Cleo Davies is Assistant Professor in Politics and international relations at Forward College, Paris. Cleo’s expertise lies in European politics, EU decision-making, and the role of international organisations in transnational governance, as well as UK-EU relations. Before joining Forward, she also worked as a Senior Research fellow on projects ‘Negotiating the Future’ and ‘Living with the Neighbours‘ as part of the UK in a Changing Europe programme with Professor Hussein Kassim. She obtained a PhD in Politics from the University of Edinburgh, where she also taught for eight and a half years on a range of courses in the School of Social and Political Science. Before academia, she worked for over five years in European politics and policy making in Brussels.