" Report and the Steering Committee of the Medialaws review. In 2022, she joined the Research Policy Network on Media Plurality of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Her academic interests include Constitutional Law, European Law, Media Law, and Internet Law.

Articles by Elda Brogi

► What are the main threats to media pluralism in Europe? / October 2024

Thom Brooks

Thom Brooks is Head of Durham Law School and Professor of Law and Government at Durham University. His new book is Becoming British: UK Citizenship Examined (Biteback 2016) @thom_brooks

Articles by Thom Brooks

► The meaningless mantra of "Brexit means Brexit" / October 2016

Michaela Bruckmayer

Michaela Bruckmayer is an analyst at RAND Europe in the area of home affairs and social policy. She has a PhD in politics from the University of Sheffield. Previously, Bruckmayer worked as an evidence adviser for Macmillan Cancer Support and as a research consultant for the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.

Articles by Michaela Bruckmayer

► Equal pay for equal work: how binding pay transparency measures may help / May 2020

Martin Brudermüller

Martin Brudermüller is Chair of the Competitiveness and Innovation Working Group of the European Roundtable of Industrialists. He is also Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE, and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of BASF SE. He is responsible for the divisions Legal, Taxes, Insurance & Intellectual Property, Corporate Development, Corporate Communications & Government Relations, Senior Executive Human Resources, Investor Relations, Compliance, Corporate Technology & Operational Excellence and Innovation Management.

Articles by Martin Brudermüller

► Supporting innovation and technology should be top priority of new European Commission / June 2019

Kinga Brudzinska

Kinga Brudzinska works as Research Associate at the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM) in Vienna. Her main research interests lie in the fields of democracy support, EU foreign and defence policy and EU institutional architecture. She works chiefly on Visegrad countries, and Spanish speaking world. Prior to joining IDM, she worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland (Permanent Secretariat of Community of Democracies; Permanent Representation of Poland to the OECD), think tanks such as Polish Institute of International Affairs and GLOBSEC in Slovakia. Kinga holds Ph.D. in Arts of Political Science, Faculty of Political Science and Journalism from the University of Warsaw.

Articles by Kinga Brudzinska

► Europe (still) hesitant to provide democracy aid / February 2023

David Buchan

After a long journalism career with the Economist and Fiinancial Times, including postings in Brussels, Paris, Washington and also serving at various times as energy, defence and diplomatic editor based in London, David Buchan has been since 2007 a senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies specialising in EU energy and climate policy. He has written six books - three on the EU, one on energy and two on both topics combined.

Articles by David Buchan

► Countries doing their own thing - step forward for the UN, backwards for the EU / December 2015

Colin Budd

Sir Colin Budd is a former British Ambassador to the Netherlands and Deputy Under-Secretary of State at the FCO (European Union and Economic Director). He was Chef de Cabinet to the Vice President of the European Commission, Sir Leon Brittan and was also Deputy Secretary at the Cabinet Office (Chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee, and Head of the Overseas and Defence Secretariat).

Articles by Colin Budd

► The UK and Horizon Europe: Better late… but time and opportunities wasted / October 2023

Goran Buldioski

Goran Buldioski is the programme director of the Open Society Think Tank Fund and co-director of the Open Society Initiative for Europe. He focuses on democratic transition in Eastern Europe, development of policy research on social and political affairs, and the role of civil society. Before joining the Open Society Foundations, Buldioski worked for the Council of Europe, the Macedonian Center for International Cooperation, and the National Youth Council of Macedonia.

Articles by Goran Buldioski

► Beyond the migration route in the Western Balkans / November 2015

Paola Buonadonna

Italian-born Paola Buonadonna has lived in the UK since 1989. In the mid-90s she was Brussels correspondent for The European Newspaper and subsequently a political reporter on BBC programmes including The E-Files, On The Record, and the Politics Show. More recently she was head of press for the European Parliament Office in the UK and since then has worked as a media consultant for a variety of organizations and campaigns including British Influence and the Centre for European Reform. Paola joined The Wake Up Foundation in September 2015.

Articles by Paola Buonadonna

► Four reasons why the UK referendum is a lost opportunity for real debate on Europe / January 2016

Fran Burwell

Fran Burwell is a Distinguished Fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington and a senior director at McLarty Associates.

Articles by Fran Burwell

► Time for a European Data & Technology Agency / November 2022

Milda Butkute

Milda Butkute is a Junior Consultant for Policy and Research Team at Ecorys Brussels. She specialises in migration, family and children policies, social inclusion and employment. Previously she worked on the European Platform for Investing in Children and the High Quality Job Creation projects at RAND Europe.

Articles by Milda Butkute

► Making education a reality for all children in Europe / October 2018

Israel Butler

Dr. Israel Butler is advocacy consultant to the European Liberties Platform, a network of European human rights watchdog non–governmental organisations. From 2012-2015 he was senior policy analyst on fundamental rights, justice and home affairs at the Open Society European Policy Institute in Brussels. Prior to this, he worked for three years at the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights in Vienna as a legal researcher and speechwriter. He holds a doctorate in International Law and Human Rights and began his career in academia as a lecturer at Lancaster University covering EU Law and Human Rights Law.

Articles by Israel Butler

► Corruption and the EU / February 2014

Fredrik Bynander

Fredrik Bynander is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Centre for Societal Security at the Swedish Defence University in Stockholm. His recent research includes crisis management studies, security studies and leadership succession. Fredrik is an elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences and the Swedish Society for International Affairs.

Articles by Fredrik Bynander

► Finland and Sweden able to contribute to the civil preparedness capabilities of NATO and the EU / August 2022

Lydie Cabane

Lydie Cabane is a research officer at the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, London School of Economics. She works on disaster and crisis management with a particular focus on the European Union. Broader interests includes multi-level governance, public policy and administration, as well as state reforms. She holds a PhD in sociology from Sciences Po Paris (on disaster management).

Articles by Lydie Cabane

Nigel Cameron

Nigel Cameron, former president of the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies in Washington, DC, and founding tech editor of the London-based website UnHerd.com, writes on technology, policy and values and lives in Brussels. His most recent book was Will Robots Take Your Job? A Plea for Consensus

Articles by Nigel Cameron

► Europe sets out to build its own brand of AI / February 2020

Neil Campbell

Neil Campbell is acting director of the Open Society European Policy Institute. He is responsible for developing the positions and profile of the Open Society Foundations on cross-cutting EU policy issues. He undertakes analysis and advocacy in the thematic areas of governance and accountability and in other areas relevant to the European Union and the Open Society Foundations. He joined the Foundations in April 2010. Before that he was EU advocacy manager and senior research analyst (2003–2010) at the International Crisis Group, dealing with EU policies on conflict prevention and crisis management, and managing Crisis Group’s targeted advocacy in Brussels.

Articles by Neil Campbell

► Corruption and the EU / February 2014

Giovanni Campi

Giovanni Campi is Policy Director in the Brussels office of global law firm K&L Gates and the Europe-Director of the Trans-Atlantic Business Council.. Prior to joining K&L Gates, Mr. Campi served as Advocacy Director at AFME (Association for Financial Markets in Europe), an association that advocates for global capital markets participants active in European markets, as well as senior policy advisor at EUROCHAMBRES, the trade body representing the interests of European Chambers of Commerce and an Economist at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt.

Articles by Giovanni Campi

► New Year, new priorities for trans-Atlantic relations and trade / January 2022

Carlos Campillos

Carlos Campillos Martinez is a Researcher at E3G Brussels, working across all Energy Union areas. His work mainly focuses on how EU public finances and investment policy can become a better instrument for financing the low-carbon transition. Prior to joining E3G, Carlos has worked in international relations and communications in the Cabinet of Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy, Miguel Arias Cañete, and the Embassy of Canada in Spain.

Articles by Carlos Campillos

► Why EU finances matter for the low-carbon transition / August 2017

Carlo Alberto Carnevale Maffé

Carlo Alberto Carnevale Maffé is Professor of Strategic and Entrepreneurial Management at SDA Bocconi. He teaches Strategic Management within the Department of Management as well as Management Consulting for the Master in Business Administration and the Master in Fashion, Experience and Design. Maffé is also a lecturer for the Media MBA at Steinbeis University in Berlin and the Master in Intelligence at the University of Malta. He has also lectured at the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University, Stern School of Business in New York University, and at the Scuola Superiore S. Anna in Pisa, Italy. He is a member of the “E-business Policies” Steering Committee at the European Commission DG Enterprise - ICT industries and services.

Articles by Carlo Alberto Carnevale Maffé

► How to invest in Next Generation Networks / January 2013

David Caro

David Caro has been the President of the European Small Business Alliance (ESBA) since June 2012. His Birmingham based business Qualplast Ltd, founded in 1977, currently employs 25 people and is the UK's premier supplier of flock finishes to the automotive industry.

Articles by David Caro

► The European Parliament’s digital push / March 2014

Andrew Caruana Galizia

Andrew Caruana Galizia is one of Daphne Caruana Galizia’s three sons, the Maltese journalist assassinated in a targeted car bomb attack on 16 October 2017 a few metres from her home in Bidnija, Malta. He and his family have since been advocating for an independent and effective investigation into the commissioners of his mother’s assassination, into whether her death could have been prevented, and into the evidence of high-level corruption she had uncovered. He had earlier served as a Maltese diplomat in Valletta, Berlin and New Delhi.

Articles by Andrew Caruana Galizia

Tom Carver

Tom Carver is a former BBC Africa correspondent and is currently running a programme to strengthen African policy expertise. tomcarver@gmail.com

Articles by Tom Carver

Anthony Cary

Anthony Cary is Chairman of the Canada-UK Council. His career was in the FCO, where he was British Ambassador to Sweden (2003-2006) and High Commissioner to Canada (2007-2010). Other postings included Berlin, Kuala Lumpur and Washington DC. He served twice on secondment to the European Commission, latterly as Chris Patten’s chef de cabinet.

Articles by Anthony Cary

► Mapping the future of the European Union / October 2023

Louisa Casson

Louisa Casson works at E3G, an environmental NGO in London, to support civil society engagement with European climate and energy politics. She engages with environmental and development NGOs, progressive businesses, cities and campaigners to build national pressure for strong climate leadership from the EU. Louisa tweets at @LouisaCasson.

Articles by Louisa Casson

Stephen Castle

Stephen Castle is London correspondent of the New York Times, and previously was Brussels bureau chief of the International Herald Tribune, Europe correspondent of the Independent, and political editor of the Independent on Sunday.

Articles by Stephen Castle

Lucian Cernat

Dr. Lucian Cernat is the Chief Trade Economist of the European Commission. He is a former trade diplomat and worked for almost a decade as a United Nations official in charge of trade and development projects. He expresses his personal views in this article.

Articles by Lucian Cernat

► Towards "Trade Policy Analysis 2.0" / December 2014

Céline Charveriat

Céline Charveriat is Executive Director of the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) – a sustainability think tank based in Brussels and London.

Articles by Céline Charveriat

► A wheelbarrow of soil / July 2017

Peter Chase

Peter Chase is a former U.S. diplomat, a non-resident fellow of the German Marshall Fund, and currently Vice President, Europe for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Articles by Peter Chase

► Turbocharging transatlantic regulatory cooperation / July 2013

Stephen Cheney

BGen Stephen Cheney is the Chief Executive Officer of the American Security Project (ASP). He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and has over 30 years experience as a Marine. His career included a wide variety of command and staff positions with the operating forces and the supporting establishment. His primary specialty was artillery, but he focused extensively on entry-level training, commanding at every echelon at both Marine Corps Recruit Depots, to include being the Commanding General at Parris Island. He served several years in Japan and has traveled extensively throughout the Middle East and Asia.

Articles by Stephen Cheney

► Trade agreement will enhance national security / July 2013

Edward Hunter Christie

Edward Hunter CHRISTIE is Defence Economist at NATO. In this capacity he is responsible for the production of assessments and briefings on defence economics, and on the relationship between economic developments and international security, for both the Office of the Secretary General and for Allied Delegations. Before joining NATO, Edward started his career in applied research, with a focus on Eastern Europe. He then worked, as senior economic adviser and then chief economist, for a major industry association in Brussels.

Articles by Edward Hunter Christie

► In defence of the 2 per cent / November 2017

Poul Skytte Christoffersen

Poul Skytte Christoffersen is Danish nationality. Master of Economics from Copenhagen University. Diploma of Higher European Studies, College of Europe, Bruges. External lecturer and professor on international economics at University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen Business school. Long career in Diplomatic service, including as Danish ambassador to the EU for 9 years. Has also served in various capacities in European Institutions (Head of Cabinet in the Council and in the Commission, Special Advisor to EU High Representative on setting up the European External Action Service). Ambassador to Italy and to Belgium. Retired from public Service in 2014. Presently living in Brussels and active as Senior Advisor in TENEO-Brussels as well as in think tanks works on European Affairs in Copenhagen and Brussels. Frequent public Speaker and commentator on Europe.

Articles by Poul Skytte Christoffersen

► Re-enforcing the EU's rule book for national budgetary policy / October 2021

Federico Cilauro

Federico Cilauro is a manager in Frontier Economics’ public policy practice. Federico has 10 years’ experience in assessing the economic value of digital technology, evaluating public interventions to support and regulate the digital economy, and supporting the design of data policies.

Articles by Federico Cilauro

► The EU’s risky curbs on data flows / March 2022

Nigel Clarke

Nigel Clarke is a British composer who studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music and was awarded the Academy’s highest distinction, the Queen’s Commendation for Excellence. Later he gained a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Salford. In 1997 the U.S. Ambassador to the UK (William J. Crowe, Jr.) invited Clarke to join the U.S. Embassy’s flagship exchange programme, ‘The United States International Visitor Leadership Programme’ and as alumnus of this programme, he is a member of the John Adams Society. Clarke has written for symphony orchestra, brass band, and many chamber music combinations, as well as collaborating on several major film scores. His compositions are recorded on the prestigious labels: Naxos, Toccata Classics, Metier, Universal Music, Varese Sarabande, Alhambra Records and Colosseum. Clarke has also received regular performances worldwide including in Argentina, Australia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, China, Croatia, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, Kosovo, Lebanon, Macedonia, New Zealand, Norway, South Korea, Turkey, New Zealand, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Turkey, Ukraine, the United States of America, as well as throughout the European Union. Nigel is currently putting the final touches to a large-scale Symphony for Violin and Orchestra entitled the `Prophecies of Merlin’, to be recorded in 2022.

Articles by Nigel Clarke

► Is the UK heading for cultural isolation? / September 2021

Stephen Clarke

Stephen is a Research & Policy Analyst at the Resolution Foundation. He previously worked at the Legatum Institute and Civitas. His work has concentrated mainly on issues of economic policy, financial sector reform and international development. Stephen's work at the Foundation focuses on city economies.

Articles by Stephen Clarke

► Explaining Brexit: what an analysis of place tells us / July 2016

Noel Clehane

Noel Clehane is the Global Head of Regulatory & Public Policy Affairs for the BDO professional services network and is based at its Global Office in Brussels. He is also an elected board member of the European Movement International and chairman of the Brussels branch of the European Movement Ireland. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Accountants Ireland and also a Fellow and Council Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW).

Articles by Noel Clehane

► The future of EU-ASEAN trade ties and the link to Brexit / June 2017

Pieter Cleppe

Pieter Cleppe is the Head of the Brussels office of Open Europe (Open Europe Brussels VZW). He is a frequent contributor to the broadcast and print media across Europe, frequently discussing EU reform, the refugee crisis and the eurocrisis. A trained lawyer, Pieter previously practiced law in Belgium, and has worked as a cabinet advisor and speechwriter to the Belgian State Secretary for Administrative Reform. Pieter also previously worked as an analyst at the Belgium’s Itinera Institute, which he helped to found.

Articles by Pieter Cleppe

► Granting Britain all of the EU’s benefits is in the EU’s interest / May 2017

Ade Clewlow

Ade Clewlow spent the majority of his career in the British Army, less a 16 month sabbatical during which time he was a journalist with the BBC and was Janes Defence Weekly's correspondent in Lisbon, Portugal. His last role in the military was as the senior advisor on Somalia in the UK MoD where he was also a member of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Somalia Unit. Spending his time on both sides of Whitehall, he led the MoD's contribution to the Somalia conference in 2012 and he authored two military operations, one of which is still running in Somalia. He retired from the military in July 2012 as a Lieutenant Colonel, established Setima Consulting, and worked in a strategic communications role in Somalia. He is currently involved in overseas defence education.

Articles by Ade Clewlow

► EU security and defence policy – with or without the UK? / March 2014

Jim Cloos

Jim Cloos is presently Secretary general of TEPSA (Trans European Policy Studies Association) and a Senior Associate Fellow at the Egmont Institute. He is also a Board member of the EPC. He retired from his job as DG for General and Institutional Policy at the General Secretariat of the Council at the end of January 2021. In the nineties he was Head of Cabinet to the President of the European Commission and the EU Sherpa within the G7/G8.

In 1983, he published, with Renate Fritsch-Bournazel et André Brigot, 'Les Allemands au coeur de l'Europe' (Fondation pour les Études de Défense Nationale, Paris). He is one of the authors of 'Le traité de Maastricht: genèse, analyse, commentaires' (Cloos, Reinesch, Vignes, Weyland; Bruylant 1993). He is a co-author of 'National Leaders and the Making of Europe - key episodes in the life of the European Council' published by John Harper Publishing in 2015. He has published numerous articles on European issues.

Articles by Jim Cloos

► A reset in EU UK relations: if not not now, when? / June 2024

Jo Coelmont

Brigadier-General (Ret.) Jo Coelmont, former Military Representative of Belgium to the EU Military Committee, is a Senior Research Fellow at Egmont and a Senior Fellow of the Royal Higher Institute for Defence in Brussels.

Articles by Jo Coelmont

► An EU Security Council and a European Commissioner for Security and Defence: the final pieces of the Union’s Common Security and Defence Policy puzzle? / September 2019

David Coen

David Coen is Professor of Public Policy at the Department of Political Science, and founding Director of the Global Governance Institute at University College London. He currently holds a European Union H20/20 on Global Governance. He has published extensively in leading journals such as Journal of European Public Policy, Business & Society, Governance, and West European Politics. Recent books include the Handbook on Business and Government (2010) OUP, Global Climate Governance (2020) CUP, and Business Lobbying in the EU (2021), OUP. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7986-0131

Articles by David Coen

► Hedging bets: UK business lobbying in Brussels post-Brexit / July 2022

Annabella Coldrick

Annabella Coldrick is head of public affairs at the UK consumer organisation Which?

Articles by Annabella Coldrick

► What does TTIP mean for consumers? / April 2014

Elizabeth Collett

Elizabeth Collett is the Founding Director of the Brussels-based think tank the Migration Policy Institute Europe. Her work focuses in particular on European migration and immigrant integration policy. She convenes MPI Europe’s working group on the future of the Common European Asylum System (EU Asylum: Towards 2020), bringing together senior policymakers from more than a dozen European countries to discuss future asylum policy reform.

Articles by Elizabeth Collett

► No man left behind? Why the UK needs to remember its “Brexpats” / April 2017

Francesca Colli

Francesca Colli is a Research Fellow in the European Affairs programme at the Egmont Institute for International Relations and a substitute lecturer at the Leuven Institute for International and European Studies (LINES), KU Leuven. Originally from Australia, she holds a PhD in Social Sciences and an MA in European Studies from KU Leuven, and a BA in International Studies from Macquarie University, Sydney. She is a former visiting scholar at the Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS) in Florence.

Articles by Francesca Colli

► Mainstreaming the Just Transition in the EU / April 2020

Nick Collier

Nick Collier joined the City of London Corporation as its new Managing Director of the Brussels office in March 2019. He was previously Global Head of Government Relations at Refinitiv (Thomson Reuters) and before that worked at a range of organisations in the financial services sector, including Morgan Stanley and the Bank of England and, until recently, served as Chair of TheCityUK’s Public Affairs Group as well as Deputy Chair of the International Regulatory Strategy Group. Nick is chair of diplomatic engagement at the International Business and Diplomatic Exchange.

Articles by Nick Collier

Michael Collins

Michael Collins represents Europe’s private equity, venture capital and infrastructure sectors, as well as their investors, across the EU institutions. He joined the EVCA (as Invest Europe was named at that time) in 2013 from Citigroup, where he was Managing Director for European Government Affairs. Prior to Citigroup, Michael spent four years with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office in Brussels, as Financial Counsellor at the UK Permanent Representation to the EU (UK Rep).

Articles by Michael Collins

Tony Connelly

Tony Connelly is Europe Editor of RTE, Ireland’s national broadcaster. His book Don’t Mention the Wars: a Journey Through European Stereotypes is published by New Island Books and is available on Amazon.

Articles by Tony Connelly

► Walking the tightrope: Ireland’s Brexit dilemma / October 2016

Richard Corbett

Richard Corbett CBE was a member of the European Parliament from 1996-2009 and 2014-2020. He was at various times the Parliament’s rapporteur on the Constitutional and Lisbon Treaties, coordinator of the Socialist Group on constitutional questions and leader of the UK Labour Party MEPs. From 2010-2014 he was senior advisor to the President of the European Council. He has written widely on EU affairs, including co-editing The European Union: how does it work? (O.U.P., 6th edition 2022) and The European Parliament (10th edition, 2024)..

Articles by Richard Corbett

Elisabetta Cornago

Elisabetta Cornago is a research fellow at the Centre for European Reform, focusing on EU energy and climate policy from an economics perspective. Before joining the CER, Elisabetta worked as environmental economist at the OECD, and as energy policy analyst at the International Energy Agency.

Articles by Elisabetta Cornago

► The EU needs a permanent recovery fund / December 2021

Patrick Costello

Patrick Costello served as an EU official for 27 years working in the European Parliament, European Commission and EEAS and has served in a number of private offices including those of Chris Patten, Vice-President Margot Wallström (as deputy Head of Cabinet), EP President Josep Borrell (as diplomatic adviser) and Karmenu Vella (as Head of Cabinet). Other jobs have included EEAS head of division for democracy and electoral observation, head of division for the Middle East and deputy to the Chair of the Political and Security Committee. Prior to joining the European Institutions, he worked for the UN in Haiti (MICIVIH) and as an electoral observer in South Africa (UNOMSA). He started his career as a human rights campaigner. He has recently joined the advisory board of the European Partnership for Democracy.

Articles by Patrick Costello

► How to confront the Far Right in Europe / March 2024

John Cotter

Dr John Cotter is a lecturer in law at Keele University, United Kingdom. He specialises in EU institutional and procedural law. Prior to joining Keele University, he was a lecturer at the Department of International and European Law at Maastricht University, the Netherlands, and at Hasselt University, Belgium. He holds BCL (Law and German) and LLB degrees from University College Cork, Ireland, and a PhD in law from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He is qualified as a barrister in Ireland and in England & Wales, and practised at the Irish bar from 2007-2011.

Articles by John Cotter

► The decision not to extend the Brexit transition period – a retrospective / September 2021

Beatriz Cózar-Murillo

Beatriz Cózar-Murillo is a Joint Ph.D. researcher at the Institute for International and European Studies (GIES) of Ghent University and at Pablo de Olavide University (Spain). She holds a Master in European Studies from the University of Salamanca and a bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of Seville. Her research focuses on the Common Security and Defence Policy of the European Union and, in particular, on the study of the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO). Latest publication: PESCO as a Game-Changer for Differentiated Integration in CSDP after Brexit, European Papers, Vol. 7, 2022, No 3, pp. 1303-1324.

Articles by Beatriz Cózar-Murillo

► Only War / March 2023

Stefan Crets

Stefan Crets is the Executive Director of CSR Europe, the European platform for companies and stakeholders to exchange and cooperate to become European leaders in sustainable competitiveness and societal well-being.

Articles by Stefan Crets

Damon Culbert

Damon Culbert is a Content Writer and political commentator from the Immigration Advice Service, leading immigration lawyers in London and across the UK.

Articles by Damon Culbert

► How UK tech could be left behind after Brexit / September 2018

Nick Cunningham

Nicholas Cunningham is a policy analyst at the American Security Project focusing on climate change and next generation energy issues. Before joining ASP, he worked for Global Policy Group, a Washington DC-based consulting company, working on energy and environmental policy and regulation.

Articles by Nick Cunningham

► Is Russia's grip on European energy weakening? / November 2012

Maurizio Cuttin

Maurizio Cuttin is advisor to the rapporteur of the EESC's EU-UK Follow-up Committee - the youngest in the EESC's history. He is also the British Youth Council's elected UK Young Ambassador to the European Youth Forum.

Articles by Maurizio Cuttin

► Paving the way for UK-EU youth engagement / November 2023

Srdjan Cvijic

Srdjan Cvijic is a senior policy analyst on EU external relations at the Open Society Foundations. He is responsible for advocacy in the field of rights, values, and international law in EU external policies, particularly in relation to the use of armed drones, as well as broader topics under the EU Strategic Framework for Human Rights and Democracy. Additionally, he undertakes analysis and EU advocacy concerning Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, Southwest Asia, and the Western Balkans.

Articles by Srdjan Cvijic

► Beyond the migration route in the Western Balkans / November 2015

Andy Davey

Andy Davey was born in London. His dark years as a research chemist remain obscure, but after a rebirth in 1993, he emerged into the sunlit world of cartoons. Since then he has had cartoons and caricatures published in various UK and European newspapers and magazines such as The Guardian, The Times, The Sun, The Independent, The Independent on Sunday, The Scotsman, Private Eye, Punch (in its death throes), The Spectator, Prospect, Squib, E! Sharp, and the New Statesman. He drew a weekly “profile” caricature for The Sunday Telegraph and has also worked on the satirical TV cartoon series 2DTV and covered political events for Channel 5 and Sky TV News. Davey’s specialities are editorial/political cartoons and caricatures, extracting humour from the blackest of world news scenarios. He was also forced, kicking and screaming to hold the chairmanship of the UK Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation from 2006-2012. - See more at: http://www.andydavey.com/

Articles by Andy Davey

Lynn Davies

Lynn M. Davies is a co-director at Requat Advisory Ltd., where she provides research services to RAND Europe, the University of Oxford, and the University of Birmingham in the fields of health communication, child and family welfare, and evidence-based behaviour change. In collaboration with RAND Europe, she is currently contributing to research activities for the European Platform for Investing in Children (EPIC).

Articles by Lynn Davies

Cleo Davies

Dr Cleo Davies is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Warwick on the project 'Living with the Neighbours’. She has expertise on the EU institutions and decision-making, and the EU-UK relationship. Cleo obtained a PhD at the University of Edinburgh on the European Commission's response to the Global Financial Crisis in 2008-2010. Prior to academia, Cleo worked over five years in Brussels as a Political and Policy Advisory at European level. (@CleoDavies2)

Articles by Cleo Davies

Mark Dayan

Mark Dayan is Brexit and Trade Programme Lead at the Nuffield Trust, working on the implications of leaving the European Union and of trade agreements for the NHS, life sciences and social care. His publications include How will Brexit affect the UK's response to coronavirus? and Getting a Brexit deal that works for the NHS. Mark has also published work on healthcare in Scotland and Northern Ireland; integrated care across the UK; health inequalities; and on legislation. He leads the Nuffield Trust's engagement with Ministers, civil servants and parliamentarians as Head of Public Affairs, and analyses and responds to legislation affecting health and social care.

Articles by Mark Dayan

► Health: a domain for renewed EU-UK cooperation? / July 2024

Gael de Boissard

Gael de Boissard is Chairman of the Association for Financial Markets in Europe. This article is taken from Investing in Change – the Reform of Europe’s Financial Markets (AFME and Profile Books, February 2012)

Articles by Gael de Boissard

► After the crisis comes wrenching change / March 2012

Karel De Gucht

Karel De Gucht is the European Commissioner for Trade

Articles by Karel De Gucht

► Time to get down to business on transatlantic trade / July 2013

Emmanuel de Guzman

Emmanuel M. de Guzman is the secretary and vice chairperson of the Philippine Climate Change Commission. He was previously a senior advisor on disaster risk reduction with the World Meteorological Organization, the United Nations' agency for weather, climate and water concerns. Before that, he was a consultant for the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) on mainstreaming disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in national policies and plans. He has provided technical advice to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council on implementing the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, an international blueprint for reducing disaster risk and building resilience. He had served as a senior regional expert on disaster risk management for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretariat. He joined the Philippine Climate Change Commission in September 2015 and led the negotiations by the Philippines on the Paris Agreement at COP21.

Articles by Emmanuel de Guzman

► The heat is on for workers / May 2016

Moniek de Jong

Moniek de Jong is a post-doctoral researcher at Ghent University. She is currently working on the CIREC project on the geopolitics of natural gas supply, which is an energy transition fund (ETF) project, sponsored by the Belgian Federal Public Service Economy.

Articles by Moniek de Jong

► European gas imports: a geopolitical risky business / May 2023

Luis Pablo de la Horra

Luis Pablo de la Horra is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at the University of Valladolid. His research interests include macroeconomics, monetary theory, economic history, and finance. He has been published by several online media outlets, including the Foundation for Economic Education, The Intellectual Takeout and The American Conservative, among others. http://luispablodelahorra.com

Articles by Luis Pablo de la Horra

► Dealing with migration in Europe / August 2018

Pieter de Pous

Pieter de Pous joined E3G’s Berlin Office as a Senior Policy Advisor in April 2018. As an expert in EU environmental policies, politics and strategies, he is now supporting E3G’s work on Just Transition in Germany and CEE Countries, Coal Diplomacy as well as developing’s E3G’s Strategy for the EU. Prior to joining E3G, after a short period at NABU, BirdLife’s partner in Germany, he worked at the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), Europe’s largest environmental umbrella organisation. Since 2010 he worked as the EEB's Policy Director in Brussels, providing strategic guidance and leadership to their policy work.

Articles by Pieter de Pous

Jean De Ruyt

Jean De Ruyt is a senior career diplomat, latterly Ambassador of Belgium to the EU, UN and NATO. Known for his insightful and clear thinking of complex issues, Jean De Ruyt is currently a Senior Policy Advisor for Covington & Burling in Brussels and on the Board of McLarty Associates, Washington. He is also a visiting Professor at both Louvain University and the Natolin College of Europe.

Articles by Jean De Ruyt

Franziska Deeg

Franziska Deeg is from Germany and for her Master thesis, she is conducting a programme evaluation in Chiapas, Mexico, which will support an NGO in evidence-based action taking.

Articles by Franziska Deeg

► 5G: The future is digital / May 2018

Damien Degeorges

Dr Damien Degeorges is a member of the Danish security study network CHINA-SEC, and a former guest lecturer in international politics at the University of Greenland. He used to be a freelance foreign correspondent for the Greenlandic newspaper ‘AG/Grønlandsposten’. He is the author of The Role of Greenland in the Arctic.

Articles by Damien Degeorges

► Re-shaping the EU's relations with Greenland in the Arctic / November 2012

Claudia Delpero

Claudia Delpero is the founder and editor of Europe Street News, an online magazine on citizens’ rights in the European Union and the UK. An Italian journalist based in London, Claudia has worked in media and public affairs across Europe, China and Africa. After starting as a journalist in Italy, Claudia worked as a press officer at the European Parliament and as head of communications at the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Brussels and Beijing. In addition to Europe Street News, she regularly writes for specialist publications on EU and international affairs.

Articles by Claudia Delpero

► Britons and the loss of free movement in the EU / December 2020

Mustafa Demir

Dr. Mustafa Demir is a Research Fellow specializing in International Politics. His research primarily explores foreign policy-making, with a keen focus on geopolitics and energy security; populist politics, religion and international relations. Currently, his work is centered on examining the dynamics of EU-UK relations, particularly in the context of energy security.

Articles by Mustafa Demir

► EU’s plans for 2024: aspiration or perspiration? / January 2024

Susi Dennison

Susi Dennison is a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and director of ECFR’s European Power programme. In this role, she explores issues relating to strategy, cohesion, and politics to achieve a collective EU foreign and security policy. She led ECFR’s European Foreign Policy Scorecard project for five years and, since the beginning of 2019, she has overseen research for ECFR’s Unlock project. Her most recent publications include “Give the people what they want: popular demand for a strong EU foreign policy”, and “What Europeans really want: Five myths debunked”, with Ivan Krastev and Mark Leonard, ahead of the 2019 European Parliament election.

Articles by Susi Dennison

Sara Dethier

Sara Dethier is a Researcher in E3G's Brussels office where her work focuses on EU sustainable finance and clean economy policy. Sara works with the finance, industry and innovation communities in Brussels and across Europe to advocate for ambitious policy reforms towards a climate-neutral and resilient economy. Her areas of expertise include sustainable finance, the decarbonisation of energy-intensive industries, and climate-related research and innovation policy.

Articles by Sara Dethier

► Financial policy choices to shape Europe for decades to come / September 2020

Axelle Devaux

Axelle Devaux is a research leader at RAND Europe and deputy head of the RAND Europe Brussels office. Her research focuses on education, democratic participation and social exclusion.

Articles by Axelle Devaux

Patrick Diamond

Patrick Diamond is co-chair of Policy Network and is lecturer in Public Policy at Queen Mary, University of London, Gwilym Gibbon fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and a visiting fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of Oxford. He is the former head of policy planning in 10 Downing Street and senior policy adviser to the prime minister. His recent publications include: His recent publications include: Can Labour Win? The Hard Road to Power (with Giles Radice, 2015); The Predistribution Agenda: Tackling Inequality and Supporting Sustainable Growth (with Claudia Chwalisz, 2015); Governing Britain: Power, Politics and the Prime Minister (2013);
After the Third Way (with Olaf Cramme, 2012); Beyond New Labour (with Roger Liddle, 2009); Social Justice in the Global Age (with Olaf Cramme, 2009); and Global Europe, Social Europe (with Anthony Giddens, 2006).

Articles by Patrick Diamond

Sebastian Diessner

Sebastian Diessner is a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research focuses on the political economy of macroeconomic policy and is funded by a research grant from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. He tweets @SebDiessner.

Articles by Sebastian Diessner

► Now it is the turn of leaders to do ‘whatever it takes’ to save Europe / April 2020

Andeas Dimmelmeier

Andreas Dimmelmeier works as a Policy Analyst on Climate and Environment at FEPS. He holds a PhD in Political Science and Political Economy from Copenhagen Business School and the University of Warwick. His doctoral research focused on the expert networks in the emergence of sustainable finance, the role that economic ideas played in this process, and how socio-technical tools such as standards, metrics, and scenarios have made sustainable finance governable. Andreas has published on the interactions between finance and financial regulation and the transition towards a sustainable economy in international peer-reviewed academic journals and edited volumes. In addition, he has contributed to policy reports and policy briefs on these topics.

Articles by Andeas Dimmelmeier

► The circular economy and green jobs / March 2022

Emma Disley

Emma Disley is an associate research group director at RAND Europe, working primarily on research related to communities, safety and justice. Her research interests span a variety of topics relating to crime and criminal justice, including policing, international law enforcement cooperation, offender management and interventions, imprisonment, drug policy and serious and organised crime.

Articles by Emma Disley

Dante Disparte

Dante A. Disparte is the founder and CEO of Risk Cooperative, a D.C.-based risk and insurance advisory firm and a board member of the American Security Project, where he founded and chairs the Business Council. He is the co-author of Global Risk Agility and Decision Making (Macmillan, 2016) and is a regulator contributor to Harvard Business Review, Huffington Post, International Policy Digest, among others.

Articles by Dante Disparte

► Data protection and information security arbitrage / August 2017

Hugo Dixon

Hugo Dixon is a journalist, entrepreneur and campaigner. He is chairman and editor-in-chief of InFacts and co-founder of CommonGround. He founded Breakingviews. He writes for The Guardian, The FT, Reuters and other publications. He is author of The In/Out Question: Why Britain should stay in the EU and fight to make it better.

Articles by Hugo Dixon

Sandrine Dixson-Decleve

Sandrine Dixson-Declève is a senior associate at E3G. She is also currently the co-president of the Club of Rome, an organisation of individuals who share a common concern for the future of humanity and strive to make a difference.

Articles by Sandrine Dixson-Decleve

► Defining "unsustainable" economic activities / May 2019

Carl Dolan

Carl Dolan has worked at Transparency International EU since 2011 and became its director in 2013. He has previously worked in UK Research Councils, the European Commission and the European Foundation Centre. He holds degrees in economics and philosophy from University College Dublin (1991-97) and studied and taught political philosophy at the University of Bristol (1999-2002).

Articles by Carl Dolan

► Whatever happened to the Eurogroup’s accountability? / February 2019

Rafiq Dossani

Rafiq Dossani is director of the RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy, a senior economist at the RAND Corporation, and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He works on education, finance, regional development, security, trade, and technology issues. Previously, Dossani was director of Stanford University's Center for South Asia and a senior research scholar at Stanford University's Institute for International Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in finance from Northwestern University, an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and a B.A. in economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi.

Articles by Rafiq Dossani

► Demystifying the Belt and Road Initiative / June 2020

Eoin Drea

Dr. Eoin Drea is Senior Researcher at the centre-right Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies think tank in Brussels. His work focusses on Anglo-Irish economic relations and on the future relationship between London and Brussels. He is a regular media commentator on Irish and British affairs whose opinions can be found in Politico, The Irish Times and The Guardian amongst others. He also writes a contrarian view of European affairs at eoindrea.com.

Articles by Eoin Drea

► Brexit isn’t Ireland’s biggest problem in Europe / December 2021

Oscar du Roy

Oscar du Roy is a Research Assistant at ECIPE and is from Belgium. He holds a MSc in economics from Barcelona School of Economics (2022) and a MSc in economic analysis and European policy from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (2020) with honours. Between his two masters he was an assistant in the macroeconomic forecasting unit at the Belgian Federal Planning Bureau and subsequently held a position of research assistant for Dr. Mirabelle Muuls at Imperial College London. His research interests lie in digital trade, energy economics, and competition policy.

Articles by Oscar du Roy

► Are Europeans getting (relatively) poorer? / July 2023

Andrew Duff

Andrew Duff is a Senior Fellow of the European Policy Centre. He represented the European Parliament at the drafting of the Treaty of Lisbon. @AndrewDuffEU.

Articles by Andrew Duff

Bobby Duffy

Bobby Duffy is Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Policy Institute at King's. Prior to joining King's, Bobby was Managing Director of the Ipsos MORI Social Research Institute, which is a team of around 230 researchers in London, Manchester, Edinburgh and Brussels, and Global Director of the Ipsos Social Research Institute, across around 30 countries. Bobby also sits on several advisory boards for think tanks and universities, as well as the Campaign for Social Science.

His book, 'The Perils of Perception – why we’re wrong about nearly everything', was published by Atlantic books in September, drawing on a unique set of global studies on how people misperceive things like immigration levels, crime rates, obesity levels and many more key social realities.

Articles by Bobby Duffy

Manon Dufour

Manon Dufour is Head of E3G’s Brussels office, working on accelerating Europe’s low carbon transition. Her areas of focus range from political discussions on the future of Europe to energy infrastructure, energy market reform or the role of state aid in the low carbon transition. Prior to joining E3G, Manon worked for Bloomberg New Energy Finance in London and New York, where she helped conceive the company’s service offering on the global carbon and European power markets, and participated in their ongoing analysis.

Articles by Manon Dufour

► To rebuild Europe, leaders best talk climate fast and often / December 2017

Kerstin Duhme

Kerstin Duhme is Managing Director at FTI Consulting where she heads various programmes for clients in the energy and environment sectors, including the shale gas sector. Before that she was an election campaigner for the Greens and worked for German MEP Elisabeth Schroedter inside both the German Bundestag and European Parliament focusing on all facets of sustainable development.

Articles by Kerstin Duhme

► What future for Europe's energy supply? / May 2012

Roch Dunin-Wasowicz

Dr Roch Dunin-Wąsowicz is a sociologist. He graduated from the New School for Social Research in New York City and the London School of Economics and Political Science. Currently, he lectures sociology at the UCL Social Research Institute and researches European civil society at LSE IDEAS. He is the author of numerous reports and articles on the social organization and civic identity of Polish migrants in the UK, on the social repercussions of Brexit, and on European democracy.

Articles by Roch Dunin-Wasowicz

Tim Durrant

Tim Durrant joined the Institute for Government (IfG) in November 2017 as a senior researcher on the IfG’s Brexit programme. Prior to joining the Institute, he worked at HM Treasury on the Government’s Brexit strategy. During his time in the civil service Tim also worked on the UK’s relationships with EU member states, spending on energy and climate change policies, and the UK’s co-operation on international development with members of the Gulf Co-operation Council.

Articles by Tim Durrant

► What does the UK government think about the economics of Brexit? / January 2018

Catherine E de Vries

Catherine E. de Vries is Professor of Politics at Bocconi University in Milan and the cofounder of eupinions, a EU-wide regular survey on European public opinion. She has a strong commitment to and interest in unravelling some of the most important societal and political problems facing Europe today, such as Euroscepticism and the EU’s future, the rise of parties challenging the political mainstream and the electoral and political consequences of corruption and malfeasance. She has published extensively in academic journals and the popular press. Over the years, she has received widespread recognition for her work, such as the Emerging Scholar Award for contribution to the field of elections, public opinion and voting behaviour from the American Political Science Association in 2014 and election as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum in 2013.

Articles by Catherine E de Vries

Elizabeth E. de Vries

Catherine E. de Vries is a Westerdijk Chair and Professor of Political Behaviour in Europe at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She has a strong commitment to and interest in unravelling some of the most important societal and political problems facing Europe today, such as Euroscepticism and the EU’s future, the rise of parties challenging the political mainstream and the electoral and political consequences of corruption and malfeasance. She has published extensively in academic journals and the popular press. Over the years, she has received widespread recognition for her work, such as the Emerging Scholar Award for contribution to the field of elections, public opinion and voting behaviour from the American Political Science Association in 2014 and election as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum in 2013.

Articles by Elizabeth E. de Vries

John Edward

John Edward is the first Head of Operations since the launch of the Scottish Council on Global Affairs. His most recent role was as the Chief Executive of the Scottish Council of Independent Schools, covering all aspects of school-age education, regulation and participation. Prior to that, John was Head of the European Parliament’s Office in Scotland, covering the European elections of 2004 and 2009. A graduate of St Andrews and Glasgow universities, John worked for 9 years in Brussels firstly in the then-new European Policy Centre, as personal assistant to Max Kohnstamm. He was subsequently EU Policy Manager for Scotland Europa, Brussels. A trustee of the Scottish European Educational Trust, and member of the Scottish Parliament’s Commission on Parliamentary Reform, John was also Chief Spokesman for the non-party political Scotland Stronger in Europe campaign for the 2016 EU referendum.

Articles by John Edward

► To see ourselves… / May 2023

Guy Edwards

Guy Edwards is a Research Fellow at the Center for Environmental Studies and co-director of the Climate and Development Lab at Brown University.

Articles by Guy Edwards

► A new EU/Latin America and the Caribbean coalition for climate change / November 2013

Charlie Edwards

Charlie Edwards is a Senior Research Fellow and Director of National Security and Resilience Studies at the Royal United Services Institute. Prior to RUSI he was a Research Leader at the RAND Corporation focusing on Defence and Security where he conducted research and analysis on a broad range of subject areas including: the evaluation and implementation of counter-violent extremism programmes in Europe and Africa, UK cyber strategy, European emergency management, and the role of the internet in the process of radicalisation. He has undertaken fieldwork in Iraq, Somalia, and the wider Horn of Africa region.

Articles by Charlie Edwards

► Actions speak louder than words / March 2013

Jan Eichhorn

Dr Jan Eichhorn is a Chancellor’s Fellow in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on public attitudes on political events and political engagement of publics in democratic processes.

Articles by Jan Eichhorn

► Brexit: a view from the continent / March 2016

Till Eichler

Till Eichler is a researcher in E3G’s Political Economy and Governance team in Brussels, working on climate governance and EU politics.

Articles by Till Eichler

► 2040 climate target: when scientific advice drives the political debate / January 2024

Uffe Elbæk

Uffe Elbæk is the Danish Minister of Culture

Articles by Uffe Elbæk

► From Spotify to Angry Birds: Supporting the creative sector in a digital world / June 2012

Niklas Elert

Niklas Elert has a Ph.D. in economics and is a Research Fellow at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) in Stockholm, Sweden. He defended his Ph.D thesis Economic Dynamism: Essays on Firm Entry and Firm Growth in 2014 at Örebro University, Sweden. His research focuses on economic dynamism, the relationship between entrepreneurship and institutions, and the effects of entrepreneurship education and training efforts. His book The Challenge of the Human Ape (Timbro, 2014; in Swedish) deals with the relationship between economic growth an the environment. He is the coauthor of the book Institutional Reform for Innovation and Entrepreneurship: An Agenda for Europe (Springer, 2017). He has also worked as an editorial writer at the Swedish newspaper Expressen.

Articles by Niklas Elert

► A reform strategy for an entrepreneurial Europe / December 2019

Milan Elkerbout

Milan Elkerbout is a Research Fellow and Head of the climate policy programme at CEPS. He has been working in the climate and energy unit of CEPS since late 2014. In 2019 and 2020, Milan was a Mistra visiting fellow at the IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute in Stockholm, as part of the ongoing Mistra Carbon Exit research programme.

Milan’s research focuses on EU climate policy, in particular the EU emissions trading system (ETS) and industrial decarbonisation policies. He has written extensively for CEPS and externally on the policy mix to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the steel sector and other energy-intensive industries. He also focuses on the role of negative emissions and carbon capture and storage (CCS) in EU climate policy. Other topics of interest include state aid control, industrial policy, and trade-climate policy interactions.

Articles by Milan Elkerbout

► In a green subsidy race, the EU should not imitate the US / December 2022

James Elles

James Elles was a British Conservative Member of the European Parliament from 1984 to 2014. He is the Co-founder of the European Internet Forum; the Founder and Chairman of the Transatlantic Policy Network; and the Honorary President of the European Strategy and Policy Analysis System.

Articles by James Elles

► Fiction Fact and Future: the essence of EU democracy / November 2019

Fadi Elsalameen

Fadi Elsalameen is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the American Security Project and a Principal of YCF Group LLC, a private international investment firm. The firm owns and operates a variety of companies across the shipping, agriculture, telecommuncations, education and man power development sectors.

Articles by Fadi Elsalameen

► The U.S. and EU partnership to defeat ISIL / October 2014

Michael Emerson

Michael Emerson is Associate Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels, since 1998. A graduate of Balliol College, Oxford, he first worked as an economist at OECD, Paris (1966-1973). He then moved to the European Commission (1973-1996), with positions including economic adviser to the President (Roy Jenkins), and EU ambassador to Moscow (1991-1996). He was then Senior Research Fellow at the London School of Economics (1996-1998). Numerous publications on EU economic and foreign policies.

Articles by Michael Emerson

► The "Balance of Competences" and the UK's place in the EU / June 2014

Bill Emmott

Bill Emmott was editor-in-chief of The Economist in 1993-2006, since when he has been writing books on global affairs as well as columns for La Stampa, the Financial Times and Nikkei Business, and has collaborated with the Italian journalist Annalisa Piras on two documentaries, "Girlfriend in a Coma" (2013) and "The Great European Disaster Movie" (2015). They are co-founders of The Wake Up Foundation.

Articles by Bill Emmott

Charles Enoch

Charles Enoch is Deputy Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington D.C., USA. He was the Mission Chief for the recent IMF European Union financial sector assessment program (FSAP). He led technical assistance and surveillance missions to major countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, has published extensively in monetary and financial sector issues in IMF Working Papers and the IMF's Occasional Papers (monograph) series, and has edited several books, including Statistical Implications of Inflation Targeting, Building Strong Banks, and Financial Risks, Stability, and Globalization. He also held positions in the Bank of England (1976-87), and served as the IMF's UK Alternate Executive Director (1987-90).

Articles by Charles Enoch

► State aid and Europe's financial sector / April 2013

Fredrik Erixon

Fredrik Erixon is the founding director of he European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE) and its Five Freedoms Project. He is the author of several books and studies in the fields of international economics and trade policy.

Articles by Fredrik Erixon

Pepe Escrig

Pepe Escrig is a researcher in E3G’s Political Economy and Governance team in Brussels, working on EU politics and climate governance.

Articles by Pepe Escrig

► 2040 climate target: when scientific advice drives the political debate / January 2024

Tom Evans

Tom Evans is a Researcher at E3G in London working in the Climate Diplomacy team. He is currently supporting E3G’s work on COP26 strategy and engagement.

Articles by Tom Evans

► Climate action after COVID-19 / April 2020

Rupert Evenett

Dr Rupert Evenett is chief executive of Engaged Capital, a social investment broker and investor. He is author, with Karl Richter, of “Making Good in Social Impact Investment” published in Autumn 2011 and is a non-executive director of The Social Investment Business, with many years experience of equity market investment and fundraising.

Articles by Rupert Evenett

► How Europe can lead in "social impact investment" / February 2012

Steven Everts

Dr Steven Everts is the Director of the EU Institute for Security Studies. Before heading the Institute, he was at the European External Action Service where he served as Senior Advisor to Josep Borrell on Strategy and Communications. Previously, he was a Senior Advisor in the Asia-Pacific Department of the EEAS. He was also a Member of the Cabinet of Catherine Ashton and Javier Solana. Before his time at the EU, Dr Everts was a Senior Research Fellow at the London-based Centre for European Reform and Director of the CER's transatlantic programme, which covered the full range of US-European relations.

Articles by Steven Everts

Elvire Fabry

Dr Elvire Fabry is Senior Research Fellow at the Jacques Delors Institute. She is a member of the editorial board of the international forecasting journal Futuribles and of the policy advisory committee of the European Movement, France. Some of her most recent publications include:

Transition: The Hitchhicker’s guide to the Brexit Galaxy

Protection without protectionism

Trump Trade: more bark than bite

Articles by Elvire Fabry

Nick Fahy

Nick Fahy is Director of the Health and Wellbeing Research Group at RAND Europe, where he leads a team of researchers work on areas including public health, health systems and policy, technology and innovation, and workplace health and wellbeing. He has wide-ranging policy and research experience, having worked for the United Kingdom Department of Health and a range of jobs in the European Commission (most recently as head of unit for health information), with particular interests in innovation, implementation and evidence for policy. Nick Fahy joined RAND Europe from the University of Oxford, where he was a senior researcher in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences and where he remains a fellow at Green Templeton College. Nick is also a senior external expert on health systems innovation for the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, and Professor of Policy Analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School.

Articles by Nick Fahy

► Health: a domain for renewed EU-UK cooperation? / July 2024

Claire Falconer

Claire Falconer joined the Freedom Fund in May 2019 as Senior Programme Officer for the Freedom Rising initiative, working to empower and connect anti-slavery leaders around the world. Claire has over ten years’ experience conducting research, advocacy and capacity building activities on slavery issues in South East Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Europe. Prior to joining the Freedom Fund, Claire was the Legal Director and co-founder of Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX), a London based NGO that advocates to prevent trafficking for labour exploitation.

Articles by Claire Falconer

► Taking a ‘gender perspective’ on human trafficking means investing in women’s leadership / March 2020

Giovanni Faleg

Giovanni Faleg (PhD) is a Consultant at the World Bank Group in advisory services and learning. He is also Associate Researcher at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), focusing on EU foreign and security policy. He has been rapporteur of the CEPS Task Force Report "More Union in European Defence" (2015): http://www.ceps.eu/book/more-union-european-defence.

Articles by Giovanni Faleg

Karl Falkenberg

Karl Falkenberg is a Senior Advisor at Shearwater and a former senior trade official in the European Commission.

Articles by Karl Falkenberg

► For EU-US trade cooperation on China to start, the US needs to unwind the Trump legacy / February 2021

Petros Fassoulas

Petros has been the Secretary General of the European Movement International since July 2015. Previously Petros was Chair of the European Movement UK. He also worked as ACCA’s Head of Public Affairs, Europe and as EU Affairs Adviser at the UK’s Financial Services Authority. Before that he was EU Affairs Adviser at the UK Parliament. Petros also spent 5 years in Brussels, working for the European Commission, the Committee of the Regions as well as in advocacy and lobbying.

Articles by Petros Fassoulas

► Patience is in short supply and populism reigns / February 2015

Jonathan Faull

Sir Jonathan Faull is Chair, European Public Affairs, at the Brunswick Group. He was formerly Chief Spokesman and Director General Press and Communication, Justice and Home Affairs, Internal Market and Services, Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, Task Force on Relations with the UK at the European Commission.

Articles by Jonathan Faull

Richard Feasey

Richard Feasey is a Senior Adviser to the Centre on Regulation in Europe and the UK Payment Systems Regulator and a Member of the UK Competition and Markets Authority and the National Infrastructure Commission of Wales. He has been involved in regulation of the telecommunications sector in Europe since the 1990s, including over 10 years as Policy Director for Vodafone plc.

Articles by Richard Feasey

► Will the Digital Markets Act work? / March 2021

Katja Fedina

Katya Fedina is a senior analyst at RAND, working primarily for RAND Europe in the areas of defence and security. Research interests include the future of NATO, Nordic and Baltic defence; strategy and geopolitics; force and capability development, mostly focused on the application of multidisciplinary approaches to improve decision-making with a policy/strategy context.

Articles by Katja Fedina

► What Sweden’s accession means for NATO / March 2024

Gabriel Felbermayr

Prof. Gabriel Felbermayr, Ifo Institute and LMU, Munich. Gabriel is an economics professor at the university of Munich and is director of Ifo’s Center for International Economics. His research and policy consulting focuses on the quantitative effects of trade policy, international migration, and climate policies.

Articles by Gabriel Felbermayr

► Brexit – a losing deal for everybody / April 2015

Daniel Fiott

Daniel Fiott is an FWO Researcher at the Institute for European Studies - Vrije Universiteit Brussel and a Senior Editor of European Geostrategy. His research mainly focuses on Europe's defence industry. Previously, he was an Associate Analyst at the EU Institute for Security Studies.

Articles by Daniel Fiott

► A new approach to EU defence procurement / October 2014

Lisa Fischer

Lisa Fischer works as a Senior Policy Advisor in E3G’s London office. Lisa’s work concentrates on EU energy, infrastructure and climate change policy. A key element to her work is increasing alignment between EU member states’ and EU policy with regards to the clean economy transition. https://www.e3g.org/

Articles by Lisa Fischer

► Funding for the future, not for fossils / April 2018

Hal Fish

Hal Fish is a content writer and correspondent for the UK's leading Immigration Advice Service.

Articles by Hal Fish

► Spouse visa crackdown will segregate EU-UK families / June 2019

Rory Fitzgerald

Professor Rory Fitzgerald is the Director of the European Social Survey based at City, University of London. Rory is an Associate Editor of the Survey Research Methods Journal.

Articles by Rory Fitzgerald

Lisandra Flach

Lisandra Flach is the director of the Center for International Economics at the ifo Institute in Munich and Professor of Economics at the LMU Munich. Her main area of research is international economics, with a focus on empirical analysis of international trade flows and the international activity of firms. She leads policy consultancy projects for organisations including the German Ministry of Economics and Energy and the Chamber of Commerce, and is associate editor of International Economics (Elsevier Journal).

Articles by Lisandra Flach

► No-deal Brexit has drastic implications for UK firms reliant on EU27 supply chains / October 2020

Stephen Flanagan

Stephen J. Flanagan is a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. He served in several senior positions in government, most recently as special assistant to the president and senior director for defense policy and strategy at the National Security Council (NSC) Staff from 2013 to 2015. He has published six books and more than 60 reports and journal articles on transatlantic, international security and defense issues, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He earned an A.B. in political science from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in international relations from the Fletcher School, Tufts University.

Articles by Stephen Flanagan

► US support for European Strategic Autonomy could boost transatlantic solidarity and security / November 2021

Lillian Flemons

Lillian Flemons is a research assistant at RAND Europe in the area of home affairs and social policy. She has a B.A. (Hons.) in modern and medieval languages from the University of Cambridge, with a focus on French, Spanish, Polish and Greek language, history and literature. Her M.Phil. in multi-disciplinary gender studies is also from the University of Cambridge, and her mixed methods dissertation focused on analysing the relationship between language policy and gender equality in Algeria.

Articles by Lillian Flemons

► Domestic violence support staff need more help to tackle challenges of the ‘shadow pandemic’ / March 2021

Greg Ford

Greg Ford is head of communications for Finance Watch, a public interest advocacy group specialising in financial regulation. A former financial journalist, Greg previously worked at the Financial Times Group’s online service, dealReporter, and at PricewaterhouseCoopers in London.

Articles by Greg Ford

► MiFID 2 - correcting unintended consequences / June 2012

Mark Foster

Mark Foster is Managing Director of SAM, a Director-led, bespoke firm specialising in EU and international advisory services. With two decades experience working in public and private sectors roles, Mark has worked in the European Parliament, the UK Permanent Representation, in consultancy as Partner of a financial services practice and in-house as a government relations expert for a globally active bank. He has advised on UK and EU policy in the fields of financial services, digital & innovation and ESG/circular economy to some of the largest multi-nationals across the globe. Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/78330570 Twitter: @markbxl

Articles by Mark Foster

Doru Frantescu

Doru Peter Frantescu is director of VoteWatch Europe, a small think tank he co-founded in 2009. An EU politics and digital communications expert, he authored numerous reports on decision-making dynamics in the EU institutions, being quoted by the media in over 35 countries.

Articles by Doru Frantescu

Monica Frassoni

Monica Frassoni is an Italian politician and was a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2009 and Co-President of the Green Group from 2002 to 2009. She has been President of the European Alliance to Save Energy since 2010. and is currently serving also as Co-President of the European Green Party.

Articles by Monica Frassoni

► Why Europe needs a binding energy savings target / December 2012

Monica Frassoni

Monica Frassoni is an Italian politician and was a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2009 and Co-President of the Green Group in the EP from 2002 and 2009. She took up the role of President of the European Alliance to Save Energy, a business organization dedicated to promoting energy efficiency across Europe, in late 2010.

Articles by Monica Frassoni

► Why efficiency is key to boosting EU competitiveness and energy independence / February 2015

Joris Frese

Joris Frese is a Doctoral Researcher at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy.

Articles by Joris Frese

► Will Brexit support become extinct? / December 2022

Paal Frisvold

Paal Frisvold is Partner and Managing Director of the Scandinavian Public Affairs company, Geelmuyden Kiese Brussels. Previously, Frisvold was chair of Bellona Europa, a Norwegian environment NGO and worked as secretary to the Standing Committee of the EFTA States at the EFTA Secretariat in Brussels.

Articles by Paal Frisvold

► UK and an EEA+? / November 2016

Christopher Furlow

Christopher Furlow is president of the US cyber consultancy Ridge Global and is a member of US Chamber of Commerce Cyber Leadership Council.

Articles by Christopher Furlow

► Data protection and information security arbitrage / August 2017

Liz Gallagher

Liz Gallagher is a Programme Leader at E3G. Liz lead’s E3G’s Climate Diplomacy programme. E3G’s Climate Diplomacy programme focuses on how to construct high leverage political interventions which can shape an ambitious outcome in 2015 and beyond.

Articles by Liz Gallagher

► Paris is the political moment / November 2015

Anthony L Gardner

Anthony L. Gardner was sworn in as the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union on February 18, 2014. Prior to assuming his current position, Ambassador Gardner was Managing Director for six years at Palamon Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in London and before that served as an Executive Director in the leveraged finance departments of Bank of America and GE Capital and as a Director in the international acquisitions group of GE International. He served as Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council in 1994-95. During that period, he worked closely with the U.S. Mission to the European Union to launch the New Transatlantic Agenda.

Articles by Anthony L Gardner

► A transatlantic perspective on digital innovation / September 2015

Mikaela Gavas

Mikaela Gavas is an ODI Research Associate. She has worked in the EU institutions – Commission and Parliament – as well as the UK’s Department for International Development.

Articles by Mikaela Gavas

Jonathan Gaventa

Jonathan Gaventa is a Director of E3G, leading its work on European energy policy. Current areas of focus include the politics of electricity and gas infrastructure, energy market reform, the governance of energy transitions and the EU Energy Union. He has contributed a number of major research projects including on offshore grids renewables in the North Seas region, European electricity highways and the European Climate Foundation’s Roadmap 2050 project. He also led E3G’s successful efforts to establish interconnection targets in the EU as part of the 2030 climate and energy framework.

Articles by Jonathan Gaventa

Michael Geary

Dr Michael J. Geary is a Global Europe Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. and Assistant Professor of Modern Europe and the European Union at Maastricht University, The Netherlands.

Articles by Michael Geary

► Separation or divorce for the UK and the EU? / September 2013

Gustaaf Geeraerts

Gustaaf GEERAERTS, Ph.D. in Political Science, is currently Distinguished Professor at the School of International Relations and Public Administration (SIRPA), Fudan University, Shanghai. He is Emeritus Professor of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and founding director of the late Brussels Institute of Contemporary China Studies (BICCS), which under his directorship developed into one of the major research institutes on contemporary China in Europe.

Articles by Gustaaf Geeraerts

► Europe’s budding strategic take on EU-China connectivity / December 2019

Pelle Christy Geertsen

Pelle Christy Geertsen is currently Head of Press and Communications and Head of office for a Danish MEP of the Left Group. Throughout the years, however, he has worked, in different roles for four different Members of the European Parliament from as many different political group, representing cross-party views, Right and Left of the political spectrum. In between periods in the European Parliament he also for several years worked in strategic consulting in Brussels, and he has previous done various media work on EU-topic. Having entered Danish EU-politics in 1997, the first EU-campaign he worked on was the 1998 referendum on the Treaty of Amsterdam, and he has followed EU developments closely ever since.

Articles by Pelle Christy Geertsen

► Agenda-setting in the European Parliament - the power of actually turning up / March 2024

Tobias Gehrke

Tobias Gehrke is a Research Fellow in the Europe in the World programme at the Egmont – Royal Institute for International Relations in Brussels. He works on geoeconomics, the trade-security-nexus, economic statecraft, and EU triangular relations with China and the United States.

Articles by Tobias Gehrke

Daniel Gehrt

Daniel Gehrt is a research leader at RAND Europe focusing on innovation, health and science. His research interests are broad, but he has a specific interest in the analysis of policies and dynamics related to eco-innovation. Daniel holds degrees in European studies (B.A. Honours, Trinity College Dublin) and international relations (M.A., King’s College London). Furthermore, he holds a Certificat d’Études Politiques à Titre Étranger from Sciences Po Bordeaux and has done extensive postgraduate coursework on evaluation of public policies at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research and Université Catholique de Louvain.

Articles by Daniel Gehrt

► How a poor indoor environment at home affects children’s health in the EU / November 2019

Quentin Genard

Quentin Genard leads E3G's work on the EU Climate Law and politics. Since joining E3G in 2014, he has worked on adaptation to climate change and the role of cities and regions in the fight against climate change before focusing on the governance of European energy and climate policies. Prior to joining E3G, Quentin was policy advisor for European and International affairs to a Belgian Energy minister. He focused on the launch of the 2014 - 2020 EU structural funds program, EU energy issues, the revision of the trade regime for sensitive goods, public procurements and institutional reforms.

Articles by Quentin Genard

► We’re closer to a deal on the European budget – but will it be a green one? / May 2020

Petar Georgiev

Petar Georgiev is a research assistant at Transport&Environment, currently working in the areas of clean vehicles, electro-mobility, freight and climate. He was previously a trainee at the Unit for Energy Strategies and Policies for Sustainable Energy Development at the Bulgarian Ministry of Energy with a focus on renewable energy sources.

Articles by Petar Georgiev

► Climate in-action: do or do not, there is no try / December 2017

Vlad Gheorghe

Vlad Gheorghe, a lawyer by profession, is a Romanian USR MEP (NOV 2020). Prior to this, he was a member of the USR legal team in the Romanian Parliament, where he opposed the EU blamed amendments to the Criminal and Procedure Code and he also drafted legislative initiatives to stop illegal logging. Vlad is the initiator of the European Green Prosecutor and is also working towards supporting a unified definition of corruption at Union level and other instruments to support the work of the European Public Prosecutor's Office, Europol, Eurojust etc.

Articles by Vlad Gheorghe

► The cost of non-Schengen: 11 years in limbo / October 2022

Elisa Giannelli

Elisa Giannelli is a Senior Policy Advisor on Climate Governance and EU Politics in the Political Economy and Governance team. Elisa contributes to shaping the E3G’s political strategy and engagement process in Europe to deliver transformational political outcomes.

Articles by Elisa Giannelli

► Will the March EU Summit be a springboard for a resilient European Union? / March 2022

Gabrielle Ginér

Gabrielle Ginér joined BT in 1997 and in May 2009 joined the corporate responsibility team where she is now responsible for developing and managing various programmes on environmental sustainability. Gabrielle led the BT team that developed a pioneering methodology to estimate the carbon footprint of the communications services that BT is providing to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Articles by Gabrielle Ginér

► Turning things around with a circular economy / August 2012

Alessandro Giovannini

Alessandro Giovannini has been Associate Research Assistant at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) since April 2011, where he works in the Economic Policy Unit. He holds a BSc in European Economics (2010) from Roma Tor Vergata University and he is currently enrolled in the Double Degree Programme in “International Economic Policy” of Sciences Po and the London School of Economics

Articles by Alessandro Giovannini

► “Advice from a caterpillar”: the conundrum of EU military spending in times of austerity / April 2012

Andrea Giuricin

Andrea Giuricin is adjunct professor in Public Finance and Mobility Management at University Milano Bicocca. He is also a Fellow at the Italian liberal think tank Istituto Bruno Leoni. He has given lectures at the University of Northampton, UK and IBMEC University in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He is a regular commentator for several newspapers and TV on Transport and Telecom/Media.

Articles by Andrea Giuricin

► Competition and the digital market / April 2014

Maeve Glavey

Maeve Glavey is a Researcher at Policy Network. She coordinates a comparative research project on migration, supported by the Barrow Cadbury Fund, exploring the reaction of mainstream political parties, governments in Western Europe and populist movements to current migration trends. Prior to joining Policy Network Maeve worked on a range of migration and human rights issues in the US, Europe and Africa.

Articles by Maeve Glavey

Alex Glennie

Alex Glennie is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research, where her work focuses on migration, integration and the politics of European reform. Alex rejoined IPPR in August 2013, following a year as Programme Manager at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. At ISD she was responsible for leading a number of projects across the areas of security, integration and diversity, including management of the European Policy Planners’ Network on Countering Polarisation and Radicalisation. Prior to this Alex was a research fellow at IPPR, where she worked across a range of international issues between 2006 and 2012.

Articles by Alex Glennie

► The challenge of European free movement in the UK / January 2014

Katharina Gnath

Katharina Gnath is Senior Project Manager at the Bertelsmann Stiftung in Germany. She focuses on European and international economic governance and is currently conducting research on the governance of the euro zone and the political economy of economic reforms in Europe. Katharina Gnath holds a PhD from the Free University and the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. She studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford and European Politics and Governance at the London School of Economics.

Articles by Katharina Gnath

► Time for Germany to shift from foot-dragging to pace-setting / February 2016

Madeleine Goerg

Madeleine Goerg is a programme officer for GMF’s Wider Atlantic Program where she contributes to research and programming on North-South and South-South relations. She leads GMF’s work on West and Southern Africa as well as the Emerging Leaders component of the Atlantic Dialogues. Her research focuses on development cooperation, South-South relations, African regional integration, and emerging powers in Africa.

Articles by Madeleine Goerg

► Tackling Ebola is an imperative for Atlantic partners / November 2014

Gabriel Goodliffe

Gabriel Goodliffe teaches International Relations and International Political Economy at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México in Mexico City. A student of French and European politics, he is the author of the Resurgence of the Radical Right in France: From Boulangisme to the Front National (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and co-editor (with Riccardo Brizzi) of France after 2012 (Berghahn Books, 2015.) He is currently at work on a book which explores the political ramifications of the European debt crisis in France and Germany.

Articles by Gabriel Goodliffe

Matthew Goodwin

Matthew J. Goodwin is an academic, writer and speaker known mainly for his work on British and European politics, extremism, immigration and Euroscepticism. He is currently Professor of Politics at Rutherford College, University of Kent, and Senior Visiting Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House.

Articles by Matthew Goodwin

Bart Gordon

Bart Gordon represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives for 26 years. Bart served as Chairman of the House Committee on Science and Technology from 2007 to 2010. He was also a senior member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and served on the House Committee on Financial Services and the House Committee on Rules, Transatlantic Parliamentary Dialogue, and NATO Parliamentary Assembly. Bart now leads the Trans-Atlantic Business Council as the organization’s US-Director.

Articles by Bart Gordon

► New Year, new priorities for trans-Atlantic relations and trade / January 2022

Alexandra Goritz

Alexandra Goritz is a Policy Advisor at Germanwatch, an independent environment and development organisation. She works in the International Climate Policy Division and focuses on German and European climate foreign policy.

Articles by Alexandra Goritz

► It’s time for Germany and the EU to embed green partnerships in geostrategy / June 2024

Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska

Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska is a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform. Agata works on the EU institutional architecture, EU decision making process, differentiated integration, on Polish European policy and the UK's relationship with the EU. She has participated in numerous collaborative projects funded by i.a. International Visegrad Fund, the European Commission, as well as by Norway grants. Agata is also a core member of the Reshaping European Democracy project – an initiative of Carnegie’s Democracy and Rule of Law Program and Carnegie Europe. Before joining the CER, Agata worked as a senior research fellow at the Polish Institute of International Affairs in Warsaw where she dealt with EU institutional affairs

Articles by Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska

Monique Goyens

As Director General of BEUC, Monique Goyens represents 40 independent national consumer associations in 31 European countries, acting as a strong consumer voice in Brussels, ensuring that consumer’ interests are given weight in the development of policies and raising the visibility and effectiveness of the consumer movement through lobbying EU institutions and media contacts. She sits on the Advisory Group of the European Commission on the Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP). Monique is currently EU co-chair of the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) a network of EU and US consumer organisations (www.tacd.org), and Chair of Finance-Watch (www.finance-watch.org), a public interest association dedicated to making finance work for the good of society. She also represents BEUC at Consumers International, the international consumer organisation (www.consumersinternational.org).

Articles by Monique Goyens

► Why consumers should be at the heart of TTIP / July 2014

Jonathan Grant

Jonathan Grant is founding Director of Different Angles Ltd, a consultancy that focuses on the social impact of universities and research. His main interests are in biomedical and health R&D policy, research impact assessment, the use of research and evidence in policy and decision-taking, and the social purpose of universities in the 21st century. Jonathan has significant international experience, having helped formulate and implement R&D and other strategies in, for example, the UK, Greece, Norway, Qatar, Oman, Abu Dhabi, Australia, Canada and the USA. He is also a Trustee of the Association of Medical Research Charities.

Jonathan used to be as professor of public policy at King’s College London, which he joined in 2014 to set up the Policy Institute at King’s and was its Director until 2017. He stepped down to “hold the pen” on developing King’s strategic vision 2029 and was subsequently appointed Vice President & Vice Principal (Service). Service is King’s award-winning and unique commitment to social responsibility and covers a range of activities including social reform, research impact, service-led learning, volunteering, and environment sustainability. It is one of King’s five strategic priorities and encapsulates King’s commitment to society beyond education and research. Jonathan decided to leave King’s in 2021 to focus his efforts on Different Angles.

Prior to joining King’s, Jonathan was President of RAND Europe between June 2006 and October 2012, where he oversaw the doubling of the organisation’s activity in Europe and the establishment of the Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research, a joint venture with the University of Cambridge. Before joining RAND in 2002, he was Head of Policy at the Wellcome Trust.

Jonathan’s book, The New Power University. The social purpose of higher education in the 21st century, was published by Pearson in March 2021.

Articles by Jonathan Grant

John Grant

Sir John Grant is Executive Vice President of BG Group, a UK-based world leader in natural gas with experience throughout the entire gas chain. He joined BG Group in September 2009, having been president of BHP Billiton Europe since 2007. Before then, he was a member of the UK’s Diplomatic Service, holding posts in Stockholm, Moscow and Brussels, where he was the UK’s Permanent Representative to the European Union from 2003 to 2007.

Articles by John Grant

► MiFID II: Don't let financial regulation kill off energy liberalisation / July 2012

Brigid Grauman

Brussels-based writer Brigid Grauman edited an English-language newsweekly magazine for 17 years (the Brussels-based The Bulletin) and Sabena’s inflight magazine. She has written regularly for the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and websites including Bloomberg and Global News, reporting on subjects as diverse as the Roma, cyber-security, social policy and urban projects, as well as films, architecture, books and the visual arts. After her historical memoir set in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Uncle Otto’s Puppet Theatre, she is concentrating on a book about the Belgian Congo.

Articles by Brigid Grauman

► WW2 and today: migration’s challenges don’t change / January 2020

Noah Greene

Noah Greene currently serves as the Research Assistant at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) for the center’s cross-program initiative on artificial intelligence safety and stability. In this role, Noah works with four programs, along with the vice president and director of studies to ensure that all lines of effort run smoothly. His research agenda includes investigating the military applications of AI in the U.S., Europe, Russia, and China, along with the role of international institutions in emerging technology.

Articles by Noah Greene

► The EU AI Act could hurt military innovation in Europe / January 2024

Sally Greengross

Baroness Sally Greengross OBE is President / Chief Executive of the International Longevity Centre – UK. She has been a crossbench (independent) member of the House of Lords since 2000 and co-chairs five All-Party Parliamentary Groups: Dementia, Corporate Social Responsibility, Intergenerational Futures, Continence Care and Ageing and Older People. She was Director General of Age Concern England from 1987 until 2000.

Articles by Sally Greengross

Justin Greenwood

Justin Greenwood is a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, where he teaches courses on 'Interest Representation in the EU' and 'Business Politics in the EU'. The 5th edition of his book 'Interest Representation in the EU' will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2021. He is a Senior Adviser at Dober Associates. He was an Expert Evaluator for the EU Horizon 2020 research programme, and has undertaken training for the European Commission and the International Labour Organisation. He is currently undertaking a strategic survey of external stakeholders for a major EU business association, and will chair a major practitioner/academic webinar in November 2020 on the reform of the Transparency Register.

Articles by Justin Greenwood

► Trilogue reform: displaced by Covid? / October 2020

Andrew Grice

Andrew Grice was Political Editor of The Independent for 17 years until 2015. He is now the paper's political commentator. He was previously Political Editor at The Sunday Times, where he worked for 10 years. He has covered EU summits since 1987.

Articles by Andrew Grice

Hugo Grondel

Hugo Grondel researches ‘American Competitiveness’ for the American Security Project, a Washington D.C. based think tank. Previously, he worked for the Economic Department of the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Washington D.C., focusing on TTIP and trade policy issues.

Articles by Hugo Grondel

► Why it is time to answer TTIP’s call For action / March 2015

Nick Grono

Nick Grono is CEO of Walk Free, an organisation dedicated to ending modern slavery. Prior to taking that position he was Deputy President and COO of the International Crisis Group; and before that Chief of Staff to the Australian Attorney-General. He has been widely published in the Guardian, International Herald Tribune, Foreign Policy and elsewhere.

Articles by Nick Grono

► Europe should lead the fight against modern slavery / January 2013

Claus Grube

Claus Grube is a senior adviser at Flint Global. A former Danish diplomat he has served as Permanent Representative to the EU, Under-Secretary for European Affairs, Permanent-Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Ambassador to the UK.

Articles by Claus Grube

► Brexit flexibility and creativity - but for everyone / August 2018

Simona Guagliardo

Simona Guagliardo is a Policy Analyst at the European Policy Centre (EPC) within the Social Europe and Well-Being programme. Her work focuses on EU social and health policies and how EU action in these areas can contribute to improving citizens’ well-being. She researches health system transformation, the digitalisation of health and care, and the economy of well-being. Before joining the EPC, she worked as a health management consultant in a private hospital in Italy, focusing on cost-effective healthcare service delivery.

Articles by Simona Guagliardo

Enrique Guerrero

Enrique Guerrero was elected a Member of the European Parliament for Spain in 2009 and he became vice-president of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats Group in January 2012, after being Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Delegation. He is a member of the European Parliament’s Committee on Development and he is also the Standing Rapporteur for Humanitarian Aid. Enrique is also a substitute member in the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and Committee on Human Rights. Among other positions, he became Secretary-General for relations with the Parliament (1993-1996) and Deputy Director of the Prime Minister's Office (2004-2008).

Articles by Enrique Guerrero

Peter Guilford

Peter is co-founder of political advisory agency Shearwater Global, and has worked at the epicentre of European politics and regulation for thirty-six years. He previously set up EU consulting firm GPLUS which merged with Portland in 2019. Prior to this, he worked in the European Commission as Spokesman for Competition Policy and Financial Services, then Trade Policy. He spent four years as an EU negotiator on China’s entry into the World Trade Organisation before becoming Deputy Spokesman of the Commission under ex-President Romano Prodi. He began his career as a journalist for The Times of London.

Articles by Peter Guilford

► 2024: a year where our worst fears may not happen / January 2024

Oscar Guinea

Oscar Guinea is a Senior Economist at ECIPE. Previously, he worked as an Economic Adviser at the Scottish Government in the Office of the Chief Economic Adviser, and as a national expert in the field of energy for the European Commission.

Articles by Oscar Guinea

Peter Gumbel

Peter Gumbel is a Paris-based author and journalist. His book Citizens of Everywhere is published November 2020 by Haus Publishing.

Articles by Peter Gumbel

► The demise of Britain’s soft power / October 2020

Tamira Gunzburg

Tamira Gunzburg is the Director of ONE's Brussels Office. She has been with the ONE Campaign since 2011, and works on a range of policy issues including transparency and accountability, development assistance, agriculture, and health. Before joining ONE, Tamira worked as an advocacy officer for a Belgian development NGO, on natural resource management in Central Africa.

Articles by Tamira Gunzburg

► It's only transparent when you can see it / February 2016

Kathrin Gutmann

Kathrin Gutmann is Coal Policy Coordinator at Climate Action Network Europe, the coalition of NGOs working on climate and energy issues.

Articles by Kathrin Gutmann

► Exposing the role of coal in Europe / September 2015

Jörg Haas

Jörg Haas is a research fellow at the Jacques Delors Institut – Berlin. His work focuses on the EU budget and economic imbalances in the EU, with a special emphasis on the crisis management capabilities of Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union. Prior to his current position, he analysed political risk for an international wind power developer and worked for the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in Geneva.

Articles by Jörg Haas

► Time for Germany to shift from foot-dragging to pace-setting / February 2016

Amelia Hadfield

Professor Amelia Hadfield joined the University of Surrey in January 2019 as Head of the Department of Politics, and Director of the new Centre for Britain and Europe (CBE), a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. In 2021, Amelia was appointed Dean International of the University of Surrey, leading the International Engagement Office in supporting the strategic goals of the university on partnership with other universities and networks world-wide, enhanced cutting-edge research cooperation, as well as staff/student mobility. Previously, Amelia worked as Director of the Centre for European Studies (CEFEUS), a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at Canterbury Christ Church Uni (2013-2018), after positions in Brussels at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB), the Institute for European Studies, and the Unviersity of Kent. Her various blogs on a range of British and European topics are googleable, and also available on the SurreyBlog page: https://blogs.surrey.ac.uk/politics/, the CBE blog page: https://blogs.surrey.ac.uk/centre-britain-and-europe/, the Surrey International Forum, https://blogs.surrey.ac.uk/international-forum/2021/12/29/uk-europe-2021-highlights-and-lowlights/ and on The Conversation.

Articles by Amelia Hadfield

Marco Hafner

Marco Hafner is an Economist at RAND Europe. Marco has particular expertise in Econometrics and since joining RAND he has been working on a range of studies in Employment and Social Policy. Before joining RAND he held research economist positions at the UCL Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM) and the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) Nuremberg, the research think tank of the German Federal Agency of Labour.

Articles by Marco Hafner

Sara Hagemann

Dr Sara Hagemann is Assistant Professor in European Politics, London School of Economics and Political Science. She specialises in questions of transparency and accountability in political systems, policy processes and representation in the European Union, and the link between the EU and national political systems. Follow Sara on Twitter at: @sarahagemann.

Articles by Sara Hagemann

Chris Halburd

Christopher Halburd is a Solicitor and Company Director. He is a member of the advisory board of B Lab Europe and the advisory group of The Purpose of the Corporation Project. He is a former Visiting Lecturer in Corporate Governance at the Brussels School of International Studies and sometimes subject facilitator on the La Trobe University MBA programme. He is the author of the chapter “The Need for a New Paradigm for Corporate Governance” in the book “Transforming Governance: New Values, New Systems in the New Business Environment”.

Articles by Chris Halburd

Tom Hale

Thomas Hale is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University. His research explores how we can manage transnational problems effectively and fairly. He holds a PhD in Politics from Princeton University.

Articles by Tom Hale

► European and global gridlock / July 2013

Jacqueline Hale

Jacqueline Hale is Head of EU Advocacy for Save the Children, leading a team working on protecting children in conflict, child survival and child rights. Prior to joining Save the Children Jacqui worked as an analyst on human rights advocacy and civil society development. She is involved in initiatives to promote women’s leadership and empowerment and has also been active in UK politics. Jacqui is a graduate of Cambridge University where she studied languages and holds an MA with distinction in international relations from Sussex University.

Articles by Jacqueline Hale

► Celebrating a century of protecting children – and looking forward to working with them / December 2019

Sarah Hall

Sarah Hall is 1931 Chair in Geography, College Lecturer in Geography at St John's College, University of Cambridge. She is also Deputy Director of UK in a Changing Europe.

Professor Hall is a public economic geographer whose work focuses on the uneven spatial implications of profound macro economic change including Brexit, the changing economic position of China internationally and the rise of finance led capitalism. She uses her research findings to contribute to academic, public and policy debate.

Supported by funding from the ESRC, the British Academy, The Leverhulme Trust and the Nuffield Foundation, the majority of Professor Hall's research centres on the impacts of financial services in the UK, London's international financial district and its relations with Europe, China and North America. Her research has been covered my leading media outlets including The Financial Times, the BBC, The New York Times, The Daily Telegraph and Wired magazine.

Articles by Sarah Hall

Paul Hamill

Paul Hamill is a leading political & national security policy and communications strategist and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the non-partisan American Security Project. He is also the Principal at Logan International Relations a bespoke public policy and public affairs organization based in Washington DC.

Articles by Paul Hamill

David Hannay

David Hannay, Lord Hannay of Chiswick, was Permanent Representative to the European Communities from 1985 to 1990 and Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1990 to 1995.

Articles by David Hannay

Juho Härkönen

Juho Härkönen is Professor of Sociology, Dean of Postdoctoral Studies and Director of the Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy.

Articles by Juho Härkönen

► Will Brexit support become extinct? / December 2022

Pierre Haroche

Pierre Haroche is Lecturer in International Relations and International Security at Queen Mary University of London and Associate Research Fellow in Defence at the Jacques Delors Institue (Paris). Previously, he worked at the French Ministry of Armed Forces' Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM), and at King’s College London. His research focuses on European integration and European security.

Articles by Pierre Haroche

Pierre Haroche

Articles by Pierre Haroche

► Ukraine: We are at a ‘Demosthenes moment’ in Europe / December 2023

Emma Harte

Emma Harte is an associate analyst at RAND Europe. She has been involved in a number of studies focused on higher education, migration and innovation since joining RAND Europe. Harte holds a M.Sc. in comparative European politics with a focus on EU policy-making and pre-election pledges.

Articles by Emma Harte

► Why access to in-work benefits is a hard nut to crack in the UK’s EU negotiations / January 2016

Katy Hayward

Dr Katy Hayward is a Senior Fellow in ‘The UK in a Changing Europe’ [www.ukandeu.ac.uk], leading a project on the future of Northern Ireland after Brexit, and Professor of Sociology at Queen’s University Belfast.

Articles by Katy Hayward

Joop Hazenberg

Joop Hazenberg is a freelance EU correspondent and through www.euwatcher.eu keeps a close eye on European developments. He is also the founder of The Next Generation for Europe (NGE), a new think-tank in Brussels aiming to connect young Europeans with the EU institutions. NGE will use tools like crowdsourcing, co-creation and datamining to formulate a strategic agenda on the future of Europe – from the perspective of the ‘network generation’.

Articles by Joop Hazenberg

John Healey

John Healey is a Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament for Wentworth and Dearne since 1997. He held the position of Campaigns Director for the TUC from 1994-1997and then a number of cabinet positions such as Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Shadow Health Secretary and Shadow Minister for Housing and Planning.

Articles by John Healey

► The Left can lead the fight for a fairer trade / September 2014

Frank Heemskerk

Frank Heemskerk has been Secretary General of the European Round Table for Industry (ERT) since 1 January 2019. The ERT is a forum of around 60 Chief Executives and Chairs of multinational companies with their roots in Europe. They are united by a vision for a strong, open and competitive Europe, as a driver for inclusive growth and sustainable prosperity.

Between 2003 and 2006, he was a Member of Parliament for the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA). Between 2007 and 2010 Frank Heemskerk was Minister for Foreign Trade, also responsible for Telecoms & IT, SMEs, and the better regulations agenda. Since retiring from national politics, he has held various professional positions. Between 2013 and 2018, he was an Executive Director of the World Bank, where he also chaired the World Bank Group Audit Committee. He was a member of the Executive Board of Royal HaskoningDHV from 2011 until 2013.

Since November 2018 he is a visiting lecturer in Geo-Economics at Leiden University. In June 2020 Frank Heemskerk was elected as Chair of the Board of Amnesty International in the Netherlands.

Articles by Frank Heemskerk

► Back to the future / February 2022

Deirdre Heenan

Deirdre Heenan is a Professor of Social Policy at Ulster University and a senior associate at Nuffield Trust London. She has written extensively about devolution and health policy. She is a former member of the Irish Council of State and a political commentator.

Articles by Deirdre Heenan

► Reflections on the Good Friday Agreement / May 2022

Friedrich Heinemann

Friedrich Heinemann is head of the public finance department at the
Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim as well as
professor of economics at the University of Heidelberg. His research
interests are empirical public finance with a special focus on issues of
European integration and taxation.

Articles by Friedrich Heinemann

► Why a European Asylum Agency should do the job / February 2016

David Held

David Held is Master of University College, Durham and Professor of Politics and International Relations at Durham University. He is also a Director of Polity Press, and General Editor of Global Policy.

Articles by David Held

► European and global gridlock / July 2013

David Henig

David Henig is Director of the UK Trade Policy Project at the think-tank European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE) writing extensively on the trade implications of Brexit and what comes next for UK trade policy. For ECIPE he has also written a series of short papers on globalisation and modern trade, and also regularly discusses broader trade issues such as sustainable trade, the future of the WTO, and EU trade agreements. David serves as Expert Adviser to the UK Trade and Business Commission and House of Lords International Agreements Committee, as well as speaking widely on trade and economic issues in the media and at conferences. Prior to joining ECIPE in March 2018 he worked for the UK Government including on Transatlantic Trade Investment Partnership (TTIP) talks between US and EU, in establishing the Department for International Trade after the referendum, and on issues around inward investments from China.

Articles by David Henig

Matt Henn

Professor Matt Henn is based within the School of Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University, where he is the Research Coordinator for Politics and International Studies, and academic coordinator for the School’s doctoral programme. He has gained significant experience of researching for over 15 years in the area of youth studies, focussing in particular on young people's engagement with the political process, and considering such wider issues as generational social and political inequalities. He teaches in the areas of citizenship and political participation.

Articles by Matt Henn

► UK young voters are not anti EU but just don't understand it / April 2016

Magnus Henrekson

Magnus Henrekson is a professor and president of the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) in Stockholm, Sweden. Until 2009, he held the Jacob Wallenberg Research Chair in the Department of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics. He received his Ph.D. in 1990 from Gothenburg University with his dissertation An Economic Analysis of Swedish Government Expenditure. He has published extensively in scientific journals and contributed several research surveys to Handbooks in the entrepreneurship field.

Articles by Magnus Henrekson

► A reform strategy for an entrepreneurial Europe / December 2019

Costanza Hermanin

Costanza Hermanin is a research fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (European University Institute, Florence), and a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. Her research and teaching focus on the politics and policy of the European Union, especially in the areas of decision-making, equality budgeting, migration, justice and non-discrimination. She has worked in the cabinet of Italy’s Minister of Justice, and held positions within the European Commission, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Open Society Foundations in Brussels. She is a political activist and media commentator as well as the President of EquALL, an NGO promoting inclusiveness and parity in politics.

Articles by Costanza Hermanin

► The Gender Equality Commission? / March 2024

Heiko Hesse

Heiko Hesse is an Economist in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department at the IMF where he works on financial crisis issues and most recently on the European Union financial sector assessment and recently on the Turkish financial sector. He also covers the banking sector in the Romania program. Previous IMF assignments include a number of Middle East countries as well as the Global Financial Stability Report. Prior to the IMF, he worked for the World Bank on the Commission on Growth and Development and also for McKinsey, NERA Economic Consulting as well as PwC. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Oxford and was a Visiting Scholar at Yale University during 2005-2006.

Articles by Heiko Hesse

► State aid and Europe's financial sector / April 2013

Holger Hestermeyer

Dr. Holger Hestermeyer is a Professor of International and EU Law at King's College London. He has served as specialist adviser to the House of Lords EU Select Commitee and the House of Lords EU External Affairs Sub-Committee and is a former Co-Executive Vice President of the Society of International Economic Law. Before joining King's College London he was a Référendaire at the Court of Justice of the EU.

Articles by Holger Hestermeyer

Annette Heuser

Annette Heuser established the Washington DC office of the Bertelsmann Foundation, a private, non-partisan operational foundation that promotes and strengthens trans-Atlantic cooperation, in 2008, and has led it since. She established the Foundation’s Brussels office and served as its executive director from 2000 to 2006. From 1995 to 2000, she was Director Europe/USA at the Bertelsmann Stiftung in Gütersloh, Germany. In this function, she managed European and trans-Atlantic projects, and developed European networking activities.

In the corporate sector, she served as vice president of international relations from 2006-2008 at Bertelsmann AG, Europe’s largest media company. She was editor of the Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration, an annual publication that covers the year’s institutional and political developments in European integration.

Articles by Annette Heuser

► Restoring credibility to sovereign credit ratings / August 2012

Kirstie Hewlett

Dr Kirstie Hewlett is a Research Associate at the Policy Institute, King’s College London. She works across a wide range of social policy areas, with interests in inequalities, social division and equality of opportunity, and the role of values, emotion and identity in policy making and trustworthy governance

Articles by Kirstie Hewlett

► The ripple effects of Brexit / July 2021

John Higgins

John Higgins was appointed Director General of DIGITALEUROPE, the association for the digital technology industry in Europe, in November 2011 following nine years leading its UK member association, Intellect. In 1995 he was appointed CEO of the Rocket Networks, a California based dot.com that provided the world’s first online recording studios. He returned to the UK in 1998 and became Director General of the Computing Services and Software Association, one of Intellect’s predecessors.

Articles by John Higgins

► Europe's erosion of investment in technology / March 2013

Michael Hindley

Michael Hindley was a Labour Member of the European Parliament from 1984 to 1999 where he was Vice-President of the Trade Committee. Since 1999 he acted as a consultant on Europe’s External Relations for the EU Commission and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. From 2008 to 2020 he acted as trade policy adviser to the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). He has been an Associate Professor at Georgetown University, Washington DC on Globalisation and lectures widely on International Affairs, most recently at Mangalore and Manipal Universities, India and by “zoom” with Gottingen University, Germany and York University, Toronto. He tweets @HindleyLancs mhindley1947@gmail.com.

Articles by Michael Hindley

► Don’t roll up the map of Europe / January 2021

Simon Hix

Simon Hix is the Stein Rokkan Chair in Comparative Politics at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy.

Articles by Simon Hix

► Will Brexit support become extinct? / December 2022

Andrew Hobbs

Andrew leads EY's Public Policy team for EMEIA whose role is to help protect EY's reputation and licence to operate while at the same time enabling their client teams. He focuses on public policy and practice in talent, technology, corporate governance and reporting. @AndrewHobbsEY https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewhobbsey/?ppe=1

Articles by Andrew Hobbs

Nicholas Hodac

Nicholas Hodac is the Director General of UNESDA Soft Drinks Europe since October 2019, leading the Brussels-based association representing the European soft drinks industry with 25 national members and 10 corporate members. The areas of priority for Mr. Hodac are environmental sustainability (eg. packaging, water, climate action), food safety, health & nutrition, andcompetitiveness (e.g. taxation), which form the core of UNESDA’s aspirations for 2024-2029.

Articles by Nicholas Hodac

► The European food and drink industry matters to Europe’s competitiveness / September 2024

Dermot Hodson

Dermot Hodson is a professor at Loughborough University London. He is author of Circle of Stars: A History of the EU and the People Who Made It, which is published by Yale University Press.

Articles by Dermot Hodson

► What the Dutch General Election means for the EU / November 2023

James Hoefnagels

James Hoefnagels is from Canada. During his master programme he is specialising in International Affairs and International Political Economy. He will be writing his thesis on improving foresight implementation in the public sector.

Articles by James Hoefnagels

► 5G: The future is digital / May 2018

Corinna Hoerst

Dr. Corinna Hoerst is Deputy Director at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) and President of the Women in International Security, Brussels chapter (WIIS).

Articles by Corinna Hoerst

Isabell Hoffmann

Isabell Hoffmann founded eupinions in 2015 as a project of Bertelsmann Stiftung in cooperation with Catherine E. de Vries of Essex University and Nico Jaspers of Dalia Research. As an expert researcher on democracy and legitimacy in the European Union, she has managed research projects on the role of national parliaments in the EU as well as the origins and impact of populism, nationalism and authoritarianism in Europe. Isabell studied political science and economics at the Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). Before joining Bertelsmann Stiftung in 2008, she worked as a political editor for the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit.

Articles by Isabell Hoffmann

Pär Holmberg

Pär Holmberg is Associate Professor in Economics and has a Ph.D. in Electric Power Engineering. He is a Senior Research Fellow of IFN and an associate of Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG), University of Cambridge, and Program on Energy and Sustainable Development (PESD), Stanford University. Pär Holmberg’s research focuses on electricity markets, especially strategic bidding behaviour in electricity auctions, including arbitrage strategies.

Articles by Pär Holmberg

► Give fully market-based electricity markets a second chance / December 2019

Ingrid Holmes

Ingrid Holmes has led E3G’s programme of work on Low Carbon Finance since January 2010 and is interested in the interface between policy, finance and economics. She led E3G’s highly successful work on the making the case for, and advising on the design and set up, of the UK’s Green Investment Bank. Ingrid’s current work involves leveraging this knowledge into new venues of debate in Europe. This includes making the case for reform of the European Investment Bank and making the case for energy efficiency to form part of a European growth pact.

Articles by Ingrid Holmes

► Time to reconcile the financial and climate crises / October 2013

Stijn Hoorens

Stijn Hoorens is an associate director at RAND Europe and the head of RAND Europe's Brussels Office. Most of his research work has revolved around issues related to illicit markets, security, demographic issues, emerging technologies, employment and skills.

Articles by Stijn Hoorens

David Howarth

David Howarth is Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. He served as a member of the UK House of Commons from 2005-10, speaking for the Liberal Democrats on justice issues.

Articles by David Howarth

Adam Hug

Adam Hug is Director of the London-based international affairs think tank The Foreign Policy Centre.

Articles by Adam Hug

Shann Hulme

Shann Hulme is a research leader at RAND Europe whose research interests include drug policy, illicit markets, pharmaceutical diversion and non-medical use, family and domestic violence, and crime prevention. Before working at RAND Europe, she worked in several research and evaluation roles with the Australian government at a federal and state level. She holds a Ph.D. in criminology and public health from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at the University of New South Wales and a first class Honours degree in criminology and criminal justice, also from the University of New South Wales.

Articles by Shann Hulme

► Domestic violence support staff need more help to tackle challenges of the ‘shadow pandemic’ / March 2021

Stephen Hunsaker

Stephen Hunsaker is an economic policy researcher at UK in a Changing Europe, with a focus on trade, investment, and foreign policy. His academic and professional background also includes data analysis, social policy, and inequality.

Articles by Stephen Hunsaker

► The UK has to navigate an increasingly precarious investment landscape / October 2024

Adela Iacobov

Adela Iacobov is a researcher on the Brexit team at the Institute for Government. She has a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of York, and a MA in European Studies from King’s College London. Adela worked as a research assistant at King’s College London and was an intern at the European Commission’s London Representation (2017) and the Romanian Embassy in London (2016).

Articles by Adela Iacobov

► The UK has a lot to do to be ready for a no deal Brexit / October 2018

Damien Ientile

Damien Ientile is a Director in the French Equity Capital Markets team of Société Générale, based in Paris. He has been involved in many transactions including initial public offerings and equity-linked issuances. Before joining Societe Generale, he was a civil servant at the French Ministry for Economy and Finance. Damien is an alumnus of the French Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA) and Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) and he obtained masters degrees in Economics and Public Affairs from the Paris School of Economics and Sciences Po Paris. In his articles, he only expresses his personal opinions.

Articles by Damien Ientile

► Re-assessing the EU's main economic policies / November 2020

Oliver Ilott

Oliver Ilott is a senior researcher at the Institute for Government.

Articles by Oliver Ilott

► Post-Brexit trade strategy / May 2017

Luukas Ilves

Luukas Ilves is deputy director and senior fellow at the Lisbon Council, a think-tank based in Brussels. He has previously worked as a diplomat and a civil servant for the Estonian government.

Articles by Luukas Ilves

Nick Inman

Nick Inman is a British writer, journalist and photographer who lives and works in southwest France. He is the author of many travel guides to France and Spain, but also of Politipedia (2007), a sideways look at British politics. He has also written about the impact of a Brexit on British expats living in the EU for The Connexion (www.connexionfrance.com). His most recent book is A Guide to Mystical France: Secrets, Mysteries, Sacred Sites

Articles by Nick Inman

► The three-minute guide to the UK-EU referendum / March 2016

Shada Islam

Shada Islam is responsible for policy oversight of Friends of Europe’s initiatives, activities and publications. She has special responsibility for issues related to the Future of Europe, Migration, the Asia Programme and the Development Policy Forum. Shada is Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Natolin) where she teaches Asia-Europe relations and has been selected as a fellow by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). She has been named as one of twenty most influential women in Brussels by Politico.

Articles by Shada Islam

Anton Jaekel

Anton Jaekel is a researcher at E3G and is based in Berlin. As part of E3Gs climate diplomacy & geopolitics team, he works on climate foreign policy with a focus on Germany and the EU.

Articles by Anton Jaekel

► It’s time for Germany and the EU to embed green partnerships in geostrategy / June 2024

Gulnaza Janibekova

Gulnaza Janibekova comes from Turkmenistan. She is currently pursuing her Master of Public Policy with a specialisation in Political Economy. She previously studied Political Science and Human Rights. Having worked with the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin and at the US Embassy in Turkmenistan.

Articles by Gulnaza Janibekova

Barbara Janta

Barbara Janta is a senior analyst at RAND Europe. She has been involved in a number of studies for the European Commission and other European organisations on employment, migration, childcare and family policies. Janta is currently completing a doctoral study at the University of Warwick Institute for Employment Research.

Articles by Barbara Janta

Ajit Jaokar

Ajit Jaokar ‘s work is based on identifying and researching cross-domain technology trends in Telecoms, Mobile and the Internet. Spanning academia and industry – his current research interests is include Policy research, Big Data, Telecoms, Smart Cities, Big Data Analytics and IOT. Ajit conducts a course at Oxford University on Big Data and Telecoms and also teaches at City Sciences(Technical University of Madrid) on Big Data Algorithms for future Cities / Internet of Things. In 2009, Ajit was nominated to the World Economic Forum’s ‘Future of the Internet’ council. In 2011, he was nominated to the World Smart Capital program (Amsterdam). Ajit moderates/chairs Oxford University’s Next generation mobile applications panel and has also been an advisor to the European Internet Foundation on Technology and Policy issues since 2009 and is the co-author of ‘The Digital World in 2030′.

Articles by Ajit Jaokar

Nadege Jassaud

Nadege Jassaud is an Economist in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department (Financial Crisis Division) at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). She was recently involved in the bank restructuring of the Greek program, as part of the Troika in 2011-2012. She has also co-authored an IMF Staff Discussion Note on bail-in and contributed to an IMF board paper on macroprudential policies. Prior to the IMF, she was Deputy Head of the Financial Stability Division at Bank of France. Nadege obtained her master in political finance from Sciences Politics, and in Financial markets from Louvain La Neuve. She is a lecturer at the University Paris Dauphine.

Articles by Nadege Jassaud

► State aid and Europe's financial sector / April 2013

Tom Jess

Tom Jess is a policy advisor at E3G working on the sustainable finance programme with a focus on energy efficiency and the Capital Markets Union initiative. His research concentrates on how public and private finance sectors can work to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy in Europe.

Articles by Tom Jess

► Defining "unsustainable" economic activities / May 2019

Tim Johnson

Tim Johnson has worked with the Aviation Environment Federation for over twenty years and became Director in 1997. Tim provides the AEF’s representation at the International Civil Aviation Organisation as well as on the UK Department for Transport’s External Advisory Group, and other stakeholder advisory roles associated with NATS, the Sustainable Aviation Initiative, the European Commission, and the academic partnership, OMEGA.

Articles by Tim Johnson

► Why Europe must stick to its guns on aviation ETS / July 2012

Erik Jones

Erik Jones is Director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute and Nonresident Scholar at Carnegie Europe.

Articles by Erik Jones

Jonathan Jones

Sir Jonathan Jones is a senior consultant in public and constitutional law at Linklaters LLP. He is also a visiting professor at Durham Law School and a bencher of Middle Temple. He was previously a government lawyer for over 30 years, holding senior legal posts in HM Treasury, the Attorney General’s Office and the Home Office. From 2014-2020 Jonathan was Treasury Solicitor, HM Procurator General and Permanent Secretary of the Government Legal Department – the most senior official in the UK government. He was appointed honorary Queen’s (now King’s) Counsel in 2019 and knighted (KCB) for public service in 2020.

Articles by Jonathan Jones

► What's so bad about the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill? Here are four things / January 2023

Raquel Jorge

Raquel Jorge works as Policy Analyst at Elcano Royal Institute think tank and is responsible for the international affairs and technology policy agenda. She has worked as an independent expert consultant for the European Commission, has led the Working Group on EU’s tech foreign policy at the European Cyber Agora, and supported digital public policy projects at the Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. She also worked on a technical assistance contract in the planning of the National Strategic on Technology and Global Order at Spain’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and at a UK-based consultancy firm working in projects for governments and international institutions.

As a former Fulbright Fellow granted by the United States-Spain Fulbright Commission, she holds a Master’s in Security Policy, specialized in technology policy, from the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University (Washington, DC).

She is part of the Younger Generation Leaders Network at the European Leadership Network, whose main members include former Prime Ministers, Ministers, and representatives from the EU. She has been named as one of Emerging Young Leaders across Europe in the “35 Under 35” List from Santander Bank-CIDOB.

Articles by Raquel Jorge

► An opportunity for the EU’s global voice: international technology governance and AI / November 2023

Piotr Maciej Kaczynski

Piotr Maciej Kaczynski is a research fellow at the Centre for European Studies (CEPS) in Brussels

Articles by Piotr Maciej Kaczynski

► Putting Europeans back in the Indo-Pacific zone / January 2012

John Kampfner

John Kampfner launched the Creative Industries Federation in 2014. He is also Chair of the Clore Social Leadership Programme and was the founding Chair of Turner Contemporary, one of the UK's most successful cultural institutions. As editor of the New Statesman from 2005-2008, he took the magazine to a 30-year circulation high. In 2002, he won two Foreign Press Association awards for a two-part BBC film on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He has been named one of the 1,000 most influential Londoners by the London Evening Standard.

Articles by John Kampfner

► 'Brand Britain' and the sidelining of the creative industries in the Brexit negotiations / February 2018

Hussein Kassim

Hussein Kassim is Professor of Politics at the University of East Anglia, Principal Investigator on the project 'Living with the Neighbours: the UK, the EU and wider Europe' and Senior Fellow at UK in a Changing Europe. He has published widely on the EU institutions and policy, the interaction between the EU and its member states, and UK-EU relations. He was a ‘UK in a Changing Europe’ Senior Fellow 2016-17, and 2019-22, and ‘UK in a Changing Europe’ grant holder on ‘Negotiating Brexit’ 2017-19 with Professor Simon Usherwood. (@HusseinHKassim)

Articles by Hussein Kassim

► What strategy for the UK’s bilaterals with EU member states? / April 2023

Alexander Katsaitis

Alexander Katsaitis is Fellow in Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research focuses on the interaction between policymakers and organized interests. Its central aim is to improve government policy making through evidence-based recommendations in the areas of governance, transparency, and accountability. His work appears in journals such as JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Public Administration, Jounral of European Integration, Journal of Public Affairs, Politics & Governance, Journal of European Public Policy. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9427-6328

Articles by Alexander Katsaitis

► Hedging bets: UK business lobbying in Brussels post-Brexit / July 2022

Sunder Katwala

Sunder Katwala is the director of British Future, a non-partisan thinktank and charity, and the author of the book 'How to be a Patriot'. He has previously worked as a journalist and was also general secretary of the Fabian Society thinktank from 2003 to 2011. Prior to that he was a leader writer and internet editor at the Observer, a research director of the Foreign Policy Centre and commissioning editor for politics and economics at the publisher Macmillan.

Articles by Sunder Katwala

Jennifer Kavanagh

Jennifer Kavanagh is a political scientist at the RAND Corporation and associate director of the Strategy, Doctrine, and Resources Programme in the RAND Arroyo Centre. Her research focuses on U.S. political institutions and public opinion and their implications for U.S. foreign and domestic policy.

Articles by Jennifer Kavanagh

R. Daniel Kelemen

R. Daniel Kelemen is Professor of Political Science and Law and Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Politics at Rutgers University. Prior to Rutgers, Kelemen was Fellow in Politics at Lincoln College, University of Oxford, and held visiting fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, and the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels.

Articles by R. Daniel Kelemen

► Europe's quiet crisis / April 2021

Vicky Kell

Dr Vicky Kell is the Trade Director at Invest Northern Ireland.

Articles by Vicky Kell

► The impact on small firms of a EU-US trade and investment deal / March 2014

Peter Kellner

Peter Kellner is visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe. He was Chairman of the pioneering online survey research company, YouGov, from 2001-7 and President from 2007-16. He was named as Chairman of the Year in the 2006 Quoted Companies Alliance awards. He has written for a variety of newspapers and magazines, including the Times, Sunday Times, Independent, Observer, Evening Standard, New Statesman and Prospect. He has also been a regular contributor to Newsnight (BBC2), A Week in Politics (Channel Four), Analysis (Radio Four) and election night results programmes on television and radio.

Articles by Peter Kellner

Ronja Kempin

Dr. Ronja Kempin is Senior Fellow of the EU/Europe Research Group at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, SWP) in Berlin. The SWP advises the Bundestag and the German government as well as the business community on foreign policy issues. From 2010 to 2014 she was head of the EU External Relations Research Group at the SWP. In 2014 she worked as an advisor and consultant in the policy department (Division 202, CSDP) of the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. Her research focuses on European security and defence policy issues, in particular the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) as well as France and Franco-German relations.

Articles by Ronja Kempin

► Ukraine: We are at a ‘Demosthenes moment’ in Europe / December 2023

Daniel Keohane

Daniel Keohane is head of strategic affairs at FRIDE which has recently published Challenges for European Foreign Policy in 2012: What kind of geo-economic Europe?. Previously he was senior research fellow at the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) in Paris; senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform (CER) in London; and a research associate at the Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS), National Defense University, in Washington DC.

Articles by Daniel Keohane

► Is the EU trading foreign policy for commercial gain? / March 2012

Philippe Kern

Philippe Kern is founder and managing director of KEA European Affairs, a research centre specialised in advising territories and organisations on culture policy since 1999. He has authored numerous studies for European institutions on culture, copyright, culture and creative industries as well as audio-visual policies. KEA blog : www.keanet.eu

Articles by Philippe Kern

► The case for a cultural European Union / February 2020

Olga Kikou

Olga Kikou is Head of Compassion in World Farming EU – a non-governmental organisation that campaigns to improve EU laws and policies for farm animals.

Articles by Olga Kikou

► It’s official: EU Commission admits animal welfare on EU farms is “‘sub optimal” / October 2022

Julian King

Sir Julian King is a Senior Advisor at Flint Global, Fellow of RUSI and the Oxford Internet Institute. He was the last British European Commissioner, serving as EU Commissioner for the Security Union from 2016-2019, with responsibility for counter terrorism, cyber security, tackling hybrid threats, disinformation, and securing critical digital infrastructure. He joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in 1985. He has held various positions, including: UK Ambassador to France (2016); Director General Economic & Consular (2014); DG of the Northern Ireland Office London and Belfast (2011); UK Ambassador to Ireland (2009); EU Commission Chef de Cabinet to Commissioner for Trade (2008); UK Representative on EU Political and Security Committee, (2004).

Articles by Julian King

► Building EU-UK security cooperation / July 2021

Julian King

Julian King was the last UK EU Commissioner (2016-19), responsible for the Security Union in Jean-Claude Juncker’s Commission.

Articles by Julian King

► The case for an ambitious UK/EU security cooperation pact / February 2024

Anna-Lena Kirch

Anna-Lena Kirch has worked as a research assistant in the Europe Program of the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Berlin, Brussels and Washington, D.C. She conducts research on EU governance, European Neighborhood Policy, Central Europe and German foreign policy. Next to her work at GMF she does a PhD on subregional cooperation in the EU at Justus Liebig University in Gießen. Prior to GMF, Kirch worked at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs.

Articles by Anna-Lena Kirch

Charlotte Kleberg

Charlotte Kleberg is a research assistant at RAND Europe.

Articles by Charlotte Kleberg

► As Finland joins NATO, Sweden's accession remains uncertain / April 2023

Sean Klein

Sean Klein is the former BBC Brussels Bureau Chief and a highly regarded journalist with more than 20 years experience working in Europe and around the world. He now runs SeanKlein Media Limited, providing clients across the EU and beyond with a broad range of media services. He writes blogs on European issues; and is also researching a book on the flight of ethnic Germans from the Balkans in the 1940s.

Articles by Sean Klein

► Migration, then and now: a personal response to today’s crisis / October 2015

Alissa M. Kleinnijenhuis

Alissa M. Kleinnijenhuis is a Non-resident Fellow at Bruegel. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University and is affiliated with the Imperial College Business School Finance Department of Imperial College London. Dr. Kleinnijenhuis is Research Associate at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) at the Oxford Martin School of the University of Oxford, a RPN Member of Sustainable Finance at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and a Faculty Fellow of the Cornell Atkinson Centre for Sustainability. She taught the first course at Stanford University on Climate Finance. In Fall 2023 and Spring 2024, she teaches the inaugural Climate Finance course at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, at Cornell University. She founded and co-hosts a novel podcast series, VoxTalks Climate Finance, as part of the highly regarded VoxTalks of CEPR, which seeks to play a formative role in covering the debates at the frontiers of the field that will shape the future of finance when it comes to climate. Since 2024, she has been a member (part of the steering committee) of a new CEPR program area on Climate and the Environment. She co-organizes Young Scholars’ Webinar on Climate Finance and Economics (supported by the E-Axis Forum).

Articles by Alissa M. Kleinnijenhuis

► The economic case for north-south climate finance at scale / June 2024

Angela Knight

Angela Knight is currently the Chief Executive of the British Bankers Association. She is also a non-executive director on the boards of Brewin Dolphin plc, Tullett Prebon plc and a board member of the Financial Skills Partnership. From 1987 to 1992 she was Councillor and Chief Whip on Sheffield City Council. She entered Parliament in 1992 as MP for Erewash and was Economic Secretary to the Treasury between 1995 and 1997, when she lost her seat at the General Election. She was the Chief Executive of the Association of Private Client Investment Managers and Stockbrokers from September 1997 to December 2006.

Articles by Angela Knight

► Vickered and Volckered / April 2012

Edward Knudsen

Edward Knudsen is a doctoral researcher in international relations at the University of Oxford and Research Associate at the Hertie School in Berlin. His academic work focuses on the political economy and economic history of the US and Europe in the 20^th century. In the policy world, he researches contemporary transatlantic relations at the Jacques Delors Centre in Berlin and previously worked for the “US and the Americas Programme” at Chatham House. He holds a Master’s in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a bachelor’s degree with majors in history and economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Articles by Edward Knudsen

► The Russia-Ukraine Trilemma / June 2022

Svitlana Kobzar

Svitlana Kobzar is a policy analyst at RAND Europe and an assistant professor at Vesalius College, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Since 2011, Kobzar has also served as a research fellow at the University of Cambridge. Kobzar's research has focused on governance in the post-Communist region, especially Ukraine, the Eastern Partnership as well as EU's border management, education and migration policies. At RAND, Kobzar has worked for a range of clients, including the European Commission, the Council, the Parliament, the World Bank, the UK Ministry of Justice, the UK Home Office as well as Frontex. Prior to joining RAND, Kobzar worked with think tanks in Italy, Germany and Czech Republic.

Articles by Svitlana Kobzar

► Happy 80th Birthday, ‘GDP’ - is it not time to retire? / February 2014

Silvana Koch-Mehrin

Silvana Koch-Mehrin is the Founder of the Women in Parliaments Global Forum (WIP), the global network of female Parliamentarians. The mission of WIP is to advance society by unleashing the potential of women for leadership. Silvana has been a Member of the European Parliament 2004-2014. From 2009 to 2011 she was Vice-President of the European Parliament, and from 2004 to 2009 she was First Vice-President of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE).

Articles by Silvana Koch-Mehrin

Jonny Koerner

Jonny Koerner holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Studies form the University of British Columbia and a Masters in Political Science from the University of Amsterdam. Jonny has previously worked as a development officer for a Dutch NGO that strengthens healthcare systems in developing countries. He joined Transparency International in 2011 as a fundraiser and has worked for the TI EU Office in various capacities, including communications and project management.

Articles by Jonny Koerner

Manuel Kohnstamm

Manuel Kohnstamm is Senior Vice President and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer of Liberty Global. In his current position, he is an executive officer of Liberty Global and sits on the Company’s Executive Management and Regulatory Committees.. He is also a member of the Supervisory Board of Unitymedia Kabel BW GmbH, a Liberty Global subsidiary in Germany. He is President of Cable Europe, the European Cable Communications Association, and a member of the Board of Directors of Liberty Global’s subsidiary Telenet Group Holding NV, a Belgian public limited liability company.

Articles by Manuel Kohnstamm

► The value of content / June 2016

Hans Korteweg

Hans Korteweg has been COGEN Europe’s Managing Director since May 2017. Most recently, Mr. Korteweg was Director of Communications and Government Affairs, EMEA Region, for the Westinghouse Electric Company.

Articles by Hans Korteweg

► No decarbonisation without an energy system based on energy efficiency / July 2018

Neelie Kroes

Neelie Kroes is a Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda

Articles by Neelie Kroes

Gunvor Kronman

Gunvor Kronman has extensive experience of leadership and international assignments. She is currently the CEO of Hanaholmen, the Swedish-Finnish cooperation center, and has held central positions nationally and internationally across all sectors; private, public and third sector alike. Gunvor is the Chair of the Board of Plan International and a member of RAND Europe Council of Advisors.

Articles by Gunvor Kronman

Kristy Kruithof

Kristy Kruithof is a former analyst at RAND Europe who focused on research related to home affairs and social policies across Europe.

Articles by Kristy Kruithof

Hugo Kruyne

Hugo Kruyne is the Vice-President and COO of Select Vantage Inc (SVI) and True North Vantage Inc. Before joining SVI he began his career as a day-trader, quickly moving on to management of a successful trading floor before taking on a variety of roles covering compliance surveillance, product development, quality assurance, business intelligence and operations.

Articles by Hugo Kruyne

► A decade on, there are four things AI regulators can learn from the crash (hint: it involves ethics) / July 2018

Sanjeev Kumar

Sanjeev Kumar is a climate and energy political thought leader, campaigner, communications expert and public speaker. He is the Head of Policy at the European Geothermal Energy Council (EGEC).

Articles by Sanjeev Kumar

Hans Kundnani

Hans Kundnani is Senior Research Fellow in the Europe Programme at Chatham House. Previously he was Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and Research Director at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of The Paradox of German Power (2014), which has been translated into German, Italian, Korean and Spanish.

Articles by Hans Kundnani

Matthias Kurth

Matthias Kurth joined Cable Europe in October 2012 as Executive Chairman and sits on its Executive Committee which has oversight of the cable industry’s main representational duties in Europe. Previously he held the position of President of the German Federal Network Agency, Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA), the authority for telecommunications, postal, energy and railway markets in Germany, including frequency management and digital signature. Matthias also served as Chairman of the European Regulators Group (ERG) in 2009 to increase regulatory cooperation at the EU level. He served as State Secretary in the Hesse Ministry of Economics, Transport, Technology and European Affairs between 1994 and 1999.

Articles by Matthias Kurth

► The case for investing in Europe’s connectivity / July 2013

Tsvetelina Kuzmanova

Tsvetelina Kuzmanova is a Senior Policy Advisor for Sustainable Finance at E3G (Third Generation Environmentalism) – a climate change think tank, working on accelerating a global transition to a climate-safe world. Tsvetelina’s role in the E3G Brussels team focuses on legislative reforms at the EU level and across EU member states. As part of the sustainable finance team, she engages with EU institutions and stakeholders to achieve policy reforms for increased public and private sector investments for a climate-neutral economy. Her work also helps divert capital flows towards assets that contribute to sustainable development. Prior to joining E3G, Tsvetelina spent three years working on EU legislation in sustainable finance and financial innovation at the Bulgarian non-banking financial regulator. She has also worked on international development projects in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, specialising in renewable energy and infrastructure.

Articles by Tsvetelina Kuzmanova

Jacques Lafitte

Jacques Lafitte is the founder and CEO of Avisa Brussels, a subsidiary of the wider Avisa group which offers a range of services, including traditional PA/PR, online advocacy, cybersecurity, forensic and premium events organization such as FIC. Prior to Avisa, Jacques occupied several positions in German and French ministries, and went on to create the euro as an advisor to the responsible EU Commissioner, 1995 to 1999. He spent a couple years at Microsoft, as chief lobbyist for Europe. Off hours Jacques is a serial entrepreneur in innovation-driven businesses, especially immuno-oncology, vaccines and Blockchain. He is also a passionate kitesurfer.

Articles by Jacques Lafitte

► The Brexit knife-edge / December 2020

Giulia Laganà

Giulia Laganà is the Senior Policy Analyst on EU Migration and Asylum Policies for the Open Society European Policy Institute and leads its analysis and advocacy on EU policies on migration and asylum. Previously, she was a senior adviser on migration, asylum, EU, and international affairs to the President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies in Rome. and spent four years with the United Nations, working for UNHCR and UNDP in Italy and Brussels, respectively. Her work experience also includes stints with NGOs such as SOLIDAR and with the European Commission.

Articles by Giulia Laganà

Eleftheria lakovidou

Eleftheria Iakovidou is a research assistant at RAND Europe working in the areas of education, child and family policy. She has an M.Sc. in special and inclusive education from the University of Bristol and a B.Sc. in social and education policy from the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Peloponnese in Greece. While an M.Sc. student, she conducted various quantitative and qualitative research projects in the field of inclusive education, with particular interest in the education of migrant, refugee and asylum seeking children. Her M.Sc. dissertation focused on the education of refugee children in Greece and the role of art interventions in the creation of inclusive, formal and informal educational environments.

Articles by Eleftheria lakovidou

► Celebrating children’s rights is important, but more progress is needed / November 2019

Philipp Lamprecht

Philipp Lamprecht is a Senior Economist at ECIPE. He previously worked as an External Consultant to the OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate and has worked as a Consultant of the London School of Economics (LSE) on a variety of projects, including the Trade Sustainability Impact Assessment of the EU-Japan FTA negotiations for the European Commission (DG Trade) and a EuropeAid project related to the EU-CARIFORUM Economic Partnership Agreement. Before that, he has worked on a number of consultancy projects in the field of trade for the International Trade Policy Unit of the LSE.

Articles by Philipp Lamprecht

Karel Lannoo

Karel Lannoo has been active in active in European public policy for over 35 years. Specialised in financial regulation, governance and single market issues, his recent publications discuss EU health care sector policy, anti-money laundering, Russia financial sanctions, crypto-currency regulation and Europe’s geopolitical ambitions.

Articles by Karel Lannoo

Roslyn Layton

Roslyn Layton, PhD Fellow, studied Internet Policy at the Center for Communication, Media and Information Technologies at Aalborg University in Copenhagen. She is the author of Next Generation Telecom Policy and the Digital Single Market.

Articles by Roslyn Layton

► Still regulating from the analogue era / June 2016

Kevin Le Merle

Kevin Le Merle is a policy analyst and researcher on questions of global distributive climate justice. In his current position, he spearheads the Foundation for European Progressive Studies’ work on climate, environment, and energy. He has authored research on the European Green Deal, with a focus on its environmental and social justice dimensions.

Articles by Kevin Le Merle

► CBAM – another EU acronym to rule them all? / October 2023

Hosuk Lee-Makiyama

Hosuk Lee-Makiyama is the director of European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE) and a leading author on trade diplomacy, EU-Far East relations and the digital economy. He was named “One of the 20 most influential people for open internet” by the readers of the Guardian UK in 2012. He was the first author to argue for a WTO case on internet censorship in China. Prior to joining ECIPE, he was an independent counsel on regulatory affairs, competition and communication, Senior Advisor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, representative of Sweden and the EU member states towards the WTO and the UN, including WIPO and UNECE. Lee-Makiyama is also a Fellow at the department International Relations at the London School of Economics, and currently shares his time between LSE and ECIPE.

Articles by Hosuk Lee-Makiyama

► 5G: what we talk about when we talk about trust - the EU risk assessment process / November 2019

Kevin Lees

Kevin A. Lees is an attorney in Washington, D.C. and editor of the foreign policy blog Suffragio.org.

Articles by Kevin Lees

► Separation or divorce for the UK and the EU? / September 2013

Christian Leffler

Born in Göteborg, Sweden, in 1955, educated at LSE and the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Christian Leffler joined the Swedish Foreign Service in 1980. Participating in the Swedish accession negotiations to the EU opened the door to joining the European Commission in 1996. After various posts in Cabinets and external relations services, he joined the EEAS, EU External Action Service, at its establishment in 2011 as the Managing director for the Americas. He became Deputy Secretary General for Economic and Global Issues in 2015 and served in this position until his retirement in March 2020.

Articles by Christian Leffler

► Brexit and the Swiss Model / February 2023

Johanna Lehne

Johanna Lehne is a policy advisor working on the clean economy programme with a focus on competition and industrial policy. Before joining E3G in August 2019, Johanna was a research associate in the Energy, Environment and Resources Department at Chatham House. Her research, while at Chatham House, covered industrial decarbonisation, the circular economy, low-carbon innovation in the built environment, chokepoints in global food trade, natural resource governance in China and energy for displaced populations.

Articles by Johanna Lehne

Michael Leigh

Sir Michael Leigh is a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and a former director-general for enlargement in the European Commission. He holds a PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has published widely on current challenges facing the European Union and the United States.

Articles by Michael Leigh

► Fiddling while Rome burns? / October 2015

Paul Leonard

Paul Leonard started his career in 1984 as an entomologist with Dow and moved to American Cyanamid in 1994 as Technical Manager for Europe Middle East and Africa. In 2000 he joined BASF´s global registration department and in 2008 joined its Government Relations organisation, where he is currently responsible for corporate innovation and technology policy. He currently serves on the boards of Rothamsted Research and the European Risk Forum (ERF). In 2013 he was also appointed to chair the ERF´s task force which promotes the Innovation Principle as a new and positive contribution to EU policy making in which capacity he has written this article.

Articles by Paul Leonard

► The Innovation Principle / January 2016

Dick Leonard

Dick Leonard is a journalist, author and former Labour MP. He worked in Brussels for 30 years, writing, primarily, about the European Union, for leading newspapers around the world. A former Assistant Editor of The Economist, he is the author of the best-selling Economist Guide to the European Union, and is the author or part-author of over 20 other books, includingmost recently, A History of British Prime Ministers: Walpole to Cameron.

Articles by Dick Leonard

► Lessons from the 1975 EU referendum / May 2016

Mark Leonard

Mark Leonard is co-founder and director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, the first pan-European think tank. His topics of focus include geopolitics and geoeconomics, China, and EU institutions. He writes a syndicated column on global affairs for Project Syndicate. Previously he worked as director of foreign policy at the Centre for European Reform and as director of the Foreign Policy Centre, a think tank he founded at the age of 24 under the patronage of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. He was Chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Geoeconomics until 2016. As well as writing and commenting frequently in the media on global affairs, Leonard is author of two best-selling books. His first book, Why Europe will run the 21st Century, was published in 2005 and translated into 19 languages. Leonard's second book, What does China think? was published in 2008 and translated into 15 languages. He has published an edited volume on Connectivity Wars and is working on a forthcoming book on the same topic.

Articles by Mark Leonard

► A player not a pawn: how Europe can regain strategic sovereignty / December 2019

Elsa Leromain

Elsa Leromain is a Research Economist at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and researcher with Th. She holds a PhD from Paris School of Economics. Her main research interests are in international trade, political economy, and economic geography.

Articles by Elsa Leromain

► The Brexit vote, inflation and UK living standards / November 2017

Ian Lesser

Ian Lesser is Senior Director for Foreign and Security Policy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, managing activity in these areas across GMF. He also serves as Executive Director of the Transatlantic Center, GMF’s Brussels Office, and leads GMF work on the Mediterranean, Turkey, and the Southern Atlantic. Prior to joining GMF, Dr. Lesser was Vice President and Director of Studies at the Pacific Council on International Policy (the western partner of the Council on Foreign Relations). He came to the Pacific Council from RAND, where he spent over a decade as a senior analyst and research manager specializing in strategic studies. From 1994-1995, he was a member of the Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State, responsible for Turkey, Southern Europe, North Africa, and the multilateral track of the Middle East peace process. A frequent commentator for international media, he has written extensively on international policy issues. His books and reports include Morocco’s New Geopolitics: A Wider Atlantic Perspective (2012); Beyond Suspicion: Rethinking US-Turkish Relations (2007); Security and Strategy in the Eastern Mediterranean (2006); Turkish Foreign Policy in an Age of Uncertainty (2003); Greece’s New Geopolitics (2001); and Countering the New Terrorism (1999).

Articles by Ian Lesser

Kate Levick

Kate Levick leads E3G’s activities on Sustainable Finance, working with a wide range of public and private finance sector stakeholders to support ambitions finance and climate policy outcomes. Prior to joining E3G Kate was the Global Director for Policy Engagement at CDP, a not-for-profit that operates a global disclosure system for institutional investors, companies, cities, states and regions to manage their environmental impacts. She previously worked for the UK government’s Office of Climate Change helping to develop international and domestic climate policy, following several years working for BP Plc in a variety of commercial and environmental roles. Kate is a member of the British Standards Institute Steering Advisory Group for Sustainable Finance, the Climate Champions’ Financial Sector Expert Group and the UK’s Green Technical Advisory Group. She represents E3G in the Innovation Working Group of the UK’s Climate Financial Risk Forum.

Articles by Kate Levick

Simon Lewis

Simon Lewis was appointed Chief Executive of the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) in October 2010 and is also Chief Executive Officer of the Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA). AFME is the trade body which represents the pan-European investment banking industry. Previously Simon was Director of Communications and the Prime Minister’s Official Spokesman at 10 Downing Street. He has held a number of senior corporate roles including Director of Corporate Affairs at Vodafone, Centrica and NatWest. Simon was appointed as the first Communications Secretary to The Queen in 1998.

Articles by Simon Lewis

► 2014: Time for clarity in bank regulation / January 2014

Catherine Lichten

Catherine Lichten is an analyst at RAND Europe working primarily in areas related to science and health. Her RAND research projects have examined a range of topics in the area of biomedical research funding and the interface of science and society.

Articles by Catherine Lichten

► Europe's fight against antimicrobial resistance / November 2016

Darren Litter

Darren Litter is a PhD Candidate at Queen’s University Belfast studying the extent to which European integration and British-Irish intergovernmentalism are ‘inextricably intertwined’. He holds a First-Class Honours MEconSc in European Public Affairs and Law from University College Dublin. He is a Student Affiliate of UCD’s Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in the New Political Economy of Europe; QUB's Institute of Irish Studies; and a Washington Ireland Programme Forum Fellow.

Articles by Darren Litter

► The irony of Brexit Britain is that all roads lead back to Europe / May 2021

Lewis Lloyd

Lewis Lloyd is co-author of the Institute for Government’s recent paper Who's afraid of the ECJ? Charting the UK's relationship with the European Court

Articles by Lewis Lloyd

► Who's afraid of the European Court of Justice? / December 2017

Tobias Lock

Dr Tobias Lock is a Senior Lecturer in EU Law at the University of Edinburgh and co-director of its Europa Institute.

Articles by Tobias Lock

► Avoiding a second cliff-edge / October 2018

Anthony Lockett

From January - June 2013, Tony Lockett was European Union Fellow at the University of Washington, where he worked with the Jackson School of International Studies and the Department of Communication. The views expressed here are personal and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of his employer, the European Commission.

Articles by Anthony Lockett

► Will digital media transform the European Union? / July 2013

Martin Lodge

Martin Lodge is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Director of the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation at the London School of Economics. His research interests are in executive politics and regulation.

Articles by Martin Lodge

Cillian Lohan

Cillian Lohan is Chair of the EESC's EU-UK Follow-up Committee and member of the EU DAG under the TCA. He has been rapporteur for several EESC opinions, including the ongoing own-initiative opinion on EU-UK Youth Engagement.

Articles by Cillian Lohan

► Paving the way for UK-EU youth engagement / November 2023

Nick Lokker

Nicholas Lokker is a Research Associate at the Center for a New American Security. His research focuses on European integration, EU-Russia relations, and transatlantic security policy.

Articles by Nick Lokker

Adrian Low

Adrian Low is Emeritus Professor of Computer Education at Staffordshire University and is Anglican Chaplain to the Costa del Sol (West) in Spain. His ‘parish’ includes 80,000 UK expats who have lived on the Costa for years but now many who retired here, have health and frailty issues, have lost their spouse, and are unable, financially and practically, ever to be able to move back to the UK. Some, at an advanced age, fear losing all residency, medical, ownership, travelling and financial rights.

Articles by Adrian Low

► Brexit - not the will of the people, nor is it likely to become so / October 2016

Sam Lowe

Sam Lowe is a director at Flint Global, where he leads their trade policy work. He is also a visiting senior research fellow at The Policy Institute, Kings College London and the author of the weekly trade newsletter, Most Favoured Nation. He is writing in a personal capacity.

Articles by Sam Lowe

Hugo Lucas

Hugo Lucas is Director of Strategy at Our Future, Our Choice.

Articles by Hugo Lucas

► Brexit will hit young people - but they're fighting back / October 2018

Luke Lythgoe

Luke Lythgoe is a journalist at InFacts, a journalistic enterprise making the fact-based case against Brexit.

Articles by Luke Lythgoe

► Hardball on the Brexit bill / November 2017

Nick Mabey

Nick Mabey is chief executive of the sustainable development NGO E3G (Third Generation Environmentalism). He was previously a senior adviser in the UK prime minister’s strategy unit, leading work on energy, fisheries, unstable states and organised crime, and head of economics and development at WWF-UK.

Articles by Nick Mabey

Corrado Macchiarelli

Corrado Macchiarelli is Principal Economist at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research's Macroeconomic Modelling and Forecasting team, Associate Professor in Economics at Brunel University, London, and a Visiting Fellow in European Political Economy at the London School of Economics. You can follow him on Twitter: @CMacchiarelli.

Articles by Corrado Macchiarelli

► Now it is the turn of leaders to do ‘whatever it takes’ to save Europe / April 2020

Dylan Macchiarini Crosson

Dylan Macchiarini Crosson is a Researcher in the EU Foreign Policy Unit at CEPS. His main expertise relates to the areas of EU foreign, security, and defence policies, transatlantic relations, and EU institutional and political dynamics in these areas.

He is specialised in matters of EU security and defence in particular, with deep expertise on the positions and policies of the EU and EU member states, EU-NATO and EU-US security and defence relations, and the EU’s security and defence institutional set-up and political dynamics, as illustrated by several publications on these subjects. He has also worked in depth on EU defence technological and industrial base dynamics including capabilities development, procurement, industrial fragmentation, funding instruments, and arms transfers.

Dylan’s research portfolio and engagement with stakeholders also focuses on the way the EU navigates the return of multipolar competition and balances against hostile actors such as China and Russia, the EU’s support for and contribution to global governance and multilateral institutions, and the EU’s approach to preventing conflict and violent extremism.

Articles by Dylan Macchiarini Crosson

► Blood, toil, tears and sweat: The European Political Community’s summit in the UK / July 2024

Alasdair MacEwen

Alasdair MacEwen is a director of the research and advisory consultancy, Culmer Raphael. After beginning his career as an economist at the UK Treasury, he moved to public affairs consultancy where he has advised companies and organisations including Microsoft, Aviva, London 2012 and Zurich Financial Services. He is a French-British national who has worked in politics and government in Scotland, Spain, France, Brussels and London.

Articles by Alasdair MacEwen

► French carbon tax and the Gilets Jaunes / February 2019

Denis MacShane

Denis MacShane was the youngest president of the National Union of Journalists in 1979. He writes on European politics and policy. He was Labour MP for Rotherham 1994-2012 and Minister for Europe 2002-05. He has written three books on Brexit and first used the word in 2012. His latest book is Must Labour Always Lose?

Articles by Denis MacShane

Robert Madelin

Robert Madelin is FIPRA International’s Chairman and Chief Strategist. Before joining FIPRA in 2016, Robert held a series of senior positions at the European Commission, notably as Director General for Health and Consumer Policy (SANCO) in 2004-10.

Articles by Robert Madelin

Juergen Maier

Juergen Maier was appointed Chief Executive of Siemens in the UK on 1 July 2014. He has been a member of the Siemens UK Executive Board since 2008, and held senior roles within Siemens in the UK and Germany including Managing Director of Industry for the UK and Ireland and Manufacturing Director of the award-winning Drives factory in Congleton. Born in Germany with Austrian nationality, he came to the UK as a child in the 1970s. He tweerts @Juergen_Maier.

Articles by Juergen Maier

► Why business must speak up for Britain and the EU / December 2014

Sébastien Maillard

Sébastien Maillard was a journalist at La Croix, where he covered Emmanuel Macron’s first election campaign. Previously correspondent of the daily in Brussels and then in Rome, he made numerous reportages across the whole continent. He is a specialist in European affairs that he taught at Sciences Po (Paris) and Boston College. He serves as Director of the Jacques Delors Institute since 2017. He is the author of 'What We Have made of Europe?'(edited by Salvator, 2013) and of 'Faire l’Europe dans un monde de brutes' with the Institute's president, Enrico Letta, published in 2019.

Articles by Sébastien Maillard

► War or Europe / January 2023

Erika Mann

Erika Mann joined Facebook's Global Public Policy Team inOctober 2011 heading up a new office in Brussels where she is the company's lead spokesperson for EU affairs. She was the Executive Vice President for the Computer&Communications Industry Association in Brussels between December 2009 and October 2011. She was a German Member of the European Parliament between 1994 and 2009.

Articles by Erika Mann

► Europe needs smart regulation to help innovative start-ups / July 2012

Catriona Manville

Catriona Manville is a research leader at RAND Europe, where she works in the area of innovation, health and science. Since joining RAND, she has been involved in and managed research, policy analysis and evaluation studies across the sectors of health and higher education.

Articles by Catriona Manville

Emma Marcegaglia

Emma Marcegaglia has been President of BUSINESSEUROPE since July 2013. Ms Marcegaglia is Vice-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Marcegaglia S.p.A., a leading group in steel processing, and of its controlled companies. She has been chairman of ENI since 8 May 2014, president of Confindustria from May 2008 until May 2012 and president of Luiss Guido Carli University since July 2010.

Articles by Emma Marcegaglia

► What European business wants from COP21 / October 2015

Joe Marshall

Joe Marshall is a senior researcher at the Institute for Government, working on Brexit. He has previously contributed to the Institute’s work on tax and parliament. He joined the organisation in October 2018 from HM Treasury, where he worked on EU exit legislation as policy lead on the EU (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill and the meaningful vote.

Articles by Joe Marshall

► The UK government is keen to demonstrate the benefits of Brexit – but it can’t ignore the costs / July 2021

Marta Martinelli

Dr. Marta Martinelli heads the EU external relations team of the Open Society European Policy Institute, where she oversees policy development and EU advocacy within the institute. She is also responsible for work on gender, democratization, security governance, and development issues in Africa. She joined the Open Society Foundations in May 2010.

Articles by Marta Martinelli

► Three ways the spread of COVID-19 can help institutions reconnect with citizens / March 2020

Olivier Marty

Olivier Marty is a Lecturer in European economics at SciencesPo and Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS). His research interests include Brexit, Eurozone reform, investment and European economic policies. Before moving to academia, Olivier served as an economist at Société Générale and at the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB).

Articles by Olivier Marty

Heidi Maurer

Dr Heidi Maurer is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at SPAIS of the University of Bristol, leading the project “EuroDipl: the added value of European diplomacy coordination. She is also a Research Associate at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford and a Visiting Professor in European Diplomacy at the College of Europe in Bruges.

Articles by Heidi Maurer

► The EU’s Political and Security Committee: still in the shadows but no longer governing? / November 2020

Mario Mauro

Mario Mauro is a former Vice President of the European Parliament, having served as an MEP from 1999 to 2013. Also a former Italian senator, he served as Minister of Defence in the Letta Cabinet and previously as representative of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in (OSCE) against racism, xenophobia and discrimination, with special reference to discrimination against Christians. He has been professor of history at the European University of Rome since 2008 and is a senior adviser at Cambre Associates.

Articles by Mario Mauro

► The EU’s choice: solidarity today or mistrust tomorrow? / April 2020

Joanna Maycock

Joanna Maycock has been Secretary General of the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) since May 2014. Founded in 1990, the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) is the largest alliance of women’s non-governmental associations in the European Union, with members throughout the EU who come together around our common vision of a Feminist Europe. She led ActionAid International’s work in Europe: Developing and implementing EU campaigns on aid effectiveness, women’s rights, and policy coherence for development. Joanna is also a former President of CONCORD, the European Confederation of Development NGOs. Prior to that she worked for the International Organisation for Migration in Brussels.

Articles by Joanna Maycock

Claire McConnell

Claire McConnell joined E3G from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (formerly DFID), where she worked on land governance and tenure security, as well as on the COP26 Sustainable Agriculture Campaign and the UK’s Forest Governance, Markets and Climate programme. Prior to this she worked with the Green Group in the European Parliament and undertook a Blue Book Traineeship in DG DEVCO in the European Commission, as well as working on monitoring and evaluation of development projects with an NGO in Udaipur, India.

Articles by Claire McConnell

► Narrowed but not closed: COP26 and the gap to 1.5C / December 2021

Bobby McDonagh

Bobby McDonagh, a former Irish diplomat, served as Ireland’s Permanent Representative to the EU (2005 to 2009), Ambassador to the UK (2009 to 2013), to Italy (2013 to 2017) and to Malaysia (2000-2001). He also worked on EU issues in Dublin for many years, including as EU Director General at the Department of Foreign Affairs. In addition to representing Ireland in the Council of Ministers for seven years, he worked in the cabinets of two Irish members of the European Commission and as an official of the European Parliament. He has written extensively about the European Union. He is now a media commentator, notably on Brexit and the European Union, and an Executive Coach.

Articles by Bobby McDonagh

Gibbs McKinley

Gibbs McKinley is the Executive Research Assistant at the Center for a New American Security. Her work encompasses U.S. national security and global threats to democracy.

Articles by Gibbs McKinley

► Unintended consequences of U.S. industrial policies: discord in the transatlantic alliance / December 2022

Michael McTernan

Michael McTernan is acting director of Policy Network.

Articles by Michael McTernan

► Europe's digital economy dilemma / April 2015

Simon McVicker

Simon McVicker is Director of Policy and External Affairs at IPSE, the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self Employed. IPSE works on behalf of 4.5 million people working for themselves in the UK – the largest body of its kind in Europe – and also works closely with Brussels-based ESBA and EFIP.

Articles by Simon McVicker

► The UK’s smallest businesses need the full picture before the EU referendum / November 2015

Geoff Meade

Geoff Meade is a journalist with, tragically, 35 years’ experience of covering EU affairs. The former Europe Editor of the Press Association now moderates conferences and speaks at events and on EU affairs, but only if invited. He pops up on radio and television now and then, usually to be asked searching questions about what Boris Johnson, a former Brussels colleague, is really like. A few copies of Geoff’s major literary work, “All In A Day’s Shirk”, a collection of columns about family life and other oddities, are still available.

In fact, quite a lot are still available……….

http://www.meadedaviscomm.eu/

Articles by Geoff Meade

Kamel Mellahi

Kamel Mellahi is a Professor of Strategic Management at Warwick Business School. He has authored and co-authored six books and published more than 80 scholarly articles in various journals including the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Academy of Management Perspectives, Journal of World Business, and the Journal of International Business Studies. He serves as a Senior Editor for the Journal of World Business and Consulting Editor for the British Journal of Management.

Articles by Kamel Mellahi

Josh Meltzer

Dr. Joshua Meltzer is a senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution. He works on international economic relations with a focus on the intersection of digital technology and international trade and investment. Along with Cameron Kerry, he co-leads the Forum on Cooperation in Artificial Intelligence (FCAI)—a multistakeholder dialogue with government officials from the U.S., EU, Canada, the U.K., Singapore, Japan, and Australia, as well as AI experts from industry and academia. He also leads the USMCA initiative, which focuses on how the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) can strengthen international cooperation in North America.

Articles by Josh Meltzer

► The EU AI Act: its international implications for AI policy development and cooperation / September 2022

Anand Menon

Anand Menon is Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at Kings College London. He also directs the Economic and Social Research Council Initiative on the UK in a Changing Europe. He is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of the European Union (2012) and author, amongst other things, of Europe: The State of the Union (2008). @anandmenon1

Articles by Anand Menon

Giles Merritt

Giles Merritt is the author of a new book entitled People Power: Why We Need More Migrants that examines the complex economic and political issues surrounding European attitudes and policies on immigration. Giles is the Founder and Chairman of Friends of Europe, the leading Brussels think tank that since 1999 has used innovative methods to bring EU-related issues to public attention around Europe. A former Financial Times Brussels Correspondent, Giles Merritt is a journalist, author and broadcaster who has for over four decades specialised in European public policy questions.

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Giles Merritt

Giles Merritt is Founder and Chairman of the prominent Brussels think-tank Friends of Europe, and Editor-in-Chief of its policy journal Europe's World. His new book Slippery Slope: Europe's Troubled Future is published by Oxford University Press.

Articles by Giles Merritt

Zach Meyers

Zach Meyers is a research fellow at the Centre for European Reform. He previously practised as a competition and regulatory lawyer in Australia, the US and the UK and has expertise in economic regulation and network industries. He publishes on EU competition policy and technology issues.

Articles by Zach Meyers

Jeremy Mills-Sheehy

Jeremy Mills-Sheehy is a research assistant, working on the Institute’s Brexit programme. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a Master of Public Policy in 2019. Prior to joining the Institute, he worked in the higher education sector and community radio.

Articles by Jeremy Mills-Sheehy

► The UK government is keen to demonstrate the benefits of Brexit – but it can’t ignore the costs / July 2021

Nicolas Moës

Nicolas Moë is an economist by training focused on the impact of General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) on geopolitics, the economy and industry. He is the Executive Director at The Future Society, where he works on the management, strategy and stakeholder engagement for the organization. He previously studied and monitored European developments in the legislative framework surrounding AI, and was active on the EU AI Act drafting and on building its enforcement mechanisms.

Articles by Nicolas Moës

► Why does the GPAI Code of Practice matter to Europe and to the rest of the world - a boon for responsible AI innovation? / November 2024

Alexander Mohr

Alexander Mohr joined APEAL in 2013 from the European container glass association FEVE, where he held the position of Senior Public Affairs Manager and Legal Counsel. Before moving to EU affairs in Brussels he worked for the German political think tank Friedrich Naumann Foundation.

Articles by Alexander Mohr

► Making a success of the circular economy / December 2015

Almut Möller

Almut Möller has been head of the Alfred von Oppenheim Center for European Policy Studies at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) since 2010. From 2008 to 2010 she lived and worked as a freelance political analyst in London. Between 2002 and 2008 she was a researcher at the Center for Applied Policy Research (CAP) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, where she initially worked in the European Union Reform and Enlargement Program and since 2007 as head of the Center’s Euro-Mediterranean Program.

Articles by Almut Möller

► Savvy banality: changing the notion of reform in the EU / March 2014

James Moran

James Moran is Associate Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels. He was Principal Advisor on the Middle East and North Africa at the EU's External Action Service in Brussels in 2016/2017. His long service with the European Institutions was spent entirely in external relations and includes wide experience in European foreign, security, trade and development policy in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. From 2012 to 2016, he was EU Ambassador and Head of the European Union Delegation in the Arab Republic of Egypt, and from 1999-2002 was EU Ambassador to Jordan and Yemen. James was also the EU's senior coordinator in Libya during the 2011 revolution.

Articles by James Moran

Marley Morris

Marley Morris is Associate Director for Migration, Trade and Communities at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). He specialises in research on Brexit, trade and migration policy and has led projects on the implications of Brexit for labour and social protections, the future of US-UK trade relations, the points-based immigration system, and the EU Settlement Scheme.

Articles by Marley Morris

Evelyn Morrison

Evelyn Morrison is a student at Long Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge, where she is studying for her A levels. In July 2015 she gained a week of work experience at the Policy Institute at Kings under the supervision of Jonathan Grant and Benedict Wilkinson. Evelyn is currently applying to Sheffield University to study Economics and Philosophy.

Articles by Evelyn Morrison

Paige Morrow

Paige Morrow is head of Brussels Operations at Frank Bold, a purpose-driven law firm. The firm leads the Purpose of the Corporation Project, which invites businesses, academics, policymakers, and civil society to debate the future of publicly traded companies. Paige is also a visiting lecturer on corporate governance in the Masters of Law programme at the University of Kent BSIS. She has also held positions at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), the Kenya National Commission for Human Rights and the South African Legal Resources Centre.

Articles by Paige Morrow

Camino Mortera-Martinez

Camino Mortera-Martinez is head of the Centre for European Reform's Brussels office where she is a senior research fellow working on justice and home affairs, with a particular focus on migration, internal security, criminal law and police and judicial co-operation. She is also interested in the institutional dimension of justice and home affairs and the relationship between privacy and security both at EU and national levels.

Articles by Camino Mortera-Martinez

Vivienne Moxham-Hall

Dr Vivienne Moxham-Hall is a Research Associate at the Policy Institute, King’s College London. She majored in Immunobiology in her undergraduate degree and has a Master of Health Policy from the University of Sydney and has a PhD from the University of New South Wales for which she won the Dean’s Award for outstanding thesis. She has experience working across government, NGO and academic sectors as a Policy Officer the NSW state government health department and as a Board Director for the University of Sydney Union and Australian think tank Australia21. Since being at the Policy Institute Vivienne has been involved in the flagship COVID-19 “Life under lockdown” surveys.

Articles by Vivienne Moxham-Hall

► The Covid-19 misinformation challenge / January 2021

Marin Mrčela

Justice Mrčela is President of the Council of Europe's Group of States against Corruption (GRECO). In this capacity, he has encouraged countering corruption through a multidisciplinary approach, calling upon Member States to set up overarching integrity policies covering all branches of government. Prior to becoming Chair of GRECO, Justice Mrčela was a longstanding member of its Bureau, where he took a decisive role in designing and pushing forward an evaluation of political financing in Europe and the USA. Within Croatia, Justice Mrčela is the vice-President of the Supreme Court and has also served as a judge in war crimes.

Articles by Marin Mrčela

Georgette Mulheir

Georgette Mulheir has worked for more than two decades in 23 countries around the world, leading large-scale programmes to transform (and at times save) the lives of thousands of disadvantaged children. She pioneered a model of ‘deinstitutionalisation’ now followed by many governments, preventing the separation of children from families, returning children from institutions and so-called ‘orphanages’ to families, and shifting finances from harmful institutions to community services that support children in families. She advises officials at the European Commission on using EU funds for reforming children’s services.

Articles by Georgette Mulheir

► How the EU can help Haiti's orphans / September 2016

Andreas Müllerleile

Andreas Müllerleile is a political analyst with an interest in digital communications. He blogs at kosmopolito.org about EU politics and the European public sphere. He also worked for the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and is a co-founder of bloggingportal.eu. You can follow him on twitter @kosmopolit.

Articles by Andreas Müllerleile

► UK, UKIP, EP / April 2014

Robyn Munro

Robyn Munro is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Government, where she manages the Institute’s work on Brexit. Her work at the Institute has also focused on intergovernmental relations in the UK and how the UK Government engages with business. Prior to joining the Institute in August 2013, she worked for a public affairs consultancy advising clients from the social housing, green energy and property development sectors.

Articles by Robyn Munro

George Murkin

George Murkin is Acting Head of Communications at the Policy Institute, King’s College London. He manages public engagement activities for the institute, including media, events and online, and has been involved in key studies on issues ranging from Covid-19 and Brexit to inequality and culture wars.

Articles by George Murkin

► The ripple effects of Brexit / July 2021

Lara Natale

Lara Natale is a Brussels-based advisor and expert in tech and digital policy. Most recently, she directed the Tech, Media, Telecom and Mobility activities at the Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE) and also co-led the Tech, Media, Telecoms practice at FTI Consulting EU, providing strategic EU public policy and regulatory counsel to global businesses and served as Attachée at the (then-named) UK Permanent Representation to the EU, negotiating digital, culture, skills and other legislation. She has also held roles across social policy areas within civil society, think tanks and research institutes in Brussels and London.

Articles by Lara Natale

► EU’s digital ambitions beset with strategic dissonance / February 2022

Adam Nathan

Adam Nathan is Director of Our Biggest Market, the cross-party campaign for Britain to remain in a reformed Single Market and Deputy Director of British Influence, the campaign for British leadership in Europe. Between 1996-2005 he worked in the media including for BBC Television and The Sunday Times. He has gone on to manage several high-profile business campaigns through bringing together broad coalitions of banks, service providers, technology manufacturers and civil society.

Articles by Adam Nathan

► British small firms need the EU's single market / February 2014

Marceline Naudi

Dr Marceline Naudi is President of GREVIO, the Council of Europe monitoring body of the Istanbul Convention, having also participated in the drafting of the Convention as a member of CAHVIO. She is a social worker by profession, a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Gender Studies, University of Malta, as well as an activist. Her specialist areas are gender issues, violence against women, LGBTIQ, as well as wider human rights. She was a board member of the WAVE network and the Scientific Coordinator of the European Observatory on Femicide. She is Regional Editor of the Journal on Gender Based Violence and has authored various publications in her areas of expertise.

Articles by Marceline Naudi

► Combatting violence against women in the Netherlands: let’s talk about gender / January 2020

Violeta Naydenova

Violeta Naydenova is a Bulgarian Roma working as a senior policy analyst for the Open Society European Policy Institute. She works on tracking and analysing the development of EU policies, funding, and legislation on social inclusion, especially for Roma, and developing strategies to influence them.

Articles by Violeta Naydenova

Iva Nenadic

Iva Nenadic is a researcher at the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF) of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Her research focuses on changes in news media and journalism fostered by digital technologies.

Articles by Iva Nenadic

David Newman

David Newman is President of the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA). In the past he has served in several positions, including being a Managing Director at ATIA-ISWA ITALIA, Consultant, and Managing Director at Greenpeace Italy.

Articles by David Newman

► Waste not, warm less / December 2013

Darcy Nicolle

Darcy Nicolle is an independent consultant at PoliticalSolutions.co and author of “The Secret Art of Lobbying” published 13^thAugust 2019, by Biteback Publishing, London.

Articles by Darcy Nicolle

Carisa Nietsche

Carisa Nietsche is an Associate Fellow in the Transatlantic Security Program at the Center for a New American Security. Her research focuses on threats to democracy, China’s growing footprint in Europe, and transatlantic technology policy.

Articles by Carisa Nietsche

Mariyan Nikolov

Mariyan Nikolov is an associate at the City of London Corporation with a focus on European policy and sustainability. His academic background is in international politics and diplomacy. He previously worked on development and emerging markets at the European Commission.

Articles by Mariyan Nikolov

► Lost in transition: the extent of carbon pricing initiatives / November 2021

Simon Nixon

Simon Nixon is an independent journalist and writes the Wealth of Nations newsletter which focuses on European political economy. He was previously chief leader writer and a columnist for The Times, chief European commentator at The Wall Street Journal and executive editor of ReutersBreakingviews. To sign up for Wealth of Nation, go to https://nixons.substack.com/.

Articles by Simon Nixon

Anila Noor

Anila Noor is a human rights activist and researcher based in the Netherlands. She holds two Masters Degrees; an M.A. in Conflict and Peace Studies from Erasmus University in the Netherlands and an MSc from Allama Iqbal Open University in Pakistan specialising in Gender and Women Studies. Currently, she works on the subject of Receiving Refugees in Urban Settings: Narratives from the Netherlands. She became involved in the subject of forced migration and identity crises after going through the same experience.

Articles by Anila Noor

Patrick Nopens

Brigadier General (Retd) Patrick Nopens was twice Belgian defence Attaché to Moscow and the CIS (2000-2004 and 2007-2009). From 2009 to 2015 he was a senior associate fellow at the Egmont Institute, focusing on CIS affairs. Since then, he nas become involved in preventing corruption in defence and security in working for NATO, Transparency International and the Defence Academy of the UK.

Articles by Patrick Nopens

Dennis Novy

Dennis Novy is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick and a Research Investigator for The UK in a Changing Europe. He is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and an Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics. Dennis has been a recent visitor at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and the University of California, Davis. Dennis was the Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords for their inquiry into the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

Articles by Dennis Novy

► The Brexit vote, inflation and UK living standards / November 2017

Vassilis Ntousas

Vassilis Ntousas is Head of European Operations for GMF’s Alliance for Securing Democracy. His research interests lie in European foreign policy and the European Union’s global engagement. Prior to joining GMF, he was the Senior International Relations Policy Advisor at the Foundation for European Progressive Studies in Brussels, where he led the foundation’s global research, advocacy, and strategic convening work. In 2019–2020, he held the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Academy fellowship at Chatham House, where he remains an Academy Associate with the institute’s Europe program. He is the author of several policy papers and regularly comments on global affairs for international media outlets. He is also the co-editor of two books published by Routledge, The European Union and China’s Belt and Road: Impact, Engagement and Competition (2021) and EU Climate Diplomacy: Politics, Law and Negotiations (2018).

Articles by Vassilis Ntousas

Jacob Öberg

Dr Jacob Öberg is a Full Professor of European Union Law at the Law Department at the University of Southern Denmark, Visitng Professor in EU Law at Örebro University and a Visiting Fellow at Lund University, Faculty of Law. He previously held positions as Associate Professor in EU law at Örebro University (where he acted as Deputy Head of Department) and as a Postdoctoral Fellow in law at Lund University. He earned his PhD in European Law from the European University Institute in Florence. His research interests lie primarily in EU constitutional law and EU criminal law, including: multidisciplinary and contextual perspectives on EU law, theories of EU integration, the federal dimension of EU law, and the Union's criminal policy and its development under the Lisbon Treaty. His work has been cited by the European Parliament (where he also been consulted as an expert on the legislative file on violence against women) and he been involved as an expert on EU legislation in several major consulting projects with the European Commission.

Articles by Jacob Öberg

► Beyond the TCA and Brexit - is the EU interested in a closer relationship with the UK? / June 2024

Jack O'Connor

Jack O'Connor is Chair of the EU-UK Follow-up Committee, working body of the External Relations Section at the European Economic and Social Committee. In this role, he is also rapporteur for the Information Report on the Implementation of the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement, including the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland, adopted in January 2023. Jack is an Irish trade unionist, who served as General President of SIPTU, Ireland's largest trade union from 2003 to 2018 and President of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), which also organises on an all-island basis, from 2009 to 2011. He also served as chairman of the Irish Labour Party from April 2017 to November 2021.

Articles by Jack O'Connor

► Civil society reinforcing the bridges between EU and UK / February 2023

Tim Oliver

Tim Oliver is a Fritz Thyssen Transatlantic Post-Doctoral Fellow for International Relations and Security (TAPIR) at the Center for Transatlantic Relations of the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Washington D.C. Educated at the University of Liverpool and the London School of Economics, he has worked in the European Parliament, the House of Lords, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP, Berlin), and taught at UCL, LSE and as a senior lecturer at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

Articles by Tim Oliver

Tim Oliver

Dr Tim Oliver is a Dahrendorf Fellow for Europe-North American relations at LSE IDEAS. He is also a non-resident fellow of the Center for Transatlantic Relations of the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Washington D.C. He spent several years as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Defence and International Affairs at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He has also taught at UCL and LSE. He has worked in the European Parliament, the House of Lords, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs and the RAND Corporation.

Articles by Tim Oliver

Jason O'Mahony

Jason O’Mahony is an award winning Irish political blogger. He has campaigned in numerous EU referendums in Ireland, ran as a Progressive Democrat, and has been accused of being in the pay of the Giant Shapeshifting Lizards of Davos. He blogs at www.jasonomahony.ie.

Articles by Jason O'Mahony

► Out! 10 years after Brexit / February 2014

David Osimo

David Osimo is Director of Tech4i2 ltd which he co-founded in 2008 and has more than 15 years of experience as advisor on information society and innovation policies in a variety of settings, inside and outside government, at local and international level (European Commission Joint Research Centre - IPTS). As a researcher, he is mostly known for his pioneering work on web 2.0 in government and has authored articles and reports on a wider variety of technology topics, including future government, public procurement for innovation, new innovation models, research policy, ICT statistics. As a policy “hacker”, he managed several initiatives for opening up European policy-making, such as: the 2009 Open Declaration on Public Services (http://eups20.wordpress.com), the website CommentNeelie.eu and the digital engagement strategy for the Digital Agenda for Europe in both 2011 and 2012 (for the EC). He also designed successful inducement prizes for innovation such as the Innovative and Creative Application awards (www.inca-award.be) and Ideamocracy.it (for the Emilia-Romagna region). He blogs at http://egov20.wordpress.com and tweets @osimod.

Articles by David Osimo

► Open policy making with the Digital Agenda for Europe / September 2012

Ihssane Otmani

Ihssane Otmani worked for several years in the private and public sectors in Morocco as an HR and communications manager. She has worked with various organisations in Germany dealing with Refugees over the past year and currently is doing an internship at the British Embassy in Berlin. Her main interests are international affairs, migration and labour policy.

Articles by Ihssane Otmani

Joe Owen

Joe Owen is a programme director at the Institute for Government, leading their work on Brexit.

Articles by Joe Owen

► Boris Johnson must decide how to spend his big blank cheque for Brexit / December 2019

Ismael Paez Civico

Ismael Paez Civico is Executive Coordinator of the Confederation of European Senior Expert Services and Board Member at the European Youth Forum.

Articles by Ismael Paez Civico

► Paving the way for UK-EU youth engagement / November 2023

Marie Palmer

Marie Palmer is Research Fellow at the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom and coordinator of the Media Pluralism Monitor project. Marie holds a Ph.D in Communication from the University of Technology Sydney, a Master of Public Administration from Sciences-Po Paris and a Master in Journalism practices from l’Ecole de Journalisme de Paris. Her research interests include news, social media and algorithms, with a focus on how circulation algorithms carry ideologies from a social semiotics perspective. Before dedicating her time to academic research, she worked as a journalist and as a corporate communication officer.

Articles by Marie Palmer

► What are the main threats to media pluralism in Europe? / October 2024

Bojan Pancevski

Bojan Pancevski is The Wall Street Journal's Germany Correspondent, covering all aspects of Europe’s largest economy and its influence on the rest of the continent and beyond. Before joining the WSJ he had been covering Europe for The Sunday Times from Brussels and Vienna, focusing on subjects as diverse as the financial crisis, the war in Eastern Ukraine, the 2015 migration crisis, the rise of Islamic terror, Russian meddling in Europe and Britain’s departure from the European Union.

Articles by Bojan Pancevski

Elene Panchulidze

Elene Panchulidze is the Research Coordinator at the European Partnership for Democracy (EPD), where she oversees global research on democracy and leads the European Democracy Hub initiative. She has a decade of professional experience in research and policy analysis and has led many international research projects on EU foreign policy, democracy, civil society, and gender. Prior to joining EPD, Panchulidze worked at the European Endowment for Democracy, the College of Europe in Bruges, the EU Delegation to Georgia, and the OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission to Georgia.

Articles by Elene Panchulidze

► A Democracy Shield for Europe? / June 2024

George Papaconstantinou

George Papaconstantinou is a former Greek Finance Minister and currently Professor at the School of Transnational Governance of the European University Institute. His book Whatever It Takes: The Battle for Post-Crisis Europe has just been published by Agenda Publishing.

Articles by George Papaconstantinou

► “Whatever It Takes” – it’s the attitude that counts / October 2019

Noémie Papp

Since 2012 Noémie Papp has been adviser at the European Banking Federation in charge of retail and consumer affairs issues. Noémie is also coordinator of the work conducted by the EBF Strategic Issue Group on digital banking. Prior to joining the EBF, Noémie worked for almost two years in a worldwide public relations and public affairs consultancy in Brussels.

Articles by Noémie Papp

► Unlocking the digital opportunities of the banking sector / January 2016

Jonas Parello-Plesner

Jonas Parello-Plesner is Executive Director of the Copenhagen-based Alliance of Democracies Foundation chaired by former NATO-Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. The Foundation seeks to advance democracy and strengthen the alliance between the world’s democracies. He is also a non-resident senior fellow with the German Marshall Fund. His research focuses on Asia and China and relations with EU and the U.S and he has provided commentaries for Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, the American Interest and E!Sharp.

Articles by Jonas Parello-Plesner

Lara Pariotto

Lara Pariotto is the Executive Director of Migrant Democracy Project, an organisation working to support the political empowerment of migrants across the UK through voter registration, political candidacy training, and advocacy for the extension of the right to vote. Lara is from Brazil and has spent the last 10 years in the UK working on migrant justice, including support for migrants in detention and EU citizens making applications to the EU Settlement Scheme. She has led campaigns on access to British citizenship and has been working on the Our Home Our Vote campaign for voting rights for all residents.

Articles by Lara Pariotto

► The voting rights lottery and EU-UK relations / November 2024

Tom Parker

Tom Parker is President of the British Chamber of Commerce to Belgium and the EU www.britishchamber.be/, founder and Chairman of Cambre Associates (www.cambre-associates.com & @CambreAssoc) and Deputy Chief Executive and Board Member of SECNewgate (www.secnewgate.com).

Articles by Tom Parker

Roderick Parkes

Roderick Parkes is a scholar (2014-2015) at the Utrikespolitiska Institutet (UI) in Stockholm, and a senior fellow (non-resident) with the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM) and the German Institute of International and Security Affairs (SWP).

Articles by Roderick Parkes

Patryk Pawlak

Patryk Pawlak is Research Fellow at the EU Institute for Security Studies in Paris where he deals with transatlantic relations, including US domestic and foreign policies.

Articles by Patryk Pawlak

► Europe has a security duty in the Asia Pacific / October 2012

John Peet

John Peet has been an editor and writer at The Economist since 1986, in roles including executive editor, business affairs editor, Brexit editor and a correspondent in Brussels and Washington. Earlier, he was a civil servant at the Treasury and Foreign Office. He is the coauthor of “Unhappy Union: How the Euro Crisis—and Europe—Can Be Fixed” (Profile Books, 2014). In 2012 he won the Gerald Loeb Award for commentary.

Articles by John Peet

► Education wanted / December 2023

George Peretz

George Peretz KC BL practises in public law, competition law, VAT, medicines regulation and regulatory law generally. He served for many years on the Attorney General’s panels until he took silk in 2015. He is currently chairing the Bar Council working group on retained EU law. George was called to the Bar of Ireland in 2018.

Articles by George Peretz

► Navigating Retained EU Law / November 2022

Giacomo Persi Paoli

Giacomo Persi Paoli is a senior analyst in RAND Europe. His areas of expertise focus on defence and security issues, particularly counter-terrorism, maritime security and border security. Currently Giacomo is leading RAND’s Mediterranean Foresight Forum (MFF), which is examining key issues that are currently affecting the region, from economic, political and social instability right through to the migrant crisis that is currently impacting mainland Europe. Prior to joining RAND Europe, he served 14 years in the Italian Navy, with experience on the frontline of the migrant crisis rescuing migrants at sea.

Articles by Giacomo Persi Paoli

► Why now is the time for a unified response to Europe's migrant crisis / February 2016

Vivien Pertusot

Vivien Pertusot is head of office in Brussels for the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri). He is the coordinator of the EU project “Building Bridges between National Perspectives on the European Union” and of the Ifri’s research programme RESET (REcalibrating Security in Europe and in the Transatlantic area). His research focuses on the EU’s future, Europe defence policies and EU-UK relations. You can follow him at @VPertusot.

Articles by Vivien Pertusot

Thiess Petersen

Dr. Thieß Petersen, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Gütersloh. As a senior expert with the project Global Economic Dynamics (GED) Thieß specializes on macro-economic studies and economics. He is currently concentrating on the causes and effects of financial and economic crises, the chances and risks of globalisation and the public debt and euro crisis.

Articles by Thiess Petersen

► Brexit – a losing deal for everybody / April 2015

John Peterson

John Peterson is Professor of International Politics at the University of Edinburgh. He has held previous posts at the Universities of Glasgow, York and elsewhere. Recent publications include Parochial Global Europe (OUP 2014), Multilateralism in the 21st Century: Europe’s Quest for Effectiveness (Routledge 2014) and The European Commission of the 21st Century (Oxford University Press 2014).

Articles by John Peterson

► Parochial global Europe: 21st century trade politics / May 2014

John Peterson

John Peterson is Professor of International Politics at the University of Edinburgh. He previously has held posts at the Universities of Glasgow, York, Essex, Oxford, and the University of California. John is Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Politics and International Relations. His recent works include The European Union: How Does it Work? (5th edn, 2018), The Institutions of the European Union (4th edn, 2017) and The West and the Global Power Shift (2016).

Articles by John Peterson

David Phinnemore

David Phinnemore is Professor of European Politics at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland and visiting Professor at the College of Europe. He teaches and researches the politics of the EU and has published widely on EU treaty reform, EU enlargement, EU external relations, Brexit and Northern Ireland. He is currently coordinating a three-year research project on Governance for 'a place between’: the Multilevel Dynamics of Implementing the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland.

Articles by David Phinnemore

Lea Pilsner

Lea Pilsner is a researcher at E3G

Articles by Lea Pilsner

► The EU budget can support a just transition, but not as it stands / November 2018

Jean-Claude Piris

Jean-Claude Piris is a consultant on EU and international law. An honorary Conseiller d'Etat, he was a diplomat at the UN, the OECD Legal Director, the Director General of the European Council/EU Council's Legal Services (1988-2010 and the Legal Counsel for negotiations of EU Treaties from Maastricht to Lisbon. Recent books:"The Lisbon Treaty",CUP,2010; "The Future of Europe:Towards a Two-Speed EU?",CUP,2012.(jeanclaudepiris@hotmail.com)

Articles by Jean-Claude Piris

Gérard Pogorel

Gérard Pogorel is Professor emeritus of Economics, Institut Polytechnique de Paris-Telecom Paris Graduate School of Engineering, CNRS Interdisciplinary Institute for Innovation. He is an independent expert in international telecommunications, media and the digital economy. He published recently widely circulated and influential position books and papers: Decoding EU Digital Strategy Autonomy (Co-Editor), EU Strategic Autonomy, industry implications in the changing world trade order (European Liberal Forum), 5G for Industry 4.0: Actors, Challenges, and a New Start for Europe, Spectrum 5.0 Re-thinking Spectrum Awards for Optimal 5G Deployment, and a reference book The Radio Spectrum: Managing a Strategic Resource.

He co-founded the European Spectrum Management Conferences, acted as its Chair/Rapporteur. He is an expert with the European Commission, and was Chair of the European Union Framework Research & Technology Development Programme Monitoring Panel, and Chair of the Monitoring Committee of the EU Information Society and Technologies Research Programme. He co-authored a report to the Prime Minister of Italy assessing the investments by operators in Broadband networks in the European Digital Agenda perspective.

Articles by Gérard Pogorel

Alexandra Pollitt

Alexandra Pollitt is a Research Fellow at the Policy Institute at King’s. While she works on a wide range of policy research and analysis, her focus is primarily on R&D policy and social policy evaluation. Prior to joining King’s, Alex spent six years at RAND Europe, a not-for-profit policy research institute. She has also worked in developmental psychiatry research, education assessment and impact measurement, monitoring and evaluation for an international NGO. Alex is a member of the steering committee for the International School on Research Impact Assessment and had taught research methods, communications and project management internationally.

Articles by Alexandra Pollitt

Thomas Pope

Thomas Pope is the deputy chief economist at the Institute for Government and works across its programme areas. He leads the Institute’s work on subsidy control. Thomas has an MSc in economics from UCL and a BA in philosophy, politics and economics from the University of Oxford.

Articles by Thomas Pope

► The UK’s replacement for state aid rules will affect UK-EU relations in the years to come / June 2021

Chris Poray

Chris Poray is Programme Manager and Executive Committee Member for TEAM Global, recently founding a student-led initiative called the International Perspective with TEAM’s support, in which students gain the knowledge and skills necessary to enter the international affairs sector. He is also a trainee at the European Space Agency working within the Telecommunications & Integrated Applications directorate. His interests include security and cybersecurity in relation to critical and technology infrastructure.

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Jonathan Portes

Jonathan Portes is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at King's College London, and a Senior Fellow of the ESRC's UK in a Changing Europe programme, which funds his ongoing research on this topic. More information on the programme is at www.ukandeu.ac.uk

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David Poyser

When he was responsible for a series of four BBC Open University television programmes, broadcast from 2001 to 2010, David Poyser was able to conduct interviews with many leading players in EU-UK relations including Ted Heath and Roy Jenkins. After a twenty year career in journalism and television production winning many Royal Television Society (RTS) Awards, then a period as Chair of the London RTS, he worked in various communications roles for the European Parliament, including with the Socialist Group of MEPs, the London office of the European Parliament, as a creative producer with the Parliament’s audiovisual unit and as a communications consultant to the Labour MEPs. Since returning to the UK, he has continued as a writer on European Affairs, a Blue Badge tour guide and Treasurer of the Labour Movement for Europe. He was Mayor of the London Borough of Islington from 2018-19.

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► Churchill and the European Union / August 2020

Julian Priestley

Sir Julian Priestley was Secretary General of the European Parliament from 1997 to 2007. Since then he has been writing, commenting and speaking about European politics. He has just published his first novel, ‘Putsch’ a political thriller set in Britain just after the turn of the century marks a new departure.

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Frank Pringle

Frank Pringle has recently completed an undergraduate degree in history and politics. He has a passion for European politics, international affairs, and interstate relations – in addition to a passion for youth engagement in politics and international relations.

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Michael Privot

Michael Privot is Director of the European Network Against Racism (ENAR). He is also an expert in Islamology and radicalisation processes within Muslim communities, and has more than a decade of experience in community building of Muslim communities in Belgium and Europe. Michael is the author of several books and has published a wide range of articles, both in mainstream media and academic journals.

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► Racial profiling at borders will not help counter terrorism / February 2016

Kenneth Propp

Kenneth Propp teaches European Union Law at Georgetown University Law Center, and serves as Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center in Washington, D.C. From 2011-2015, he served as Legal Counselor at the US Mission to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium, where he led U.S. government engagement with the EU on digital and privacy issues.

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► It’s time for privacy legislation in the United States (again) / February 2023

George Pufan

George Pufan is a former Director and Secretary-General of the Romanian Court of Accounts. He became a Member of the European Court of Auditors (ECA) in July 2013 and was responsible for the audit of a number of Joint Undertakings and European Agencies. In 2014, he was appointed to Chamber II of the ECA, which deals with performance audits in the areas of Environment, Society and Welfare, Tourism and Culture. He has been Reporting Member for audit reports on a range of topics including airport infrastructure and urban waste water treatment.

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Hans Pung

Hans Pung is president of RAND Europe, a not-for-profit public policy research organisation. Since joining RAND in 2002, Pung has held a range of senior leadership positions within the organisation, including directing RAND's European defence and security research portfolio. Prior to RAND, Pung served as an engineer officer in the United States Army with responsibility for logistics, personnel, and operations and overseas service in the United Kingdom, South Korea, and Germany.

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Fiona Quimbre

Fiona Quimbre is a defence and security analyst at RAND Europe. Her work focuses on futures foresight, Chinese foreign policy, cybersecurity, defence innovation and the impact of emerging technologies. At RAND, Quimbre has delivered projects for the European Commission, the European Defence Agency, EC DG HOME, the UK Ministry of Defence, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the Estonian Ministry of the Interior.

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► The implications for human rights in the digital age / September 2021

Joseph Quinlan

Joseph Quinlan is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC. In 2006, the American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union awarded Mr. Quinlan the 2006 Transatlantic Business Award for his research on U.S.-Europe economic ties. In 2007, he was a recipient of the European-American Business Council Leadership award for his research on the transatlantic partnership and global economy.

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► The perils of a Brexit for Corporate America / October 2015

Cristiano Radaelli

Cristiano Radaelli is the Vice President of Confindustria Digitale and President of Anitec, the Italian ICT organizations, Member of the Executive Board of DigitalEurope. He began his career in General Telephone and Electronics, moving afterwards to Siemens, Italtel and Nokia Siemens Networks, having global management responsibilities in R&D, Operations, Sales and Business Administration. He has also worked for several years in the United States. He writes articles on economics, management and digital agenda.

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► Digital industries and the path to growth in Europe / October 2013

Mujtaba Rahman

Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group's Europe Practice, where he advises a variety of investors on the politics and political economy of Europe. He previously worked at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, and at the UK Treasury. He teaches political risk to graduate students at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and at New York University's Stern Business School, where he is an Adjunct Professor.

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Ivan Rajic

Ivan Rajic is a Research Fellow at the Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK, working on Brexit and Manufacturing, funded by the ESRC's UK in a Changing Europe project. His interests cover industrial and regional policy and he is an associate member of staff of the Centre for Responsible Business. He previously worked at the University of Sheffield on Industry 4.0, and holds a PhD in Development Studies form cambridge University.

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Peter Rashish

Peter Rashish is Senior Fellow and Director of the Geoeconomics Program at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC. He has served as Vice President for Europe & Eurasia at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and as a consultant to the World Bank and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.

Articles by Peter Rashish

Harvey Redgrave

Harvey Redgrave is a senior policy fellow at the Institute for Global Change, leading on immigration and integration. In addition to his work at the Institute, Harvey is Director of Strategy at Crest Advisory, the country’s leading crime and justice consultancy. Previously, he spent four years as head of home affairs policy for the Labour Party and several years as a civil servant, including as a Deputy Director in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, where he worked under three Prime Ministers.

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Alastair Reed

Alastair Reed is a researcher at Policy Network.

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► Europe's digital economy dilemma / April 2015

Alexandre Regniault

Alexandre Regniault is a partner at Simmons & Simmons, and head of the firm’s Healthcare & Life Sciences sector group. He specialises in strategic legal and regulatory advice, principally on behalf of pharmaceutical and biotech/medtech companies, and significant players in other highly regulated industries. He joined Simmons & Simmons in 2002, having spent four years with another international legal network.

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► The UK-EU relationship can work better (and lawyers can help) / October 2024

Carolyn Reid

Carolyn Reid is Programme Manager for the Interreg France (Channel) England programme where she is responsible for overseeing a 200-million-euro fund aimed at delivering economic, environmental and social development in the France / UK Channel area. She is a highly experienced Programme Manager with a history of working government administration and on European Programmes.

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► Covid-19: Lessons can be learned from cross border collaboration / June 2021

Stuart Reigeluth

Stuart Reigeluth is editor of Revolve Magazine and works at the Council for European Palestinian Relations (CEPR) in Brussels. He is also a columnist at Gulf News in the United Arab Emirates and has contributed to many Arab and European newspapers and think-tanks.

Articles by Stuart Reigeluth

► Europe's southern Mediterranean priorities / May 2012

Joël Reland

Joël Reland is a researcher at UK in a Changing Europe, with a focus on UK-EU relations, UK foreign policy, and European politics. His academic background is in international politics and the history of political thought. He previously worked on European issues at the Foreign Office.

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Thomas Renard

Thomas Renard is a Research Fellow at Egmont - Royal Institute for International Relations, in Brussels. He is also co-founder and Deputy Head of the European Strategic Partnerships Observatory (ESPO), a Senior Associate Fellow with the Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation and a PhD candidate at Ghent University. In 2012, he published The European Union and Emerging Powers in the 21st Century: How Europe Can Shape a New Global Order (Farnham: Ashgate). All his publications are available at www.thomasrenard.eu. Previous contribution to E!Sharp: http://esharp2.tttp.eu/Web-specials/Coping-with-the-Copenhagen-syndrome.

Articles by Thomas Renard

► A strategic Union to cope with the multipolar challenge / June 2012

Allie Renison

Allie Renison is Head of EU and Trade Policy at the Institute of Directors and leads on devising recommendations and representing the voice of members on EU policy matters both to Westminster and Whitehall and with European institutions. She provides the link between business and Government on increasing international trade and has authored a number of reports on trends in both trade and trade policy, as well as running a number of trade missions for IoD members around the world every year. She also routinely provides advocacy for the IoD on a range of regulatory issues in Brussels.

Allie joined the IoD in April 2014. Prior to this, she was Research Director at Business for Britain, the campaign focused on renegotiating the UK's relationship with the EU. Allie has previously advised a number of parliamentarians in both Houses on EU legislative issues, with particular focus on trade and employment policy areas. She holds a Masters Degree in the political economy of emerging economies in the post-Soviet space.

Articles by Allie Renison

► Resetting UK-EU relations / July 2020

Lucia Retter

Lucia Retter is a senior analyst at RAND Europe. Since joining in 2013, she has led studies involving defence strategy, acquisition and capability, technology horizon scanning, defence and space industrial base and skills for the UK Ministry of Defence, the European Defence Agency, the European Commission and other European governments. She holds an M.A. cum laude in international relations and international economics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), where she specialised in economic policy, and a B.A. in modern languages from Clare College, University of Cambridge.

Articles by Lucia Retter

► US support for European Strategic Autonomy could boost transatlantic solidarity and security / November 2021

Alicia Richart

Alicia Richart is Government Affairs Director in Cellnex Telecom, a European infrastructure telecom company. She is a former executive advisor of the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, and Digital Champion in Spain. She is also in the board of PP in Cataluña as industry and new technologies secretary. Previously she worked for more than 10 years in Accenture in the management consulting area focusing on digital business.

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Karl Richter

Karl H Richter is a founder of the companies iSumio Ltd and EngagedX Ltd. iSumio develops software, including the novel Neoni App for carbon emissions accounting. EngagedX provides consulting services in social impact investing. He lectures part-time at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, specializing in ESG and Impact Investing as well as carbon emissions accounting; and is a member of the E-Liability Institute’s Technical Working Group, supporting the update of carbon accounting standards.

Previously he served a 12-month assignment as Head of Research and Knowledge for the UNDP SDG Impact Finance initiative (UNSIF); was a member of Groupe d'Experts de la Commission sur l'Entrepreneuriat Social (GECES) of the European Commission to advise on its Social Business Initiative; and was part of the OECD expert group on social impact investing. He is currently Senior Fellow at the Finance Innovation Lab; and Adviser to several organisations.

Articles by Karl Richter

► Busting the myths of carbon accounting: a new era of radical simplicity / September 2024

Peter Ricketts

Lord Peter Ricketts

Peter Ricketts joined the FCO in 1974. His early career took him to Singapore, NATO Brussels and Washington, interspersed with stints in London including as a junior Private Secretary to Geoffrey Howe in the early 1980s. In the 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he spent a lot of time in London dealing with the crises in Kosovo, and then the Iraq and Afghanistan wars as Political Director. He was Permanent Representative in 2003, became Permanent Under Secretary at the FCO in 2006, and was appointed Britain’s first National Security Adviser in 2010. His last post was Ambassador in France. After retirement in 2016, Peter became a cross-bench member of the House of Lords, where he sits on the Justice and Home Affairs Committee, and is a Visiting Professor at King’s College London. His first book, Hard Choices: What Britain Does Next, was published by Atlantic Books in May 2021.

Articles by Peter Ricketts

► The urgency of a positive dynamic in UK-EU relations / November 2021

Basile Ridard

Basile Ridard is Senior Research Fellow at the Egmont Institute and Assistant Professor at the University of Picardy Jules Verne. His research focuses on the Constitutional and Institutional Law of the European Union, the European decision-making process, the French and Comparative Constitutional Law. Previously, he was Lecturer in Sorbonne Law School, Vice-president of the Young Research Committee of the French Association of Constitutional Law and Fellow of the Franco-German Doctoral School College in Comparative Public Law.

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Georg Riekeles

Georg E. Riekeles is Associate Director at the Brussels-based think tank European Policy Centre (EPC). Prior to joining the EPC, he spent eleven years in the European Commission, the last five as diplomatic adviser with responsibilities for strategy in the EU-UK Brexit negotiations. He has also worked on trade, digital and single market polices, as well as security and defence issues, in the Commission’s in-house think tank and policy planning unit and as adviser to the Commission Vice-President for Internal market. He also has EU policy experience from the French Ministry of Foreign affairs and other government departments.

Articles by Georg Riekeles

Charles Ries

Charles P. Ries is vice president, international, at the non-profit, non-partisan RAND Corporation.

Articles by Charles Ries

► The costs of Brexit uncertainty / March 2020

Antoine Ripoll

Antoine Ripoll is the Director of the European Parliament Liaison Office in Washington DC. This article only reflects the author’s personal views.

Articles by Antoine Ripoll

Ariadna Ripoll Servent

Ariadna Ripoll Servent has been Assistant Professor of Political Science and European Integration at the University of Bamberg since 2013. She is currently Research Associate at the European University Institute in Florence and a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. Her latest book is ‘The European Parliament’ (published by MacMillan International Higher Education.

Articles by Ariadna Ripoll Servent

► Trilogue reform: displaced by Covid? / October 2020

Ariadna Ripoll Servent

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Timmons Roberts

J. Timmons Roberts is Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at the Center for Environmental Studies and founder of the Climate and Development Lab at Brown University.

Articles by Timmons Roberts

► A new EU/Latin America and the Caribbean coalition for climate change / November 2013

Frances Robinson

Frances Robinson is a freelance journalist. Formerly Wall Street Journal staff, she writes for Politico, the Wall Street Journal Europe and London's Evening Standard.

Articles by Frances Robinson

► Future-proofing the digital agenda / September 2015

Jasper Roctus

Jasper Roctus, who is presently completing his MA in sinology at Ghent University, was a Research Assistant at the Egmont Institute in the spring of 2020. He now plans to pursue a PhD.

Articles by Jasper Roctus

► Remoulding China’s “Empty” Belt and Road Initiative – an opportunity for the EU / August 2020

Christilla Roederer-Rynning

Christilla Roederer-Rynning is a Professor at the Southern Denmark University.

Articles by Christilla Roederer-Rynning

► Trilogue reform: displaced by Covid? / October 2020

James Rogers

James Rogers is Co-Director of the Group on Grand Strategy

Articles by James Rogers

► Putting Europeans back in the Indo-Pacific zone / January 2012

Charlene Rohr

Charlene Rohr is a Senior Research Leader at RAND Europe and a Senior Research Fellow at The Policy Institute at King's College London. She has over twenty five years of experience designing and analysing stated preference discrete choice experiments to quantify individuals’ responses to policy interventions and to quantify the value of non-market goods in a range of areas including transport, communications, goods and regulated services. Her other research interests are in transport and in 2015 she was lead author of a study looking at future transport scenarios for the UK in 2035. RAND Europe is a not-for-profit research organisation that helps to improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Articles by Charlene Rohr

Iulian Romanyshyn

Dr. Iulian Romanyshyn is a Charlemagne Prize Fellow at the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies (CASSIS) at the University of Bonn and associate fellow at the Egmont-Royal Institute for International Relations. He is currently working on a project about EU strategic autonomy in security and defense supported by the Charlemagne Prize Academy. He previously held teaching and research positions at New York University, Maastricht University, Free University of Brussels and European University Institute. Iulian's research has been acknowledged with the 2018 Global Strategy PhD Prize awarded by the Egmont - Royal Institute for International Relations and the European Security and Defence College.

Articles by Iulian Romanyshyn

► EU Strategic Autonomy: Unpacking the 'essentially contested concept' / July 2021

Irene Rosales

Irene Rosales is Policy and Campaigns Officer at the European Women’s Lobby where she is responsible of developing and delivering advocacy and campaigns plans in the fields of violence against women. She leads the European Women’s Lobby Observatory on Violence Against Women. In 2013, Irene worked in the coordination of the project “Act against rape! Use the Istanbul Convention”, developed in cooperation with the Council of Europe. Before joining EWL, she worked in the Europe Region World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) and in the Office of the EU Anti-Trafficking Coordinator.

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Jill Rutter

Jill Rutter is Senior Research Fellow at UK in a Changing Europe. Previously, Jill was programme director at the Institute for Government (IfG) directing the organisation’s work on better policy making and Brexit. She is an experienced former senior civil servant, having worked in HM Treasury, Number 10 and Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra). Jill’s writing is frequently in the media and she is a regular commentator on radio and television and tweets.

Articles by Jill Rutter

John Ryan

Professor John Ryan is a Network Research Fellow at CESifo, Munich, Germany and a Senior Brexit/EU adviser. He previously was a Fellow at London School of Economics and Political Science IDEAS, St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge, and the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin, Germany.

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► Can President Macron avoid cohabitation with Prime Minister Mélenchon? / May 2022

Philip Rycroft

Philip Rycroft worked in the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU) between March 2017 and March 2019, from October 2017 as Permanent Secretary. He was responsible for leading the department in all its work on the Government’s preparations for Brexit. From June 2015 to March 2019 he was head of the UK Governance Group in the Cabinet Office, with responsibility for advising ministers on all aspects of the constitution and devolution. From May 2012 to May 2015, he was the Director General in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg. Through his career, Philip worked in a variety of roles, in the civil service in Scotland and London, in the European Commission and in business. He is now a specialist partner at Flint Global, a non-executive director and an academic.

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Laura Sabogal Reyes

Laura Sabogal Reyes is a Senior Policy Advisor for E3G's Public Banks Team. Laura leads the work around E3G Public Bank Climate Tracker Matrix, which assesses how the most well-known public banks, including Multilateral and National Development Banks, are mainstreaming climate change into their work. Laura engages with banks, policy makers, academia and civil society actors globally to drive ambition at critical multilateral, bilateral and regional financial institutions.

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► COP 28 aftermath means ever more complex climate diplomacy / December 2023

Daniel Sage

Daniel is a researcher on the Policy Network and Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) project on the Social State of Europe. He is also a doctoral researcher at the University of Stirling. His main research interests are in unemployment, wellbeing, labour market policies, social attitudes to the welfare state and the politics of welfare reform. His research has been published in a range of academic journals, including the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy and the Journal of Happiness Studies.

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Mark Salter

Mark Salter is a British-Swedish analyst, researcher and consultant based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. For over 25 years he has worked on issues of conflict analysis and resolution, reconciliation and democratization in a wide variety of contexts, ranging from Central-Eastern Europe and the Balkans to West Africa and the Horn, Iraq and latterly South Asia. A BBC journalist by training, he is the author of two books: Poland – The Rough Guide, researched in 1989, published in 1991 and described at the time as ‘the first independent guide to an independent Poland’; and To End A Civil War: Norway’s Peace Engagement in Sri Lanka (Hurst, 2015), which examines in depth the Norwegian government’s efforts to mediate in Sri Lanka’s 26 year-long civil war. Currently Mark is a Visiting Research Fellow at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES), Colombo, where he is working on his next book, a contemporary history of Sri Lanka.

Articles by Mark Salter

► Sri Lanka’s Gazan lessons / February 2024

Thomas Sampson

Thomas Sampson is an Associate Professor at the London School of Economics and an Associate of the Trade programme at the Centre for Economic Performance.

Articles by Thomas Sampson

Amaia Sánchez-Cacicedo

Amaia Sánchez-Cacicedo is Non-Resident Associate Analyst in charge of the South Asia portfolio at the EU Institute for Security Studies. She contributes to the analysis of South Asian security and foreign policy with an emphasis on geo-economic and security developments across the Indian Ocean. She further monitors EU relations with South Asian countries. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and completed her PhD at the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), University of London, which culminated in her book Building States, Building Peace: Global and Regional Involvement in Sri Lanka and Myanmar (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

Articles by Amaia Sánchez-Cacicedo

► India's moment: narrative vs. reality? / February 2024

Mark Sanders

Mark Sanders is associate professor of economics of transition and sustainability at Utrecht University School of Economics. He received his Ph.D. in 2004 from Maastricht University with the dissertation Skill Biased Technical Change: Its Origins, the Interaction with the Labour Market and Policy Implications. When Mark joined the Max Planck Society Institute for Economics in Jena, Germany in 2005 he shifted his research focus to entrepreneurship economics. When he joined the Utrecht School of Economics he began to investigate the role of entrepreneurship in shaping energy transition and has bridged and combined these topics and published extensively in international peer reviewed journals. He is also a founding member of the Sustainable Finance Lab at the Utrecht School of Economics and was scientific coordinator of the FIRES-consortium 2015–2018. In addition to his academic qualifications, Mark has been an active member of the Dutch liberal-democratic party D66.

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► A reform strategy for an entrepreneurial Europe / December 2019

Laura Sandys

Laura Sandys is Member of Parliament for South Thanet and Chair of European Movement, the UK’s largest pro-European grassroots campaigning organisation. She is founder of the Food Foundation, co-founder of POWERful Women, Chair of the 2020 Productivity and Efficiency Commission and a Member of Imperial College’s Centre for Carbon Capture and Storage Advisory Group.

Articles by Laura Sandys

► Why Europe matters / March 2015

Luisa Santos

Luisa Santos is Deputy Director General at BusinessEurope, responsible for international relations. She is also Chair of the Domestic Advisory Group on the EU that monitors EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the EU private sector representative in the G20 Empower group. She was a member of the TTIP Advisory Group and of the Expert Group on EU trade agreements of the European Commission. Her principal experience is in trade and the textiles sector, having acted first as the chief representative for the Portuguese textile industry in Brussels, later as Trade and Industry Manager for Euratex - the European Apparel and Textile Confederation. She was also the manager responsible for international partnerships – including a joint venture in India – for a leading Portuguese textile company. Her academic background is law and management.

Articles by Luisa Santos

► The ‘reset’ in EU-UK relations must deliver for business / November 2024

Luigi Scazzieri

Luigi Scazzieri is a senior research fellow at the CER. He works on European foreign and security policy, focusing on the EU’s neighbourhood, migration and transatlantic relations. Luigi holds a PhD in European Politics from King's College London. Before joining the CER, Luigi carried out research at the UK in a Changing Europe Initiative at King's College London, the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

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Stefan Scheuer

Stefan Scheuer is Secretary General for the Coalition for Energy Savings. He has 12 years of experience in EU environmental and energy policy making. From 2000 to 2007 he worked at the European Environmental Bureau, latterly as its Policy Director, and was chairman of the ECOS, the EU citizens’ organisation working on greening technical standardisation.

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► Making energy saving a reality / October 2012

Daniel Schlaepfer

Daniel Schlaepfer is the President of Select Vantage Inc (SVI), and its affiliates True North Vantage Inc, Epic Vantage Inc and Elite Vantage Placement Ltd. SVI is a global leader in electronic market-making, employing over 2,700 staff in 39 countries. On any given day, the firm can trade upwards of US$3 billion on global stock markets.

Articles by Daniel Schlaepfer

► A decade on, there are four things AI regulators can learn from the crash (hint: it involves ethics) / July 2018

Gerhard Schnyder

Gerhard Schnyder is Professor of International Management & Political Economy at Loughborough University London, Project Leader of the Norface Network-funded project Populist Backlash, Democratic Backsliding, and the Crisis of the Rule of Law in the European Union (POPBACK) and a Brexit blogger.

Articles by Gerhard Schnyder

Gabriele Schöler

Gabriele Schöler is senior project manager in the Future of Europe programme of the German Bertelsmann Stiftung. Her focus is on Eastern Europe and EU neighbourhood relations.

Articles by Gabriele Schöler

► The EU neighbourhood in shambles / March 2015

Ulrich Schoof

Dr. Ulrich Schoof, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Gütersloh. As a senior project manager with the Global Economic Dynamics (GED) team Ulrich specializes on international trade and its interplay with inclusive economic growth. He has focused on the effects of free trade agreements and initiatives such as the TTIP, TPP or the EU single market.

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► Brexit – a losing deal for everybody / April 2015

Peter Schrank

Swiss-born Peter Schrank is an internationally award winning political cartoonist, was political cartoonist for The Independent on Sunday, and more occasionally the Independent, from 1995 to 2016. He continues to work for Basler Zeitung (Switzerland) and The Sunday Business Post (Ireland), and is also also a regular contributor to the Economist. His work is internationally syndicated by The New York Times Syndicate (www.nytsyn.com/cartoons). Currently his work can be seen in The Best of Britain’s Political Cartoons of 2016 published by Random House.

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Leonard August Schuette

Leonard August Schuette is a PhD researcher at the University of Maastricht. He was previously Clara O’Donnell Fellow at the Centre for European Reform and graduate student at the University of Cambridge. His research focusses on NATO, EU foreign policy, and Brexit.

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► NATO’s 2% target needs replacing / April 2021

Thomas Schwab

Thomas Schwab is Senior Expert for European Economics at the Bertelsmann Stiftung in Germany. He focuses on analysing European economic policy with a particular emphasis on territorial inequalities and co-authored several studies on economic cohesion within the context of the green and digital transition. He studied economics in Vienna, Berlin, and Mannheim, where he defended his PhD thesis at the University of Mannheim.

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► The renewable energy transition can reduce economic disparities in Europe / July 2024

Alex Scott

Alex Scott is E3G’s Climate Diplomacy and Geopolitics Programme Lead. Her work focusses on devising strategies to foster greater global cooperation on climate action and mobilising governments and NGOs to deliver them. Alex leads E3G teams to map the geopolitical landscape and coordinate diplomatic strategy across sectoral issues and between governments and NGO networks. Her areas of expertise include global governance, UNFCCC politics, and vertical policy integration.

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Terry Scuoler

Terry Scuoler became CEO of the Engineering Employers Federation (EEF) in March 2010 with a vision and commitment to take part in a renewed interest and resurgence in the UK’s manufacturing and engineering sectors. He also sits on the Boards of SEMTA, the Sector Skills Council for Manufacturing, the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Institute (AMI) and is a member of the Apprentice Ambassador Network and a number of other high level Industry Advisory Boards and Committees.

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► Industry wants a more competitive Europe / April 2014

Algirdas Šemeta

Algirdas Šemeta is the European Commissioner for Taxation, Customs Union, Audit and Anti-Fraud

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► Financial transactions tax: a contributor to growth / May 2012

Michael Shank

Dr. Michael Shank is the director of engagement for the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance.

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► How cities are getting hyper-local to solve the massive challenges of climate change / April 2023

Jeremy Shapiro

Jeremy Shapiro is the research director of the European Council on Foreign Relations. His areas of focus include US foreign policy and transatlantic relations. He was previously a fellow with the Project on International Order and Strategy and the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings, where he edited the Foreign Policy program's blog Order from Chaos. Prior to Brookings, he was a member of the U.S. State Department’s policy planning staff, where he advised the secretary of state on U.S. policy in North Africa and the Levant. He was also the senior advisor to Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Gordon, providing strategic guidance on a wide variety of U.S.-European foreign policy issues.

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► A player not a pawn: how Europe can regain strategic sovereignty / December 2019

Vanika Sharma

Vanika Sharma is a Researcher at ECIPE. She is a Master’s graduate from Sciences Po, Paris in International Economic Policy with concentrations in Global Risks and East Asia. Vanika also holds an undergraduate degree in Economics (Honors) from the University of Delhi. She has previously worked on research projects with UNDP China, Rhodium Group, and UNESCAP, and currently is a professor of Statistics at Sciences Po – Le Havre. Her research interests lie in international trade for development, with a focus on trade dependencies.

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Darren Sharpe

Dr Darren Sharpe is a Senior Research Fellow with the NIHR CLAHRC North Thames based within the Institute of Health and Human Development, University of East London. His interests include participatory research with children, young people and vulnerable adults in health, social care, education and citizenship.

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► UK young voters are not anti EU but just don't understand it / April 2016

Jim Shaughnessy

Jim Shaughnessy is executive vice president for corporate affairs at Workday, responsible for the company’s work across policy and public affairs and its corporate tech-for-good initiatives. He has more than 25 years of experience as a strategic legal and business executive for leading technology companies. He served as Workday’s General Counsel from 2011 to 2019, and previously was general counsel at PeopleSoft, Lenovo Group, and Orbitz Worldwide. Jim has also held senior legal positions at Hewlett-Packard, Compaq Computer, and Digital Equipment. Over his career, Jim has had responsibility for public policy, government affairs, and other business functions in addition to his legal roles.

Articles by Jim Shaughnessy

► Trustworthy-By-Design: a path towards flexible and innovation-friendly regulation on Artificial Intelligence / February 2021

Alexander Shea

Alexander is a recent graduate with an MPhil in International Relations from St. Antony's College, Oxford. He is currently pursuing opportunities as a journalist and political commentator. Twitter @alexander_shea

Articles by Alexander Shea

► Did we vote Brexit out of existential boredom? / June 2016

Marcus Shepheard

Marcus Shepheard joined the Institute for Government in April 2017 from the Royal Society where he worked on a range of projects covering cybersecurity, computing education and foresight. He has also worked for the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology.

Articles by Marcus Shepheard

► Technology and customs after Brexit / September 2017

Michelle Shevin-Coetzee

Michelle Shevin-Coetzee is a Research Assistant at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA). Prior to joining CSBA, she was a researcher with the Center for a New American Security where she focused on the transatlantic relationship. Michelle also serves as the vice president of the Women in International Security DC chapter.

Articles by Michelle Shevin-Coetzee

► Three ways to negotiate a secure Brexit for Britain and the EU / April 2017

Jonny Shipp

Jonny Shipp is a Brussels-based advisor on strategy, leadership, and digital policy. He founded the Internet Commission in 2017 and was its Executive Chair until it joined the Trust Alliance Group in 2022. Partnership builder, strategist, and cross-disciplinary thinker, Jonny is known for building international teams and delivering influential public policy initiatives. He is a Visiting Fellow in Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and served six years as Vice-Chair of the Internet Watch Foundation.

Articles by Jonny Shipp

Dorota Sienkiewicz

Dorota Sienkiewicz joined the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) in May 2009 where currently she works as Health Equity and Policy Coherence Coordinator, contributing to its overall activities by providing policy and advocacy work in the field of health challenges from a social and economic perspective and impact of EU policies on health equity in Europe and beyond.

Articles by Dorota Sienkiewicz

► The EU and a secure and adequate food system / September 2014

Anthony Silberfeld

Tony Silberfeld joined the Bertelsmann Foundation in April 2014 after seven years at the British Embassy's Northern Ireland Bureau in Washington, DC. As head of political and public affairs at the Bureau, Tony was responsible for representing Northern Ireland before city, state/provincial and federal bodies in the Americas. He also served as Northern Ireland government spokesman in the Americas and advised Northern Ireland's ministers on political developments in the US, Canada and Brazil. Prior to his tenure at the embassy, Tony spent several years in the US Senate and the House of Representatives. He worked on foreign-policy and trade issues, with a particular focus on trans-Atlantic relations. He began his career in the office of Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), then moved across Capitol Hill to advise Congressman Joseph Crowley (D-NY) in his position on the House Subcommittee on Europe.

Articles by Anthony Silberfeld

► The elephant in the room: a Republican Congress and transatlantic relations / November 2014

Simon Skillings

Simon Skillings has 25 years experience working in the energy industry. Much of this time has been spent in a variety of strategic, regulatory and policy roles for Powergen and E.ON UK, culminating in a 5 year period spent as Director of Strategy and Energy Policy.

In 2007, he established his own energy consulting company, Trilemma UK Ltd., and has subsequently provided advice on investment and policy issues for a range of private companies, UK Government and the regulator OFGEM. He is an Honorary Fellow, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Exeter, and was formerly a member of the Boards of the Association of Electricity Producers and the UK Business Council for Sustainable Energy.

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► Demand response and Europe's energy market / May 2013

Linda Slapakova

Linda Slapakova is an analyst with RAND Europe and its Centre for Futures and Foresight Studies which explores potential futures of impacts of emerging technologies, among other activities. Prior to joining RAND Europe, Slapakova conducted research on peacekeeping, conflict resolution and counter-terrorism with organisations in Brussels and the UK including the Crime Terror Nexus Project, the Institute for Economics and Peace, and the Centre for European Policy Studies.

Articles by Linda Slapakova

► How the EU can overcome barriers to using Artificial Intelligence in border security and beyond / May 2021

Andrew Small

Andrew Small is a senior transatlantic fellow with the Asia program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and an associate senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He previously worked as the director of the Foreign Policy Centre's Beijing office; as a visiting fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and was an ESU scholar in the office of Senator Edward M. Kennedy. He is the author of the ECFR paper The Meaning of Systemic Rivalry: Europe and China beyond the pandemic.

Articles by Andrew Small

► Europe and China’s systemic rivalry beyond the pandemic / July 2020

Tony Smith

Tony Smith CBE is a former Director General of the UK Border Force, Managing Director of Fortinus Global Ltd, and Chairman of the International Border Management and Technologies Association (IBMATA).

Articles by Tony Smith

► Implementing the Northern Ireland Protocol requires principles more than politics / May 2020

Elta Smith

Elta Smith is a research leader at RAND Europe. She has 12 years of experience in policy evaluation in the areas of science and food policy. Prior to joining RAND, Elta worked with a number UK, EU and international bodies and holds a Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University.

Articles by Elta Smith

► Europe's fight against antimicrobial resistance / November 2016

Sarah Snelson

Sarah Snelson is a Director in Frontier Economics’ public policy practice, where she advises clients across the private and public sectors on policy design, policy influence, policy impact and value for money. Her particular passions are disentangling the effect of policy in cases where the counterfactual is far from obvious and analysing the impact of competition within public sector markets or of public policy on private markets. She has led projects for major government departments in the UK and for clients abroad with a particular emphasis on issues related to digital technology, innovation and skills.

Articles by Sarah Snelson

► The EU’s risky curbs on data flows / March 2022

Giuseppe Spatafora

Giuseppe Spatafora is an Associate Analyst at the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), where he leads the portfolio on transatlantic and EU-NATO relations. In this capacity, he monitors trends and policy developments related to EU-US and NATO-EU relations, as well as the broader transatlantic relationship, covering the full range of security challenges. Before joining the EUISS, Giuseppe worked at NATO’s Policy Planning Unit, in the Office of the Secretary General. Giuseppe is completing a PhD at the University of Oxford. His dissertation focuses on external support and foreign intervention. He has authored articles and book chapters on proxy wars, NATO and European security.

Articles by Giuseppe Spatafora

► NATO’s Washington Summit: Between expectations and reality – and how the EU can bridge the gap / July 2024

Anton Spisak

Anton Spisak is a policy lead at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, where he is leading the Institute’s work on Brexit and trade policy. He was previously a UK civil servant working on the Brexit negotiations, in the Cabinet Office and Department for Exiting the EU.

Articles by Anton Spisak

► Three crucial steps to make the Northern Ireland Protocol work / March 2021

John Springford

John Springford is Associate Fellow at the Centre for European Reform. He works on primarily on Brexit, trade and the single market.

Articles by John Springford

Sanj Srikanthan

Sanj Srikanthan is Senior Vice President Europe, and Executive Director UK, at the International Rescue Committee. He leads the IRC’s work in Europe to drive for durable solutions to the crisis of global displacement, including the resettlement of refugees, and addressing root causes of conflict, fragility and poverty. Sanj has worked in over 8 countries in response to both natural disasters, like the Haiti earthquake and Ebola outbreak, as well as complex conflict related emergencies in northern Syria, Mali and South Sudan. As the former Emergency Field Director, he has been at the forefront of some of the most challenging responses that IRC has mounted, and supports initiatives to reform humanitarian response, in order to improve impact and effectiveness of the aid sector. Prior to joining the IRC, Sanj served as a British Army Officer for 7 years.

Articles by Sanj Srikanthan

► Venezuelans need more than expression of solidarity / November 2019

Jeffrey Stacey

Dr Jeffrey Stacey is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Johns Hopkins University's Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC

Articles by Jeffrey Stacey

► The West's coming joint security trap: don't go Dutch / January 2012

Henry Stanek

Henry Stanek is an independent consultant based in Paris, having worked extensively with EU institutions throughout his career. His thematic and geographical interests include transatlantic relations and Eastern Europe, where he was born and raised.

Articles by Henry Stanek

Joshua Stanton

Joshua Stanton has served as project manager for the trans-Atlantic relations team since joining the Bertelsmann Foundation in 2012. He has contributed to numerous Foundation publications, including Field Manual to Europe: Ten Memos for the New US Administration and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP): On Track, But Off Message? . Josh's writings have also appeared in the Journal of International Service, Fletcher Forum of World Affairs , and Policy Review. He is the lead project manager for the TTIP Town Hall program, an information and awareness-raising program that highlights the local and regional impact of a potential trans-Atlantic free-trade agreement while expanding beyond Washington, DC the debate and discussion on TTIP.

Articles by Joshua Stanton

► The elephant in the room: a Republican Congress and transatlantic relations / November 2014

Stefano Stefanini

Stefano Stefanini is Senior Advisor to the Podesta Group, Washington and Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Brent Scowcroft Center for International Security, Atlantic Council, Washington. He has been Diplomatic Advisor to the President of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano, Italian Permanent Representative at NATO and Deputy Chief of Mission at the Italian Embassy in Washington. He had served in New York, United Nations; Moscow; Washington; Perth, Western Australia.

Articles by Stefano Stefanini

► Italy and NATO / August 2014

Philip Stephens

Philip Stephens is a writer and contributing editor at the FT. His Inside-Out column can be found at philipstephens.substack.com

Articles by Philip Stephens

Ernst Stetter

Ernst Stetter is an economist by profession and was the founding secretary-general of the Brussels based European Foundation for Progressive Studies (FEPS) (2008–2019). Ernst Stetter is the editor of several books on progressive social and economic policies and regularly analyses European issues in the media. He was also director of the Paris and Brussels offices, the Africa and Central Europe departments at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Germany.

Articles by Ernst Stetter

Rosalind Stevens

Rosalind Stevens is the Project Manager responsible for establishing a new Civil Society Alliance. Rosalind has substantial expertise in developing and implementing regulation and policy in a domestic and EU context, specialising in consumer/citizen rights and access to justice

Articles by Rosalind Stevens

Philip Stevens

Philip is executive director of Geneva Network, which he founded in 2015. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs, Malaysia. His main research interests are the intersection of intellectual property, trade and health policy. He has worked for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, where he worked in its Global Challenges Division on a range of IP and health issues.

Articles by Philip Stevens

Katherine Stewart

Katherine Stewart is a policy analyst at RAND Europe, working primarily in the areas of social policy and technology. At RAND Europe she has contributed to projects for a range of European clients, including the European Commission and OECD. Her research interests include public administration and governance, and the impact of emerging technologies on the labour market.

Articles by Katherine Stewart

Catherine Stihler

Catherine Stihler OBE has been an international champion for openness as a
legislator and practitioner for over 20 years. She stood for election as a Member of the European Parliament for Scotland in
1999, representing the Labour Party. At the European Parliament she became
one of Scotland’s longest-serving and most respected legislators.
Catherine was elected Vice-Chair of the European Parliament’s Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee, founded the Campaign for Parliamentary Reform and the parliament’s All-Party Library Group, and was instrumental in securing graphic health warnings on cigarette packets across the EU. In 2019, Catherine was awarded an OBE by Her Majesty the Queen in recognition of her services to politics. That same year, she stood down from the European Parliament to become the chief executive officer of the Open Knowledge Foundation. During her 18-month tenure at the Foundation Catherine redefined its vision and mission to produce a new strategic direction, reengage its global chapters and increase the worldwide profile of the organisation. In August 2020, Catherine was appointed chief executive officer of Creative Commons, a non-profit organisation that helps overcome legal obstacles to the sharing of knowledge and creativity to address the world’s pressing challenges. She was selected to the Fellowship of Scotland’s national academy, the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) in 2022.

Articles by Catherine Stihler

► How and why the EU’s Data Act will have an impact beyond European borders / June 2022

Sam Stockwell

Sam Stockwell is a research assistant at RAND Europe working in defence, security and infrastructure. His research interests include terrorism and counter-terrorism, cybersecurity, emerging technologies in conflict environments and space security. Prior to RAND, Stockwell worked at The Henry Jackson Society, a security think tank, where he studied the impact of coronavirus on online extremist content.

Articles by Sam Stockwell

► The implications for human rights in the digital age / September 2021

Lara Stoimenova

Dr Lara Stoimenova is a competition and regulatory policy expert with significant experience in public and private sectors. She has experience in a wide range of industry sectors (including telecoms and digital) and an in-depth understanding of the political and strategic context of each. She is the founder and managing director of Sigma Economics, providing advice to firms wishing to influence the competition and regulatory environment they operate in. She is also an independent member on the board of the Jersey Competition Regulatory Authority and chair of its Audit and Risk Committee. She was an inquiry director in the Markets and Mergers Directorate of the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), leading various market investigations and internal strategic projects. She was also a member of the CMA’s Senior Leadership Team and Operations Board. Before joining the CMA, she worked for the UK's communications regulator, Ofcom, where she was a programme director with expertise in European and UK telecommunications policy and chair of the BEREC expert working group on Remedies. Currently she also works in collaboration with DT Economics as associate partner and is a trustee at Reform, a think tank dedicated to making public services in the UK better and smarter.

Articles by Lara Stoimenova

► Mind the gap: how the UK and the EU can narrow the gap in their approaches to regulate digital services / June 2021

Bruce Stokes

Bruce Stokes is the executive director of the Transatlantic Task Force: Together or Alone? Choices and Strategies for Transatlantic Relations for 2021 and Beyond. Previously, he was the director of Global Economic Attitudes at the Pew Research Center in Washington, DC, where he created and helped author Pew’s annual global attitudes survey. He is a former international economics correspondent for the National Journal, a Washington-based public policy magazine. He is also a former senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he is a member, and is currently an associate fellow at Chatham House. He is co-author of the book America Against the World: How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked (Times Books, 2006), and author of numerous German Marshall Fund and Council on Foreign Relations studies.

Articles by Bruce Stokes

Paula Surridge

Paula Surridge is Deputy Director at UK in a Changing Europe and Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol. She works on social and political values, public opinion, education and social inequalities. She has written extensively on the role of political values in recent elections.

Articles by Paula Surridge

► What will post Brexit identities mean for Britain’s future relationship with the EU? / May 2021

Ulf Sverdrup

Ulf Sverdrup, is the Director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). He was a professor at the Norwegian Business School BI, and a research professor at ARENA, Centre for European Studies, at the University of Oslo. Sverdrup was also the Head of the Secretariat for the Official Norwegian Europe Review (NOU 2012:2) which assessed the impacts and implications of Norway’s agreements with the EU.

Articles by Ulf Sverdrup

► Lobbying the EU after Brexit / April 2021

Graeme Sweeney

Dr. Graeme Sweeney is a leading authority on energy, fuels and climate change, drawing on his extensive international experience across all aspects of the oil, gas and renewable industries.

He is currently Chairman of the Advisory Council of the European Technology Platform of Zero Emission Fossil Fuels Power Plants (ZEP). ZEP's unique coalition of stakeholders (utilities, petroleum companies, equipment suppliers, scientists, academics and environmental NGOs) have been instrumental in the development of the EU Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Demonstration programme, providing expert advice to the European Commission on all technical, technology, policy, commercial and other related issues.

Dr. Sweeney’s is the co-chair of the European Union’s CCS Project Network Advisory Forum and a founding member of the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute. He also serves on the advisory board of the University of California (Davis) Institute of Transportation Studies; is a member of the Prince of Wales' Corporate Leaders Group and chairs the Advisory Board of the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC).

Articles by Graeme Sweeney

► Demonstrating and deploying Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) / November 2012

Pawel Świeboda

Paweł Świeboda is Senior Visiting Fellow at the European Policy Centre where he co-leads Strategic Project on Europe’s Economic Security. He is also Founder of NeuroCentury, Practice Lead Neurotechnology at the International Centre for Future Generations, and Senior Advisor at FIPRA. In his previous roles, he had worked in the Polish government, at the European Commission and in science management.

Articles by Pawel Świeboda

► Economic Security must become part of Europe’s new DNA / March 2024

Nicole Sykes

Nicole Sykes is CBI Head of EU Negotiations where she has responsibility for the CBI’s work on Brexit and the negotiation of the future trading relationship between the UK and EU. Her team works with businesses of all sizes to develop post-Brexit policy on customs, regulation and services trade, as well to support companies to understand how negotiations are progressing. She works closely with the governments in the UK and the EU. She has worked at the CBI since 2015. Prior to this, Nicole worked on political campaigns, while outside the CBI she has worked for Microsoft UK and is a trustee of a development charity working across Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

Articles by Nicole Sykes

► Brexit and business confidence / May 2020

István Szent-Iványi

István Szent-Iványi is a Hungarian politician, Hungarian Ambassador to Slovenia, founding member of the Alliance of Free Democrats political party, and former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Alliance of Free Democrats, part of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party. He was chief foreign policy advisor to the Hungarian Liberal Party between October 2015 and April 2018. Previously, he served four terms as MP in the Hungarian National Assembly (1990-2004) being chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (1997-2002) and the Committee on European Integration (2002-04). He is a founding member of the Alliance of Free Democrats (1988), was twice its Group leader in the National Assembly (1997-1998, 2000-2002), and he has been a member of its executive board for several years. He was Secretary of State (deputy minister) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1994-97.

Articles by István Szent-Iványi

► Hungary’s weaponising of the coronavirus crisis / March 2020

Paolo Tancredi

Paolo Tancredi is a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and Vice Chairman of the Committee overseeing all the European Union Policies within the Chamber. In addition, he is also a member of the Italian Commission “Internet Bill of Rights”. An electronic engineer by training, he is also member of the Presidency’s office of NCD (Centre-right party currently in Government).

Articles by Paolo Tancredi

Thierry Tardy

Thierry Tardy is the Director of the Research Division at the NATO Defense College. He is also Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. His research and teaching areas cover NATO’s policy and adaptation, European security, the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), NATO-EU relations, the politics of crisis management, and UN peace operations. He has recently published French Interventions in Africa. Reluctant multilateralism (ed. with S. Recchia, London, Routledge, 2021). He tweets @thierrytardy.

Articles by Thierry Tardy

► What division of tasks between the EU, NATO, and states? / March 2021

Andy Tarrant

Dr Andy Tarrant is Director of EU Affairs and Public Policy at Whitehouse Communications Ltd. He has previously worked for B&CE Ltd, Herbert Smith solicitors, the UK telecommunications regulator, British Telecommunications Plc, the European Competitive Telecommunications Association and as an adviser to Labour’s shadow Europe and Pensions ministers.

Articles by Andy Tarrant

Jirka Taylor

Jirka Taylor is an analyst at RAND Europe working primarily in the area of communities, safety and justice. Prior to joining RAND, Taylor was an analyst for the Association for International Affairs, a Prague-based organisation. He earned his M.A. in American studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague and his M.Phil. in international relations at the University of Cambridge. He has been a visiting student at Georgetown University and the University of Washington in Seattle and worked for the Office of the President at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Articles by Jirka Taylor

Paul Taylor

Paul Taylor is a senior fellow at the Friends of Europe think-tank and writes the “Europe at Large” column for POLITICO. He was previously a correspondent for Reuters, the international news agency, for 39 years. He has published a series of reports on European defence and security issues for Friends of Europe since 2017, most recently Crossing the Wilderness - Europe and the Sahel (May 2021). He is now working on a study on the Black Sea and European security to be published in January 2022. Paul studied History and Modern Languages at Balliol College, Oxford, before joining Reuters as a graduate trainee in 1977. Over nearly four decades, he specialized in European politics and economics, defence and diplomacy, and the Middle East. He has worked in London, Paris, Tehran, Bonn, Brussels, Jerusalem, Berlin and Cairo. From 2008-16 he also wrote the “Inside Europe” column for the International New York Times.

Articles by Paul Taylor

► Ambition collides with reality in the EU's Sahel strategy / June 2021

Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor is a journalist with over 25 years’ experience covering the EU. During that time, he worked for European Voice (the predecessor of Politico) as news editor and senior reporter and several UK broadsheet newspapers including the Times, the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian. He has also worked for specialist policy media including MLex (competition and antitrust) where he covered Brexit.

Articles by Simon Taylor

► VDL 2.0: A lesson in herding cats / September 2024

Feodora Teti

Feodora Teti is a trade economist at the ifo Center for International Economics in Munich. Her research focuses on trade policy, particularly tariffs and rules of origin, and she has contributed to policy consultancy projects for organisations including the German Ministry of Economics and Energy and the World Bank.

Articles by Feodora Teti

► No-deal Brexit has drastic implications for UK firms reliant on EU27 supply chains / October 2020

Renaud Thillaye

Renaud Thillaye is Manager at Flint Global and Research Associate at Policy Network.

Articles by Renaud Thillaye

Apostolos Thomadakis

Dr. Apostolos Thomadakis is Head of Research at the European Capital Markets Institute (ECMI), an independent research institute run by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). His work focuses on issues related to capital markets, financial markets and services, financial and securities regulation. He has completed many research projects on derivatives, access to capital, SMEs financing, CMU, financial instruments, financial services and regulation for European institutions and associations. Prior to joining ECMI, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Bank of Lithuania (BoL) and the Austrian National Bank (OeNB), while he worked for the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Central Bank (ECB). Apostolos has held academic positions at the University of Warwick, London School of Economics, University of Bath, and the University of Surrey. He holds a PhD from the University of Surrey.

Articles by Apostolos Thomadakis

David Thomas

David Thomas is MNI euro zone correspondent, based in Brussels. He formerly worked for Deutsche Boerse in a communications role and was also head of communications for WFE, the global exchange industry association.
He was previously Brussels bureau chief for Knight-Ridder Financial and later for BridgeNews, covering the run-up to and launch of the single currency in 1999 and the euro’s challenging early years.

Articles by David Thomas

Aaron Tielemans

Aaron Tielemans is a senior project coordinator and research assistant in the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings. He oversees operations and research projects for the Forum for Cooperation on Artificial Intelligence (FCAI). He conducts additional research on critical and emerging technologies, AI policy and digital trade policy. He previously worked at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) where he supported multistakeholder collaboration and knowledge-sharing to prevent the exploitation of digital platforms by terrorists and violent extremists.

Articles by Aaron Tielemans

► The EU AI Act: its international implications for AI policy development and cooperation / September 2022

Brooks Tigner

Brooks Tigner is EU/NATO Affairs correspondent in Brussels for Jane’s Defence Weekly. He has reported on foreign, security, defence and military issues across Europe for nearly three decades – from the post-Cold War’s impact on NATO and its subsequent expansion, to the EU’s growing role in security and defence. Brooks regularly covers cyber-security, , defence research, dual-use technologies, and policy implications that cut across all these domains. He has moderated many international security and defence-oriented conferences. Author of Pick-up Sticks, a social crime novel set in 1960s small-town Texas, Brooks is working on a new social comedy novel set in New York during the Reagan years.

Articles by Brooks Tigner

► Time to expose the glorious Potemkin Village of teleworking / June 2021

Simon Tilford

Simon Tilford works on the political economy of the eurozone, the economics of populism, financial reform, corporate governance and taxation. He is currently chief economist at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change but will be joining Chatham House’s Global Economy and Finance Department in December 2018.

Articles by Simon Tilford

Paul Timmers

Prof Dr Paul Timmers is research associate at the University of Oxford (Oxford Internet Institute), adjunct professor at the European University Cyprus, visiting professor at Rijeka University, and CEO of iivii BV. He is a former Director at the European Commission Directorate for Digital Society, Trust and Cybersecurity. Contact: paul.timmers(at)iivii.eu.

Articles by Paul Timmers

Brendan Tobin

Brendan Tobin is Head of Growth at Ecanvasser. He has worked on over 2000 political campaigns across 70 countries promoting technology in politics to increase voter contact and representation.

Articles by Brendan Tobin

Jennifer Tollmann

Jennifer Tollmann is a Policy Advisor in E3G’s Climate Diplomacy team based in Berlin. E3G’s Climate Diplomacy programme focuses on how to construct high leverage political interventions which can shape transformational international outcomes.

Articles by Jennifer Tollmann

► Climate action after COVID-19 / April 2020

Baudilio Tomé Muguruza

Baudilio Tomé Muguruza has been a member of the European Court of Auditors since 2012. He led the audit on disinformation, whose findings are described in the report “Disinformation affecting the EU: tackled but not tamed”. An economist and a jurist by academic background, he has covered various positions in the Spanish civil service since 1986, and has served as Member of the Spanish Parliament from 2004 to 2012.

Articles by Baudilio Tomé Muguruza

► More and better coordination among all stakeholders is needed in the fight against disinformation / June 2021

Phil Tomlinson

Phil Tomlinson is Professor of Industrial Strategy and Deputy Director of the Centre for Governance, Regulation & Industrial Strategy (CGR&IS) in the School of Management, University of Bath. He is a Fellow of the Regional Studies Association (RSA) and Editor of the RSA Policy Expo Book series. He has published widely on industrial strategy and regional development, and his work has been received by the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Department for Transport, NESTA, Innovate UK, The TUC, Industry Trade Associations and other business and regional organisations. He has also addressed All Parliamentary Manufacturing Group of MPs on industrial and innovation policy and given presentations at the UK Houses of Parliament and the EU Commission. He was appointed to the independent review panel for Swindon and Wiltshire LEPs local industrial strategy, and currently sits on the West of England Combined Authority’s Skills Advisory Panel. His recent co-edited policy-facing book ‘Revitalising Lagging Regions: Smart Specialisation and Industry 4.0’ (2019) was published by Taylor and Francis as part of the RSA Policy Expo series.

Articles by Phil Tomlinson

► Industrial strategy beyond Brexit / February 2021

Sander Tordoir

Sander Tordoir is senior economist at the Centre for European Reform. Sander works on eurozone monetary and fiscal policy, the institutional architecture of EMU, European integration as well as Germany’s role in the EU.

Prior to joining the CER, Sander worked as an advisor to the ECB Representative at the International Monetary Fund, covering the IMF’s surveillance of euro area policies and sovereign debt issues. Before his posting in Washington, he was an economist in the ECB’s EU Institutions and Fora Division, where he focused on the EU’s policy response to the Covid-19 pandemic, economic and fiscal governance, Banking Union, ESM reform and the ECB’s relations with other EU institutions. Sander was also a seconded expert to the German Federal Finance Ministry and a consultant at the World Bank. His policy research has been cited in media outlets such as the Financial Times, The Economist, and The New Statesman. Sander studied at Amsterdam University College and Columbia University, where he was a Fulbright scholar.

Articles by Sander Tordoir

Marco Torregrossa

Marco Torregrossa is Secretary General at the European Forum of Independent Professionals, a European association advocating for policy, business and society to become more conducive to the self-employed way of working. Formerly policy officer at the EU Commission and a lawyer by training, Marco is specialised in collaborative self-employment, co-operative entrepreneurship, digital work on platforms and the impacts of flexible labour regulations on the future of work.

Articles by Marco Torregrossa

► How European solopreneurs are creating the future of work / January 2016

Lorenzo Torti

Lorenzo Torti is currently a Manager at Flint, where he advises clients on EU politics and policy. Before joining Flint, Lorenzo was a Senior Policy Analyst at Fiscal Note Europe. He also worked at the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU and the European Climate Foundation and in the Italian and US diplomatic services.

Articles by Lorenzo Torti

Jocelyn Trainer

Jocelyn Trainer is a Research Assistant for the Energy, Economics, and Security Program at CNAS. She analyzes developments and trends in sanctions policy and evasion tactics, illicit financial crime, and efforts to combat corruption and human rights abuses

Articles by Jocelyn Trainer

► Unintended consequences of U.S. industrial policies: discord in the transatlantic alliance / December 2022

Florian Trauner

Florian Trauner teaches EU politics and migration policy-making at the Vrjie Universiteit Brussel (VUB). He also co-directs the VUB's Interdisciplinary Centre of Expertise on Migration and Minorities (BIRMM). His research concerns the European integration process with a focus on EU asylum, migration and return as well as the EU’s relations with third countries. Florian Trauner is a regular Visiting Professor at the College of Europe and has acted as an external expert for different EU institutions and UN bodies.

Articles by Florian Trauner

► The EU’s new asylum strategy: can the competition of member states be stopped? / December 2023

Ketevan Tsikhelashvili

Ketevan Tsikhelashvili is the State Minister of Georgia for Reconciliation and Civic Equality. Prior to undertaking this position in August 2016, she served as the State Ministry for Reconciliation and Civil Equality’s First Deputy Minister. Before this position, she was the elected chairwoman of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum Georgian National Platform, the largest association of the prominent Non Governmental organizations in Georgia. She was the founder and director of the think tank, Liberal Academy Tbilisi that advocates for Georgia's European integration and the representative and consultant to the German Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Georgia and the South Caucasus for eight years.

Articles by Ketevan Tsikhelashvili

► Europe must continue to stand with Georgia against Russia’s regional aggression / September 2016

Christian Turner

Christian Turner is a Junior Fellow at the Centre for Britain and Europe (CBE) at the University of Surrey. He is a former civil servant with experience of working on no-deal Brexit preparations and Rules of Origin and Tariffs. He has previously worked as a research analyst at the Centre for European Studies (CEFEUS) at Canterbury Christ Church University and as a policy advisor at the UK Chamber of Shipping.

Articles by Christian Turner

Christian Turner

Christian Turner is a PhD Candidate at the Centre for Britain and Europe, based within the Department of Politics at the University of Surrey. His research examines post-Brexit British Foreign Policy through formal and informal alliances, with a particular focus on UK-France relations, the E3 (UK, France, Germany), Global Britain and the Indo-Pacific tilt. He has previously worked extensively on Brexit, both within Whitehall and as a researcher at the Centre for European Studies (CEFEUS) at Canterbury Christ Church University.

Articles by Christian Turner

► Will they or won’t they? Britain’s lukewarm support for the European Political Community / July 2022

Sinan Ulgen

Sinan Ulgen is the executive chairman of the Istanbul based EDAM think tank and a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe. He is the author of the recent Carnegie Europe report “Governing Cyberspace : A roadmap for transatlantic leadership” http://carnegieeurope.eu/2016/01/18/governing-cyberspace-road-map-for-transatlantic-leadership/issk. Follow him at @sinanulgen1

Articles by Sinan Ulgen

► Better rule making for cyberspace will require bridging the transatlantic divide / June 2016

Simon Usherwood

Simon Usherwood is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the Open University, and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Surrey’s Centre for Britain and Europe. His research on euroscepticism and on EU-UK relations has lead to numerous publications (including the OUP’s Very Short Introduction to the EU) and work with politicians, media outlets and public audiences across Europe. He has been the Chair of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies since September 2021. For more information, visit www.simonusherwood.com

Articles by Simon Usherwood

Tomáš Valášek

Tomáš Valášek is a senior fellow at Carnegie Europe, where his research focuses on security and defense, transatlantic relations, and Central European affairs. Previously, he served as the Permanent Representative of the Slovak Republic to NATO for nearly four years and, before that, he was president of the Central European Policy Institute in Bratislava (2012–2013), director of foreign policy and defense at the Centre for European Reform in London (2007–2012), and founder and director of the Brussels office of the World Security Institute (2002–2006). In 2006–2007, he served as acting political director and head of the security and defense policy division at the Slovak Ministry of Defense.

Articles by Tomáš Valášek

João Vale de Almeida

João Vale de Almeida is a diplomat at the European External Action Service. He was the EU Ambassador to the US until 2014 and will take his new function as Ambassador to the UN in New York in October. This article contains personal opinions and does not necessarily reflect the positions of the European Union.

Articles by João Vale de Almeida

Erik van der Marel

Erik van der Marel is a Senior Economist at ECIPE, lecturer at the ULB Solvay Brussels School and consultant economist for the World Bank. His areas of expertise are in international trade, trade in services and services regulations, digital trade, and productivity. Prior to his appointment at ECIPE, Erik was a lecturer at the London School of Economics and in the past gained various experiences as a consultant for the European Commission, OECD, APEC and as a visiting researcher at the World Bank’s trade research department.

Articles by Erik van der Marel

John Van Reenen

John Van Reenen has been the Director of the Centre of Economic Performance and a Professor of Economics at LSE since 2003. He is now moving to be a tenured Professor at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT) jointly in the Department of Economics and the Sloan School of Management. His most recent publications are a book on the long-term economic effects of Brexit, on innovation and climate change and on productivity and trade.

Articles by John Van Reenen

► The aftermath of the Brexit vote – the verdict from a derided expert / August 2016

Rodrigo Vaz

Rodrigo Vaz is an EU policy analyst and consultant, currently based in Lisbon. He has served as Deputy Attaché in the Portuguese Permanent Representation to the EU. He has degrees from both College of Europe and SOAS University of London. He focuses on foreign policy, mobility and digital affairs.

Articles by Rodrigo Vaz

► The European centre-left needs to clarify its ideology / July 2023

Tony Venables

Tony Venables is the Founder of ECIT — a foundation working on European Citizenship. He started his career as a European civil servant, before heading up the consumer group BEUC (European Bureau of Consumer Unions) and setting up ECAS (European Citizen Action Service). He is the author of the book Piecing Together Europe’s Citizenship.

Articles by Tony Venables

Stijn Verhelst

Stijn Verhelst is Senior Research Fellow at Egmont – The Royal Institute for International Relations. He joined the European Affairs Program of Egmont – The Royal Institute for International Relations in November 2009. He became Senior Research Fellow in January 2012. He has published extensively on the eurozone sovereign crisis and the Banking Union project. He obtained a Master’s Degree in Political Science (2007) and a Master’s Degree in Business Economics (2008), both from Ghent University and a Master’s Degree in European Law from Université Paris-Sud (2009).

Articles by Stijn Verhelst

► Preparing the Banking Union for the next crisis / September 2013

Miguel Verzbolovskis

Miguel Verzbolovskis has served in different capacities in the Panamanian government, including at the Finance Ministry, the Canal Authority, and the Foreign Service. He was part of the team that helped create the nation’s sovereign wealth fund and, more recently, was posted in Brussels as Ambassador to Belgium and to the EU.

Articles by Miguel Verzbolovskis

► The economic consequences of Face-Saving / April 2021

Reinhilde Veugelers

Prof Dr. Reinhilde Veugelers is a Senior fellow at Bruegel whose activities include coordinating research in the area of competition, innovation and sustainable growth. She is a professor at KULeuven (BE) at the Faculty of Economics and Business, where she teaches international business economics and game theory. From 2004-2008, she was on academic leave, as advisor at the European Commission (BEPA). She is currently a CEPR Research Fellow and a member of Commissioner Potocnik‘s Knowledge for Growth expert group.

Articles by Reinhilde Veugelers

► Are new ICT sectors a platform for European growth? / October 2012

Daniela Vidaicu

Daniela Vidaicu is the new Moldova Soros Foundation Executive Director. Daniela previously served as the Foundation’s Director of Programs and Advocacy, where she focused on recalibrating programmatic and advocacy efforts through key partnerships. In her new role, she will continue to lead the Foundation’s advocacy in support of Moldova’s reform agenda and its larger European integration, as well as strengthening the Foundation’s dialogue with civil society leaders, government agencies, international actors, and development partners.

Before joining the Soros Foundation, Daniela spent eight years as a National Program Officer at the Embassy of Sweden in Moldova, where she developed a comprehensive portfolio and created strong partnerships with the UN, civil society organizations, national Moldovan stakeholders, and other development partners, with the aim of advancing democratic initiatives to expedite Moldova's integration into the EU. Prior to that she was Chief of Staff at Moldova’s Ministry of Justice. She holds a degree from the Law Faculty at Moldova State University and a master’s degree in business law from Montesquieu IV University in France.

Articles by Daniela Vidaicu

► Moldova is ready for the EU / June 2024

Pierre Vimont

Pierre Vimont is a senior fellow at Carnegie Europe and former executive Secretary General of the EEAS.

Articles by Pierre Vimont

Berk Vindevogel

Berk Vindevogel is a Ph.D. Researcher at the Ghent Institute for International and European Studies, where he focuses on Great Power Competition in the Arctic. He holds a Master's in International Politics from Ghent University.

Articles by Berk Vindevogel

► How should the EU assess the new U.S. Arctic Strategy? / December 2022

Peter Vis

Peter Vis is the Head of Cabinet of Connie Hedegaard, European Commissioner for Climate Action. Prior to that he worked in the Cabinet of Andris Piebalgs, Commissioner for Energy. He joined the European Commission in 1990, and since 1997 has been more specialised in environmental and energy issues, in particular climate change. He is a British national, married with 2 children.

Articles by Peter Vis

► Counting one's pennies / April 2012

Jannike Wachowiak

Jannike Wachowiak is a researcher at the UK in a Changing Europe, with a focus on UK-EU relations and European politics. She previously worked on European Relations for the Government of Jersey and as a Policy Analyst for the European Policy Centre (EPC) in Brussels.

Articles by Jannike Wachowiak

Alan Wager

Alan Wager is a Research Associate at The UK in a Changing Europe, and teaches on Brexit and British Politics at King's College London and the LSE.

Articles by Alan Wager

Hans Wallmark

Hans Wallmark has been a member of the Swedish parliament since 2006, representing the Swedish moderate party. He is Chair of the Committee on European Union Affairs, Chair of the Riksdag delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and Chair of the Hanaholmen-initiative.

Articles by Hans Wallmark

► The EU requires a preparedness strategy / April 2024

Garvan Walshe

Garvan Walshe is a former national and international security policy adviser to the British Conservative Party and CEO of Brexit Analytics. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Open Political Economy Network (opennetwork.net).

Articles by Garvan Walshe

Marcus Walsh-Führing

Marcus Walsh-Führing is a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Europe. Marcus' research interests focus on revenue collection, corporate governance, and regulatory autonomy. He has published numerous articles and reviews in: The Journal of Common Market Studies, Capital & Class, International Affairs, and International Studies Review.

Articles by Marcus Walsh-Führing

Nick Watts

Nick Watts is a policy adviser and consultant on Defence and Security policy; he is Convener of the British Influence Security Forum and Rapporteur on the EuroDefense Working Group on European cyber security policy. He was previously Policy Director at First Defence, and was Director of the Future of Europe Trust.

Articles by Nick Watts

► Four legs good, two legs bad: NATO and CSDP / November 2015

Gesine Weber

Gesine Weber is a PhD Candidate at the Defence Studies Department of King’s College London and Research Analyst at the Paris Office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Her research addresses European security and defence with a particular focus on new formats of defence cooperation, EU-UK relations, the E3 (France, Germany, UK), and Europe’s role on the geopolitical chessboard. She is also an Associate Researcher for the European Council on Foreign Relations and regularly speaks and publishes on the areas of her expertise in English, French and German.

Articles by Gesine Weber

► The European security order is changing: how does the UK fit in? / June 2022

John Weeks

John Weeks is professor emeritus of economics, SOAS, University of London, and founding member of Economists for Rational Economic Policies. His most recent book is Economics of the 1%: how mainstream economics serves the rich, obscures reality and distorts policy. He is based in London where he has a weekly radio programme of economic commentary.

Articles by John Weeks

Stefani Weiss

Stefani Weiss is Director of the European Programme at the Brussels Office of Bertelsmann Stiftung and an expert in EU foreign and security policy.

Articles by Stefani Weiss

► The EU neighbourhood in shambles / March 2015

Fredrik Wesslau

Fredrik Wesslau is Director of the Wider Europe Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. His areas of Expertise: European foreign policy, conflict and crisis management, state-building, counter-piracy, South Caucasus, and Western Balkans.

Articles by Fredrik Wesslau

► Will the EU prolong economic sanctions against Russia this summer? / May 2016

Tom West

Tom West joined the Hansard Society in July 2021 and is focussed on its programme of work on how Parliament legislates, in particular being responsible for the coordination of its Delegated Legislation Review. Tom conducts research for the Society on legislative processes and procedures and supports its collaboration and partnership with other stakeholders and networks active in the field.

Articles by Tom West

► Giving civil society their voice to shape Brexit opportunities / April 2022

Richard Westaway

Dr Richard Westaway is a Sustainability Specialist at IMS Consulting. His work in the construction sector includes the development of client submissions for the Carbon Disclosure Project. Prior to joining IMS he worked for the UK Climate Impact Programme.

Articles by Richard Westaway

► Reducing carbon emissions from the built environment / February 2012

Nick Westcott

Nicholas Westcott is Professor of Practice in Diplomacy in the Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS University of London, and formerly Director of the Royal African Society. From 2011-17 he was Managing Director in the EU’s External Action Service in Brussels, firstly for Africa and then for the Middle East and North Africa. After completing a PhD in African history at Cambridge University, he worked from 1982-2011 for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in a number of posts in London, Brussels, Washington DC and in Africa, including as British High Commissioner to Ghana from 2008. He is the author of Imperialism and Development (James Currey, 2020) and articles on African history and British and European foreign policy. He tweets @NickWestcott4.

Articles by Nick Westcott

Martin Westlake

Martin Westlake is a Visiting Professor in Practice at the LSE’s European Institute and a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges. During a thirty-year European career, he worked in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the EU’s Council of Ministers and the European Commission, with the European Parliament, and in the European Economic and Social Committee, where he served as Secretary-General, 2008-2013. He has published widely on the European institutions and on European and UK politics.

Articles by Martin Westlake

Hannah White

Hannah White is a Programme Director at the Institute for Government, where she leads the Institute’s work on Parliament and the relationship between scrutiny and effective government, and Brexit. She has more than 10 years' experience in Parliament and the Civil Service, most recently running the Committee on Standards on Public Life in the Cabinet Office, and the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee in the House of Commons.

Articles by Hannah White

► Breaking the silence: does the Government have a plan for Brexit? / October 2016

Dalena White

Dalena White has more than 20 years’ experience in clothing design, textile manufacturing, merchandising and product sourcing for fashion retail. She served as a board member of a clothing factory for 6 years, before joining the wool industry in 2008. She managed brand developments for South African Merino wool products, including styling, wool textile innovation and marketing projects with retail partners. Dalena was appointed as the Secretary General of the International Wool Textile Organisation, based in Brussels, Belgium, in June 2016. IWTO is the recognized global authority for standards in the wool industry and has been representing the interests of the wool textile trade since 1930. IWTO Members represent 23 countries and all stages of the wool pipeline. IWTO is a registered AISBL (non-profit).

Articles by Dalena White

Richard Whitman

Professor Richard G. Whitman is Senior Fellow on the UK in a Changing Europe and professor of politics and international relations at the University of Kent. He is also an associate fellow and former head of the Europe Programme at Chatham House. His current research interests include Brexit and especially the future foreign, security and defence policies of the UK and the EU.

Articles by Richard Whitman

Xenia Wickett

Xenia Wickett is the head of the US and the Americas Programme at Chatham House and the Dean of the Queen Elizabeth II Academy for Leadership in International Affairs, Chatham House’s leadership training initiative. Prior to this she was the Executive Director of the PeaceNexus Foundation, based just outside Geneva, which she launched in 2009. From 2005 to 2009, Xenia was at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center where she was the Director of the Project on India and the Subcontinent and the Executive Director for Research at the Belfer Center, as well as being a member of the Center’s board. From early 2004 to August 2005, Xenia served as Director for South Asia at the USG's National Security Council (NSC). Prior to her NSC post, Xenia served as a Foreign Affairs Specialist in the Bureau of South Asia at the Department of State. During her tenure at the Department of State, Xenia was also a Special Advisor at the Homeland Security Group, and an officer in the Bureau of Nonproliferation. Shortly after September 11, 2001, she was detailed from the Department of State to the Office of the Vice President (OVP) to help launch the Office of Homeland Security Affairs.

Articles by Xenia Wickett

► The strategic importance of TTIP / March 2016

Peter Wilding

Peter Wilding is the founder and director of British Influence. In 20 years of working in European affairs he has practised and lectured as a solicitor in EU law, been head of media for the Conservative party in the European parliament, and European director of BSkyB, He has made regular appearances in the media and has authored Influencing the European Union. He is the author of 'What Next? Britain's Future in Europe'.

Articles by Peter Wilding

Ivo-Meinert Willrodt

Ivo-Meinert Willrodt, who is a lawyer specializing in insolvency law, is the current President of the European Insolvency Practitioners Association (EIP), whose mission is to reaffirm the importance of the role of the insolvency practitioners within insolvency proceedings across Europe, improving its efficiency. Among others, Ivo-Meinert is a member of INSOL International, INSOL Europe and the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI). He is an often-requested speaker, who discusses topics such as European insolvency law, management liability, and the effects of Brexit.

Articles by Ivo-Meinert Willrodt

► Where is the wave of corporate insolvency in Europe? / February 2022

Jason Wiseman

Secretary General of the Atlantic Treaty Association, Jason Wiseman has been with the ATA Headquarters since 2012 and worked as a National Security Analyst with the NATO Association of Canada from 2011. He holds an MA in Government with a Specialization in Counter-Terrorism and Homeland Security and a BAH in Political Science. His areas of expertise include Counter-Terrorism, State Failure and Transnational Organized Crime.

Articles by Jason Wiseman

► The ISIS wave that's yet to come and how the EU can face it in 2017 / March 2017

Andrew Woodcock

Andrew Woodcock is Director of Stabilitas Associates, an international relations consultancy. He was a UK diplomat for 25 years and is particularly focused on civilian military issues and on Britain having effective relations with the rest of the EU.

Articles by Andrew Woodcock

Jon Worth

Jon Worth is a Berlin based political blogger and communications consultant. His blog – jonworth.eu – has been one of the most read and referenced blogs about the EU over the past decade. He also teaches about politics and communication at the College of Europe in Bruges. You can follow him on Twitter @jonworth.

Articles by Jon Worth

Nicholas Wright

Nicholas Wright holds a PhD from the University of East Anglia and is a Visiting Researcher at the University of Surrey’s Centre for Britain in Europe. His research focuses on foreign policy-making and how states cooperate at the multilateral level. He has written and commentated extensively on UK, German and EU foreign policy, including a 2019 book comparing UK and German engagement with the EU’s CFSP. His recent work focuses on the EU’s post-Lisbon foreign policy system (in collaboration with Dr Heidi Maurer); and on the impact of Brexit on UK and EU foreign policy. Between 2015 and 2021 he was a Lecturer in EU Politics at University College London.

Articles by Nicholas Wright

Georgina Wright

Georgina Wrightis a senior researcher on the Brexit team where she focuses on UK engagement and influence in the EU after Brexit. Her research interests include the EU27’s views of Brexit, Franco-British relations and the future of the EU. Prior to joining the Institute, she was a research associate at Chatham House and has worked for the European Commission and NATO in Brussels. She frequently gives evidence to select committees in the House of Commons and House of Lords.

Articles by Georgina Wright

► Coronavirus leaves EU contemplating a longer Brexit transition period – but the time to act is short / April 2020

Guillaume Xavier-Bender

Guillaume Xavier-Bender is a transatlantic fellow at GMF based out of Brussels, where he works on political economy, economic security and the transatlantic economy. His expertise includes issues related to geoeconomics, the digital economy, innovation, trade and investment policy, global and national security.

Articles by Guillaume Xavier-Bender

► Tackling Ebola is an imperative for Atlantic partners / November 2014

Alasdair Young

Alasdair Young is Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and is co-director of the School’s Center for European and Transatlantic Studies. His most recent book, with John Peterson, is Parochial Global Europe: 21st Century Trade Politics (Oxford University Press, 2014).

Articles by Alasdair Young

► Parochial global Europe: 21st century trade politics / May 2014

Kevin Young

Kevin Young is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics. His research focuses on international political economy, the politics of financial regulation and transnational policy networks.

Articles by Kevin Young

► European and global gridlock / July 2013

Richard Youngs

Richard Youngs is Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe and professor at the University of Warwick, UK. He is co-founder of the European Democracy Hub. Youngs has authored 17 books, most recently 'Geoliberal Europe and the Test of War' (Agenda, 2024).

Articles by Richard Youngs

Durwood Zaelke

Durwood Zaelke is founder and President of the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (IGSD) in Washington, DC and Geneva; Director of the Secretariat for the International Network for Environmental Compliance & Enforcement (INECE) in Washington, DC and Geneva; and the co-Director and co-founder (with Dr. Oran Young and Matthew Stilwell) of the Program on Governance for Sustainable Development at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Articles by Durwood Zaelke

► Waste not, warm less / December 2013

Eirini Zafeiratou

Eirini Zafeiratou is head of EU affairs at the Vodafone Group (www.vodafone.com/eu).

Articles by Eirini Zafeiratou

► E-inclusion: creating a mobile internet for all / February 2012

Ewa Zelazna

Ewa Zelazna is a lecturer at the University of Leicester’s Law School. She joined the Department in September 2017. Her main research interests are in the fields of EU constitutional law, EU external relations and international investment law. She is completing a PhD entitled ‘The EU Investment Policy after the Treaty Lisbon 2009: an Institutional Perspective’ in which she examines role of the EU institutions in the development of the EU’s new international investment policy.

Articles by Ewa Zelazna

► Parliamentary scrutiny of Brexit / March 2020

Dimitri Zenghelis

Dimitri Zenghelis is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute at the LSE and an Associate Fellow at Chatham House. He is also a Senior Economic Advisor to Cisco's long term innovation group. Previously, he headed the Stern Review Team at the Office of Climate Change, London, and was one of the authors of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, commissioned by the then Chancellor Gordon Brown. Before working on climate change, Dimitri was Head of Economic Forecasting at HM Treasury.

Articles by Dimitri Zenghelis

► Restoring growth and confidence through green innovation / June 2012

Pawel Zerka

Pawel Zerka is a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations where he is a lead ECFR analyst on European public opinion. He contributes to ECFR’s Re:shape Global Europe project, which seeks to develop new strategies for Europeans to understand and engage with the changing international order. Pawel is also engaged in discussions about Europe’s economic statecraft, and he works on Polish and European foreign policy. Based at ECFR’s Paris office, he has been part of the team since August 2017.

Previously, Zerka worked as expert and head of programmes at two leading Polish think tanks, demosEUROPA-Centre for European Strategy and WiseEuropa. Zerka holds a PhD in economics and a master’s degree in international relations from the Warsaw School of Economics, having also studied at SciencesPo Bordeaux and Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Articles by Pawel Zerka

► European leadership and the war in Ukraine / March 2023

Jeromin Zettelmeyer

Jeromin Zettelmeyer is Director of Bruegel. Born in Madrid in 1964, Jeromin was previously a Deputy Director of the Strategy and Policy Review Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Prior to that, he was Dennis Weatherstone Senior Fellow (2019) and Senior Fellow (2016-19) at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Director-General for Economic Policy at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (2014-16); Director of Research and Deputy Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (2008-2014), and an IMF staff member, where he worked in the Research, Western Hemisphere, and European II Departments (1994-2008).

Jeromin holds a Ph.D. in economics from MIT (1995) and an economics degree from the University of Bonn (1990). He is a Research Fellow in the International Macroeconomics Programme of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and a member of the CEPR’s Research and Policy Network on European economic architecture, which he helped found. He is also a member of CESIfo. He has published widely on topics including financial crises, sovereign debt, economic growth, transition to market, and Europe’s monetary union. His recent research interests include EMU economic architecture, sovereign debt, debt and climate, and the return of economic nationalism in advanced and emerging market countries.

Articles by Jeromin Zettelmeyer

► The economic case for north-south climate finance at scale / June 2024

Renata Zilli

Renata Zilli is a Research Assistant at ECIPE. She is a master’s graduate from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) with concentrations in International Economics and Latin American Studies. Renata also holds a master’s degree in International Relations and International Trade Law from Macquarie University in Australia. She has previously worked in research projects at the UKTI in Sydney, the USMCA office at the Mexican Embassy in Washington D.C., and at the Elcano Royal Institute in Madrid. She is the co-founder of TradeTankMx a think tank of young professional experts in trade in Mexico.

Articles by Renata Zilli

► From market access to defensive trade: the changing shape of EU trade policy / June 2022

Fabian Zuleeg

Since October 2013, Dr. Fabian Zuleeg is Chief Executive of the European Policy Centre, with overall responsibility, including providing strategic direction, managing its staff and resources and representing the EPC. He remains Chief Economist at the same time (a post he has held since January 2010). Fabian holds a PhD on the political economy of EU accession from Edinburgh University. Before coming to the EPC he has worked as an economic analyst in academia, the public and the private sector. He is currently Honorary Fellow at the Europa Institute of the University of Edinburgh and Honorary Professor at Heriot Watt University.
His research focuses on the economic and Euro crises, including the reform of the new economic governance at Eurozone level. He also works on the Single Market, Digitalisation, European labour markets and the EU budget. He has a long standing interest in the political economy of European integration, with a particular focus on the UK-EU relationship, analysing the impact of Brexit on the UK and the rest of the EU, as well as the process of separation. He was appointed to the Standing Council on Europe, established by Scotland’s First Minister after the Brexit vote in June 2016.
Fabian works closely with decision makers in the European institutions, the EPC members and partners and the wider Brussels stakeholder community. Fabian regularly comments on current political and economic issues in the EU in the media. He also chairs and contributes to a wide range of debates, conferences and seminars and has researched and published widely on European integration and on European economic and social policies.

Articles by Fabian Zuleeg

Wim Zwijnenburg

Wim Zwijnenburg is a Humanitarian Disarmament Project Leader for PAX, a Dutch peace organization, in which he currently works on the use and proliferation of armed drones and on the impact of conflicts on environment and health. He previously worked on arms trade and wider issues around emerging military technology.

Articles by Wim Zwijnenburg

Tea Zyberaj

Tea Zyberaj is a BSc (Hons) International Relations graduate from the Department of Politics, University of Surrey, and current Postgraduate Studentship Holder for the Centre for Britain and Europe.

Articles by Tea Zyberaj

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