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.