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Law Professor

John Vervaele is Professor of Economic and European Criminal Law at Utrecht University and Professor of European Criminal Law at the College of Europe in Bruges.

Assistant Professor of European Law

Vigjilenca Abazi is Assistant Professor of European Law at Maastricht University. She was Resident Fellow at Information Project Society at Yale Law School, Emile Nöel Fellow at NYU School of Law, and Fulbright Scholar at Columbia Law School. Her most recent book is 'Secrecy and Oversight in the European Union' (OUP 2019) part of Oxford Studies in European Law.

Associate at Reed Smith

Stéphanie Abdesselam is an associate in the Litigation team of the Reed Smith Paris office. She works primarily on regulatory matters, in particular data security and privacy issues, and anti-corruption regulatory. She also experience in civil and commercial pre-litigation and litigation matters.

Professor of History and Political Science at the Witwatersrand University of South Africa and Director of Research at the Witwatersrand Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) in Johannesburg

Achille Mbembe is a professor of history and political science at the Witwatersrand University of South Africa and director of research at the Witwatersrand Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) in Johannesburg. He is also a visiting professor at Harvard University and the author of numerous books, notably on the theme of modes of reflection and operation in decolonized Africa, such as Sortir de la grande nuit, Critique de la raison nègre et Politiques de l'inimitié, as well as De la postcolonie. Essai sur l’imagination politique dans l’Afrique contemporaine.

Former Europe advisor to French President Emmanuel Macron; Member of the Council of State (Conseil d'État) of the French Republic

Professor of European and German Public Law, Public Policy and Public Administration at the Berlin School of Economics and Law

Senior Advisor on Climate Diplomacy and Geopolitics at the African Climate Foundation

Faten Aggad is the Senior Advisor on Climate Diplomacy and Geopolitics at the African Climate Foundation (ACF). Prior to joining the ACF in February 2022, Faten served as the Senior Advisor to the African Union High Representative on future relations with the European Union.

Professor at the Collège de France and London School of Economics

Professor at the Collège de France and London School of Economics

Professor of economics, College de France

French economist, member of the Institut Universitaire de France

Michel Aglietta is a French economist, a current scientific advisor at CEPII,  member of the Institut Universitaire de France, and a professor emeritus of Economics at Université Paris-Nanterre and of Macroeconomics at HEC Paris. He was a member of the Cercle des économistes and then of the Council of Economic Analysis to the French Prime Minister between 1997 and 2003.

Partner at Bredin Prat

Yann Aguila is a partner at Bredin Prat where he heads the Public Law Department. He advises on all aspects of public law and environmental law, both in a transactional and litigation context. Before joining Bredin Prat in 2011, Yann Aguila was a member of the French Conseil d'État since 1990.

Chairman and President of Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA, Associate Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies

Dr. Satohiro Akimoto is Chairman of the Board and President of Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA and Associate Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. 

Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs

Chief Executive Officer of the Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA)

Associate Professor of History

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson is Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago and Interim Director of the Commission on Environment, Geography and Urbanization.

Director of Research, Head of the Economic Policy Unit at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

Dr. Cinzia Alcidi is Director of Research, Head of the Economic Policy Unit at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels and LUISS- School of European Political Economy- research fellow. Prior to joining CEPS, she worked at International Labour Office in Geneva and she taught International Economics at University of Perugia (Italy).

Jean Monnet Professor in European Union Law & Policy and founder of The Good Lobby

Nobel Prize Winner in Literature

Economist

Mona Ali is an associate professor of economics at the State University of New York – New Paltz. She is working on a book on the weaponization of global finance.

Ancien Président du Conseil italien, juge à la Cour constitutionnelle italienne

Professor of Economic History, Bocconi University (Milan)

Massimo Amato teaches at the Bocconi University of Milan. For the past fifteen years, he has devoted his research to money: history of monetary systems, history of monetary thought, reform of the monetary system.

Contributor

Professor emeritus of the Sorbonne Université

Mathematician and philosopher, member of the French National Order of Merit

Professor of political science at the Université de Bourgogne

Dominique Andolfatto is a Professor of political science at the University of Burgundy and co-director of research on "democracy" within the Center for Research and Studies in Law and Political Science (CREDESPO). His research focuses on trade unions, political parties and public policies.

Researcher at Universität Greifswald

Maximilian Andorff-Woller is a researcher at the University of Greifswald. His research focuses on the welfare state, the labor-capital duality and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Senior Research Fellow at the Energy Studies Institute at the National University of Singapore

Philip Andrews-Speed is a senior research fellow at the Energy Studies Institute at the National University of Singapore. He began his career as a geologist, specializing in mining and petroleum before turning to energy resource management.

Former French Ambassador to the United States

Gérard Araud is Vice President of Richard & Associates. Previously, he was ambassador to Israel between 2003 and 2006, permanent representative of France to the United Nations between 2009 and 2014 and then ambassador of France to the United States between 2014 and 2019.

Defense Coordinator at the European Commission's Directorate General for Defense Industry

François Arbault is the Defense Coordinator in the European Commission's Directorate General for Defense Industry. Prior to his current position, François Arbault headed the Industrial Property Unit ("MARKT/D-2") in the European Commission's Internal Market and Services Directorate General.

Politico Advisor

Alessandro Aresu is an Italian policy adviser and strategic thinker. He is currently chief of policy staff at the Ministry of University and Research. He has served the Italian government in various capacities for more than ten years, including as a board member of the Italian Space Agency and as counselor to Prime Minister Mario Draghi. He is the author of several books on geopolitics and technology, investment screening and global supply chains. He is writing a new book on artificial intelligence. His opinions are strictly personal.

Associate researcher at the Asia Center

Eric Armando is a research associate at the Asia Center. His work focuses on Asia and energy and he works for a large French energy company. Eric Armando is a graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.

Editor, BLUE

Jean-Sébastien F. Arrighi graduated from Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble. He is a member of BLUE's editorial team.

Executive Director of the Georgetown Climate Center

Honorary Rector of Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, President of the International Society of Social Defence

Luis Arroyo Zapatero (born in Valladolid in 1951), is a Spanish jurist, specialist in international criminal law, president of the International Society of Social Defense, and founder and current director of the Institute of European and International Criminal Law. He is Honorary Rector of the University of Castilla-La Mancha, of which he was the founding Rector. He is also a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of the Institut de France since 2019

Writer, president of the Positive Planet Foundation, president of the of Attali et Associés, Honorary member of the French Conseil d’Etat

Researcher in political science at CNRS (Montpellier)

Julien Audemard holds a doctorate in political science and is a CNRS researcher at the Center for Political and Social Studies (CEPEL) of the Université de Montpellier. His research interests include primary elections and the politics of the southern regions of France.

Sociologist

Sociologist, Stefan made studies of political science at the Otto-Suhr-Institut of the Freie Universität Berlin, and at Sabanci University in Istanbul, and a research Master in Social Sciences (Sciences, Technology, Societys mention) at EHESS in Paris. He obtained a research allowance for his thesis that he wrote under the supervision of Amy Dahan in the Centre Alexandre Koyré at EHESS. His thesis, defended in May 2012 with highest honour, was on ‘How to govern a ‘new global risk’? The construction of climate change as a public issue on a global and European scale, in France and Germany. Stefan participated in various research projects, including one on the international arenas of climate change (funded by the Centre Alexandre Koyré), in which he participated in the international Poznan 2008 and Copenhagen 2009 climate conferences and contributed to the publication of two research papers, one on the construction of climate change as public issue in France: what place is there for controversies? (funded by the ISCC after competition) which led to the organization of an international conference in September 2010. Stefan has also been recruited by the project Gouverner et administrer les techno-sciences à l’échelle globale (GATSEG, EHESS/CNRS) to work on the forward-looking energy. He has worked as an expert for organizations such as the OECD and the city of science and industry, and he is an associate researcher at the Franco-German Institute of Ludwigsburg (dfi) since October 2009. Currently, he is involved in two projects, the first one on the Evolution of the international geopolitical situation in the fight against climate change, funded by the Centre for strategic analysis (CAS), for which he took the UN negotiations on environment and development in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012, and the second one on climate controversies, funded by the GIS Climate Environment Societys.

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French European Prosecutor

Frédéric Baab is the French European Prosecutor. He is the former French National Member and President of the counterterrorism team at Eurojust, a position he held from 2014 to 2019.

Research fellow at the University of Montenegro

Bojan Baća is a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Montenegro.

Emeritus professor at Sciences PoParis.

Bertrand Badie (born 1950) is a French political scientist and international relations specialist, emeritus professor at Sciences Po. He is one of the most renowned French specialists in international relations.

Geographer

Lecturer in geography at the University of Lyon II and specialist of the Middle East.

Associate Professor of Aesthetics and Art Theory at Nanjing University

Philosopher

Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Paris-Ouest (Nanterre) and Affiliate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California at Irvine.

Researcher at Universität Greifswald

Erik Baltz is a researcher and doctoral student in political science at the University of Greifswald. He is interested in the effect of intra-party preferences on the duration of coalition governments.

Research Assistant at the University of Glasgow

Petar Bankov is a lecturer and research assistant at the University of Glasgow.

Member of the Paris Bar and Senior Partner of the law firm August Debouzy

Senior Partner, August Debouzy

Senior EU Reporter at POLITICO

Jacopo Barigazzi is Senior EU Reporter, covering mainly migration, foreign policy and Italian politics at POLITICO. Prior to this, he wrote for Newsweek covering Italian politics and economy.

Research engineer at the French Ministry of Culture

Christophe Batardy holds a doctorate in contemporary history. He is a research engineer at the French Ministry of Culture, working at the AOROC laboratory (ENS/PSL), and teaching cartography and statistics at the University of Nantes.

French economist currently working in the French Treasury

Architect

Arlette Baumans is an architect, urban planner and co-founder of Baumans-Deffet Architecture Urbanisme.

Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh and Visiting Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School (2022-2023)

Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University

Derek Beach is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University.

Secretary of State to the French Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs

Former French Minister of Justice, President of the Club des Juristes

Senior research scholar and adjunct professor of law at Columbia Law School

Seyla Benhabib is a senior research scholar and adjunct professor of law at Columbia Law School. She is also an affiliate faculty member in the Columbia University Department of Philosophy and a senior fellow at the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought. She was a scholar in residence at the Law School from 2018 to 2019 and was also the James S. Carpentier Visiting Professor of Law in spring 2019.

Law Professor

Raluca Bercea is a law teacher at the West University of Timisoara in Romania, specializing in European Union law, International Protection of Human Rights and comparative law.

Economist at the Bank of France

Senior Policy Advisor at the Conference Board

Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress

Lecturer, University of Bordeaux

Gilles Bertrand is a lecturer in political science at the Centre Emile-Durkheim of the University of Bordeaux. His research focuses on conflict resolution, multilateralism, transnational networks and diasporas. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Études internationales.

Professor of European Governance at the University of Amsterdam and co-director of the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES)

Reader in Modern European Politics, University of Cambridge

Head of European and International Economic Policy at the Federal Executive Board of the German Trade Union Confederation

Professor of Public International Law at Beijing Normal University

Executive Director, International Energy Agency

Member of the European Parliament

Director of the Europe in the World Programme at the Egmont Royal Institute for International Relations

Professor, Sciences Po Law School

Former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund

Associate Professor at the Mid Sweden University

Sofie Blombäck is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Central Sweden.

Member of the European Parliament

Damian Boeselager is a German member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs. 

Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan

Legal professional specialized in cybersecurity, data protection, and digital affairs

Anda Bologa is a legal professional specialized in cybersecurity, data protection, and digital affairs

Reader at the City Law School

Director-General of DIGITAL EUROPE

Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl is Director-General of DIGITAL EUROPE. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Gaia-X and of the European Commission’s Industrial Forum. She is also a member of the Stakeholder Cybersecurity Certification Group of ENISA (the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity) and of NATO’s high-level Advisory Group for Emerging and Disruptive Technologies, and a member of the supervisory board of EIT Digital.

Partner at Paul Hastings

Minister of State for Europe

Director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Jason Bordoff is one of the world's leading experts on energy and climate policy. He is the co-founding dean of the Columbia Climate School and currently director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Jason Bordoff is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Petroleum Council.

High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

Law Professor

Martin Böse is a Professor of Criminal Law and Procedure, and of International and European law at the University of Bonn. He coordinated several international research projects, such as the creation of a European Prosecutor's Office, the evaluation of mutual trust in the Union with regard to the European Arrest Warrant and conflicts of jurisdictions in criminal matter within the European Union.

Former chief of staff for Alaska state representative Bob Miller

Secretary General for Defence and National Security

Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organization at the Columbia Law School

Counsel at Laurent Cohen-Tanugi Avocats
Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Law Journal

Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States

Secretary-general of the Société Générale Group
Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Law Journal

Professor of law at Georgetown University

Associate Researcher, IRSEM

Associate Professor of International Relations at Aarhus University

Rasmus Brun Pederson is Associate Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University.

Professor of Development Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences of University of Ljubljana

Maja Bucar is Professor of Development Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences of University of Ljubljana and Head of CIR

Legal Advisor, REDRESS

Chair in Financial Law and Director of the Financial Law Centre (FLC), which is part of the Radboud Business Law Institute of Radboud University Nijmegen.

Professor Dr. Danny Busch, M.Jur. (Oxon.) is Chair in Financial Law and Director of the Financial Law Centre (FLC), which is part of the Radboud Business Law Institute of Radboud University Nijmegen.

Professor and Chairholder of the European Energy Policy Chair at the College of Europe and Deputy Director of the Energy Community Secretariat

Head of Cabinet of Commissioner for Economy, Paolo Gentiloni

Marco Buti is Head of Cabinet of Commissioner for Economy, Paolo Gentiloni. Previously, he has been Director-General for Economic and Financial Affairs at the European Commission. He held various posts as an economist in DG ECFIN and the Commissioner's cabinet (private office) before taking up a post as an economic adviser to the Commission President in 2002-03. In 2003 he returned to DG ECFIN as Director for the Directorate for economies of the Member States, and in September 2006 was appointed Deputy Director-General.

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Professor at Yale University

Dan Esty is the Hillhouse Professor at Yale University with appointments in both the Law and Environment Schools -- and director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (www.yale.edu/envirocenter) as well as co-director of the Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance. Professor Esty has written or edited fourteen books (including the prizewinning volumes Green to Gold and A Better Planet) and dozens of articles on climate change, environmental protection, regulatory reform, and sustainability -- and their connections to corporate strategy, competitiveness, sustainability metrics, and trade. He served in a number of leadership roles at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1989 - 93 (including serving on the U.S. delegation that negotiated the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change) and as Commissioner of Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection from 2011- 14.

Professor of Law

Professor, Complutense University of Madrid

Francisco Cabezuelo Lorenzo is a Professor at the Faculty for Information Science of the Complutense University of Madrid. His research focuses on audiovisual communication, journalism, and publicity.

Assistant Professor of International Law and co-director of the Law Clinic Fight Against Impunity at the Faculty of Law of the Universitat de Barcelona (UB)

Sciences Po

First Honorary President of the Court of Cassation

First President of the Court of Cassation from 1999 to 2007, then member of the Constitutional Council from 2007 to 2016.

Visiting Scholar at the London School of Economics (LSE)

Professor in Political Science and Dean of the School of Administrative and Social Sciences at Koç University

Ali Çarkoğlu is Professor in Political Science and Dean of the School of Administrative and Social Sciences at Koç University.

Researcher at Luiss Guido Carli, Rome
Member of the Scientific Council, BLUE

Lorenzo Castellani is a Research Fellow at Luiss Guido Carli, Rome, focusing on the History of Political Institutions.

Senior Policy Officer at the FEAM

Secretary general of the French Digital Council
Member of the editorial board of the European Law Journal

Secretary General of the National Digital Council

Secretary General of the National Digital Council, PhD (Law)

Researcher at CNRS and CEVIPOF (Paris)
Member of the Scientific Council, BLUE

Bruno Cautrès is a researcher at the CNRS and at the Center for Political Research (CEVIPOF). He studies electoral behaviour and French and European politics.

Former Advisor to the European Union Counter-Terrorism Coordinator

Former Prime Minister of France

Rappaport Fellow and Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School, and Fellow, Miller Center for Global Challenges and the Law, UC Berkeley

Professor of applied statistics and director of the Laboratory of Applied Political Research at the University of Thessaloniki
Member of the Scientific Council, BLUE 

Theodore Chadjipandelis is a professor of applied statistics and the director of the Laboratory of Applied Political Research at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH).

Philosopher, CNRS research fellow at Sciences Po

Pierre Charbonnier is a philosopher and CNRS research fellow at the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics at Sciences Po Paris. His work focuses on the history and philosophy of social sciences, systems of thought and management of the natural environment, political and ecological crises, and the place of ecology in the democratization process.

senior associate and Professor

Celine Charveriat is senior associate at TMG and Professor at the Paris School of International Affairs of Sciences Po. Before that, she was Executive Director of the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP), a Brussels-based sustainability think tank. In this capacity, she coordinated the European think tank network Think Sustainable Europe, which currently includes, in addition to IEEP, the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3 - Spain), Ecologic Institute (Germany), TMG - Think Tank for Sustainability (Germany), the Green Tank (Greece), IDDRI (France), the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI - Sweden) and the European office of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). Céline Charveriat is an expert researcher and activist who has been influencing debates, policies and practices in the field of sustainable development and climate change for over 15 years. She began her career in Washington as a researcher at the Peterson Institute and the Inter-American Development Bank. She worked for over 10 years with Oxfam International.

Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund

Director of the International Energy Policy Program at the National Resources Defence Council

Han Chen is the director of the International Energy Policy Program at the National Resources Defence Council. She manages the Council's work in promoting a global energy transition and addressing climate change at the international level.

Special Advisor to the Jacques Delors Institute

A visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Thierry Chopin also teaches engineering students at the Ecole Polytechnique.

Non-resident Fellow at Bruegel

Rebecca Christie is a non-resident fellow at Bruegel. Prior, Rebecca was a political correspondent in Brussels for Bloomberg News from 2011 to 2016. Most recently she served as the lead author on the European Stability Mechanism's institutional history, "Safeguarding the Euro in Times of Crisis: the Inside Story of the ESM". She has also served as an expert adviser to a European Economic and Social Committee panel on taxation. She is an experienced panel moderator and has provided occasional reporting and radio commentary on Brexit to Irish broadcaster RTE and to the BBC.

Assistant Professor of Banking, Corporate and Financial Law

Anna Christie is Assistant Professor of Banking, Corporate and Financial Law, University of Edinburgh Law School and Director of Studies in Law, Newnham College, University of Cambridge.

Political scientist specialized in ecological issues

Andrée Clément is a political scientist specializing in ecological issues.

International editor of the New Statesman

Prior to The New Statesman, Jeremy Cliffe was the Berlin Bureau Chief and Charlemagne commentator of The Economist. He has appeared on media outlets such as ARTE, Deustschlandfunk, CNN, BBC World, France 24 among others. Previously, Jeremy Cliffe has worked at the European Parliament in Brussels and The Economist Intelligence Unit in New York. He studied at Oxford and Harvard.

Former Director of the Directorate General for General and Institutional Policy of the Council of the European Union

Professor at the School of Transnational Governance (STG) of the EUI at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

Carlos Closa is a part-time professor at the School of Transnational Governance (STG) at EUI and a professor at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Previously, Closa was director of the European, Transnational and Global Governance research area within the Robert Schuman Center's Global Governance Program.

Editor, BLUE

Lucie Coatleven graduated from Sciences Po Strasbourg and UCL. She is a member of BLUE's editorial team.

Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics

Senior economist at the Independent Evaluation Office of the IMF

Jérémie Cohen-Setton is senior economist at the Independent Evaluation Office of the International Monetary Fund. Prior to his current position, Jérémie Cohen-Setton was a research fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Previously, Jérémie Cohen-Setton worked at Bruegel, the British Treasury and as an economic consultant at the Asian Development Bank.

International Lawyer and writer

Laurent Cohen-Tanugi is founder and managing partner of Laurent Cohen-Tanugi Avocats.

Senior lecturer in political science

Professor at the University of Luxembourg

Former Vice-President of the European Central Bank

Assistant Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid

David H. Corrochano is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Sociology of the Complutense University of Madrid.

Partner in the Hogan Lovells’ Paris Office

Director of the Department of European Political and Governance Studies at the College of Europe

Principal researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Deputy Chairwoman of the Institute of Public Policy
Member of the Scientific Council, BLUE

Marina Costa Lobo is Principal researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon and Deputy Director of the Lisbon Institute of Public Policy, a multidisciplinary academic think tank. She has been the director of the Portuguese Electoral Study since 2017. In this framework, she has been involved in several international surveys. Since 2016, she also leads the (ERC) MAPLE project, which analyzes the importance of Europe in national electoral behavior.

Editor, Electoral Bulletin of the European Union

Jean Cotte is an editor for the Electoral Bulletin of the European Union (BLUE).

Assistant Professor of Smart and Sustainable Urbanism at Trinity College Dublin

Federico Cugurullo is Assistant Professor of Smart and Sustainable Urbanism at Trinity College Dublin. He has previously taught at the University of Manchester, King's College London, and the London School of Economics and Political Science. 

Associate professor at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Zagreb University
Member of the Scientific Council, BLUE

Goran Čular is an Associate professor at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Zagreb University.

Strategic Adviser on Asia-Pacific Affairs at the European External Action Service

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Deputy Director, Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict (ELAC), Executive Director, Oxford Programme on International Peace and Security, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford

Founding Chairman of Volta

Stewart and Judy Colton Professor of Legal Theory and Innovation et Directeur du Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Université de Tel Aviv

Professor of Taxation Law at Oxford University

Director of research at CNRS and the Alexandre Koyré Center

Amy Dahan's work focuses on the history of mathematics, algebra, and mathematical physics, the role of science during World War II and the Cold War, the role of women in science, and the interactions of mathematics with other disciplines.

Disputes and Business Ethics Partner at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP

Executive Director of the Antiquities Coalition

Beller Family Professor of Business Law, New York University School of Law

Jurist at DS Avocats

External Member of the Editorial Team at Grand Continent

Analyst in a French public institution. Specialist in public policy in the field of digital and new technologies.

Associate Professor at the University of Trieste

Elisabetta De Giorgi is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Trieste.

John Paulson Chair in European Political Economy, London School of Economics and Political Science

Paul De Grauwe is Professor of International Economics and holds the John Paulson Chair in European Political Economy at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science.

European Affairs correspondent for NRC Handelsblad

European Union Counter-Terrorism Coordinator

Director of the Institut français des relations internationales

Thierry de Montbrial created the French IFRI in 1979 and is its President. He also directs the annual report of the IFRI, RAMSES (since 1983), and the review Politique Etrangère. In 2008, he launched the World Policy Conference. He is a professor emeritus and member of the Board of Directors of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. He was President of the Franco-Austrian Centre for Rapprochement in Europe (1985-2015). Thierry de Montbrial is a member of the Board of Directors of the Renault Foundation. He was also a member of the Advisory Council to the Secretary General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Geneva, and a member of the White Paper Commission on Defence and National Security (1993-1994; 2007-2008). In the academic field, he is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, the Carnegie Moscow Center, the Advisory Council of the Stanford Institute for International Studies, the Editorial Board of Russia in Global Affairs, Moscow. Between 1993 and 2001, he was the first President of the Foundation for Strategic Research. From 1973 to 1979, he was the first Director of the Centre d'Analyse et de Prévision of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which he had been asked to set up by the then Minister of Foreign Affairs, Michel Jobert. He held the chair of Applied Economics and International Relations at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (1995-2008) and was a professor at the Ecole Polytechnique, where he chaired the Economics Department between 1974 and 1992. of which he chaired the Department of Economics between 1974 and 1992. Thierry de Montbrial was elected to the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques in 1992. He was President of this Academy for the year 2001 during which he was also President of the Institut de France. He is a founding member of the Académie des Technologies. He is also a member of the Academia Europaea (1993), the Royal Academy of Belgium (1996), the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (1999), the Romanian Academy (1999), the Russian Academy of Sciences (2003), the Academy of Sciences of Moldova (2006), the Academy of Sciences of Bulgaria (2006), the Real Academia de Ciencias Económicas y Financieras, Spain (2008). Thierry de Montbrial is Doctor Honoris Causa of the Romanian Academy for Economic Studies (1996), of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan (2002), of the University of Brasov, Romania, (2003), of the Galatasaray University, Turkey, (2004), Chisinau State University, Moldova, (2005), Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Russia, (2007), University of Bucharest, Romania, (2011) and Iasi, Romania (2014) and the University "St. Clement of Ohrid" in Sofia, Bulgaria (2017). He is Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit, Commander of the Order of Palms

lawyer

Olivier De Schutter is a Belgian jurist and professor of international law at the Catholic University of Leuven and at Sciences Po Paris. Between 2008 and 2014, he was the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food of the United Nations Human Rights Council. He was a member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights between 2015 and May 2020, until his appointment as UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights.

Partner at Kramer Levin

European director at Greenmantle, a macroeconomic and geopolitical advisory firm.

Joseph de Weck is the author of Emmanuel Macron: Der revolutionäre Präsident, an analysis of Emmanuel Macron’s five-year term and a portrait of French society, published by Weltkiosk in June 2021. Joseph de Weck is European director of a consulting firm macroeconomic and geopolitical risk consultancy, based in Paris. He is a regular contributor to Internationale Politik Quarterly, the media of the German Council for International Relations (DGAP). He is a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and has experience in financial and commercial diplomacy: he coordinated Switzerland’s policy on financial services vis-à-vis the European Union and was secretary of the task force of the Swiss government on Brexit. Joseph de Weck holds a Bachelor’s degree from the London School of Economics (LSE), a Master’s degree from Sciences Po Paris and a Master’s degree from the University of Saint-Gallen in Switzerland.

Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Mannheim
Member of the Scientific Council, BLUE

Marc Debus is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Mannheim and a member of the board of the German Political Science Association.

Project leader at the University of Liège

Bernard Deffet is head of the architecture department at the University of Liège and co-founder of Baumans-Deffet Architecture Urbanisme.

Former Director-General of the European Commission's DG Climate Action, Professor at KU Leven and EUI

Jos Delbeke is STG part-time Professor and full Professor at KU Leuven in Belgium. In September 2020, he was appointed as the EUI's first European Investment Bank Chair on Climate Change Policy and International Carbon Markets ('EIB Climate Chair'). Jos Delbeke is the former Director-General of the European Commission's DG Climate Action (2010 until 2018). He holds a PhD in economics (Leuven).

Professor Emeritus at the Collège de France and member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques

Head of Policy Planning and Strategic Foresight at the European External Action Service (EEAS)

 Hervé Delphin (FR) is an EU official, currently Head of Policy Planning and Strategic Foresight at the European External Action Service (EEAS). Prior to this, he worked in the European Commission where he held various positions, notably in Cabinets between 2004 and 2014, as Head of the Cabinet of Kristalina Georgieva, then European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, and earlier on as deputy Head of the Cabinet of Commissioners Louis Michel and Karel de Gucht, Commissioners in charge of development policy and external relations with African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. From 2014 to 2017 he was Head of the Unit in DG ECHO in charge of the EU humanitarian and emergency response in the European Neighbourhood and the Middle East. 

Deputy Director at Bruegel

Belgian Secretary of State for Resilience and Recovery, Space and Scientific Research

Architect

Michel Desvignes is a landscape architect and lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Director for Infrastructure, Privacy & Security Policy at Digital Europe

Alberto Di Felice leads the Infrastructure, Privacy and Security teams at Digital Europe. He is responsible for data protection, cybersecurity and telecoms.

President of Asia Centre

Jean-François di Meglio is the President of Asia Centre. For twenty years, he has worked in the international financial field, particularly in Asia. From 2005 to 2008, Jean-François di Meglio managed the energy and commodities sector in China for BNP Paribas. He has been a member of the Asia Centre since 2008 and its president since 2009.

President of Asia Centre and teacher at Paris Dauphine University

Jean-François Di Meglio, a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and an alumnus of Peking University, headed the energy and commodities program in China for BNP Paribas, joining the Asia Centre in May 2008 and becoming its President in 2009. He also teaches at SciencesPo Paris and at Dauphine University.

Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Institute for Political Science, University of Tübingen

Political geographer and Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway University

Klaus Dodds is a political geographer and Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway University of London and a Director of Research for the School of Life Sciences and Environment.

Head of Unit Resolution and Crisis Management (DG Fisma) at the European Commission

Marie Donnay joined the European Commission at the end of 2003 and works on financial issues since mid-2005.

President and founder of Cluster17, professor of political science at the University of Montpellier

Jean-Yves Dormagen is the founder and chairman of the Cluster17 polling institute. He is also professor of political science at the University of Montpellier.

President of the Italian Council of Ministers (2021-2022), President of the European Central Bank (2011-2019)

Mario Draghi is an Italian economist, university professor, banker, senior civil servant and statesman. He is Prime Minister of Italy from February 13, 2021 to October 22, 2022. Vice President for Europe at Goldman Sachs from 2002 to 2005, he was Governor of the Bank of Italy from 2006 to 2011, then President of the European Central Bank from 2011 to 2019. President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has asked him to submit a report to the Commission in June 2024 on the Union's competitiveness.

Researcher, University of Trier

Oliver Drewes is a researcher and doctoral candidate at the chair for Western Government and the Political System of Germany of the University of Trier. His research focuses on right-wing extremism, conspiracy theories, party politics and the political system of the EU.

Visiting Professor, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Tímea Drinóczi is Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and a Full Professor at the Faculty of Law, Department of Constitutional Law, of the University of Pécs, Hungary.

Senior Researcher in the Global Issues Programme of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)

Susanne Dröge has been a senior researcher in the Global Issues Programme of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) since 2006.

Professor at the Sorbonne Law School (University of Paris 1)

Professor at the Sorbonne Law School (University of Paris 1), President of the Henri Capitant Association of Friends of French Legal Culture

Economist

Economist. Lecturer at the University of Paris 13, specialist of industrial economics issues.

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Professor of Law and Environmental Policy at the University of Cambridge
Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Law Journal

Professor of Finance at London Business School

Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Tartu
Member of the Scientific Council, BLUE

Piret Ehin is Professor of Comparative Politics and Deputy Head for Research at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu (Estonia).

Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California

Barry Eichengreen is the George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1987. His most recent books is 'In Defense of Public Debt' with Asmaa El-Ganainy, Rui Esteves and Kris Mitchener (Oxford University Press 2021)

Editor, BLUE
Editor, BLUE

Michał Ekiert is a member of BLUE's editorial team.

Senior Analyst at the European Union Institute of Security Studies

Professor of Public Law at the University of Oxford
Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Law Journal

Associate Professo at LUISS Gardo Carli University

Vincenzo Emanuele is Associate Professor of Political Science at LUISS Gardo Carli University.

Deputy Chief Executive & Director of Studies at the European Policy Center

Janis A. Emmanouilidis is Deputy Chief Executive & Director of Studies at the European Policy Center. He joined the EPC in 2009 as a Senior Policy Analyst. He has published widely on the EU's overall political and institutional development, all aspects of the Union's 'poly-crisis', the perspectives of differentiated integration, the Union's foreign, security and defence policy, and on EU enlargement.

Chief diplomatic correspondent in Europe for The New York Times

Deputy Permanent Representative of France to the North Atlantic Council (NATO)

Currently Deputy Permanent Representative of France to the North Atlantic Council (NATO), Alexandre Escorcia was previously Deputy Director of CAPS at the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs. A career diplomat, he began his career in 2005 in the Directorate General of Political and Security Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was subsequently seconded to the Ministry of Defense as Diplomatic Advisor to the Supreme Allied Commander for Transformation in Norfolk until 2012. He then served in Berlin as an exchange diplomat and then as First Secretary in the French Embassy.

Senior correspondent with Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty

Golnaz Esfandiari is a Senior Correspondent in RFE/RL's Central Newsroom and editor of the “Persian Letters” blog.

Political scientist

Adrien Estève is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for International Studies (CERI-Sciences Po), in residence at IRSEM. His current research focuses on the involvement of security and defense actors in climate policies, on the emergence of international forums and networks on climate security, and on the recent evolutions of international conflictuality (lawfare). He holds a PhD in political science from Sciences Po Paris (2020), a MPhil in international and political expertise from Sciences Po Aix (2014) and a MPhil in political science from Sciences Po Paris (2015). He is currently in charge of the research group on "Environment and International Relations" at CERI and of the working group on "Environment and climate" at the Association for War Studies (AEGES). He was also a visiting scholar at Columbia University for the academic year 2017-2018 and in April 2019.

Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, Yale University

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Dean of the Political Science Department and Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome

ergio Fabbrini is Dean of the Political Science Department and Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome, where he holds the Intesa Sanpaolo Chair on European Governance. He was the Pierre Keller Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government for the academic year 2019-2020. His most recent publication in English is Sergio Fabbrini, Europe’s Future: Decoupling and Reforming (Cambridge University Press 2019). He writes political editorials for the Italian financial newspaper “Il Sole 24 Ore”, for which he was awarded the 2017 Spinelli Prize.

Laurent Fabius is a French statesman, currently serving as President of the Constitutional Council.

Laurent Fabius joined the French Socialist Party in 1974 and became deputy mayor of Grand-Quevilly in 1977. He served as a member of parliament for the Seine-Maritime region and then became chief of staff to French President François Mitterrand in 1979. He first became a member of the government as Deputy Minister for the Budget. He became Prime Minister in 1984, the youngest in the history of the Fifth Republic, being only 37 years old at the time. 

Responsible for analysis and research on sub-Saharan Africa at the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

PhD candidate in Political Science at Central European University

Eszter Farkas is a PhD candidate in Political Science at Central European University, in Hungary.

Lecturer in political science at Università di Corsica

André Fazi is a lecturer in political science at the Università di Corsica Pasquale-Paoli. His research focuses on Corsican and Mediterranean politics, regional and multi-level politics, and the issue of insularity.

PhD student at the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University

Jannik Fenger is a PhD student at the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University.

Associate Director, Programs, Berggruen Institute; Associate Editor of Noema Magazine

Yakov Feygin is responsible for developing the research agenda, projects, initiatives and partnerships for the Future of Capitalism program at the Berggruen Institute.

Security and Defence Editor at the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

Writer, researcher and consultant specialising in the Euro-Mediterranean region with a particular focus on Libya

Partner within Gide's M&A / Corporate practice group

Jean-Gabriel Flandrois is a partner within Gide's M&A / Corporate practice group. He is also in charge of the firm's Restructuring - Distressed M&A practice group.

Director of New technologies, Mexico's Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Since March 2019, Diego Flores Jiménez serves as Director for New Technologies and National Security Affairs in the Head of the Chancellor's Office. Previously, he was part of the Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs from 2013 to February 2019 as advisor and assistant private secretary.

Professor at the Sciences Po Law School

Professor of Political Science at ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo

John Erik Fossum is Professor of Political Science at ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo. His main fields of research include political theory, democracy, constitutionalism in the EU and Canada, as well as Europeanisation and transformation of the nation state.

Affiliated to the European Climate Foundation

Co-founder and Chairman of FiveT Hydrogen, CEO of Hy24

Pierre-Etienne Franc is co-founder and chairman of FiveT Hydrogen, an investment platform dedicated to low-carbon hydrogen, and CEO of Hy24, the manager of the world's largest fund dedicated to low-carbon hydrogen infrastructure, the H2 Clean Infra Fund. He is also the co-founder of the Hydrogen Council, of which he was co-secretary between 2017 and 2021.

Historian of science, technology and the environment

Jean-Baptiste Fressoz is a historian of science, technology and the environment at the CNRS.

Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Bologna

Emanuela Fronza teaches "International and European Criminal Law" and "Comparative Criminal Law"; she also teaches "International and Comparative Criminal Law" and "European Criminal Law" in the Second Cycle Degree in Legal Studies. Finally, she teaches "International Criminal Justice" in the Two Year Master in International Relations.

Reporter for POLITICO

Ashleigh is a health care reporter for POLITICO, based in London. Prior to joining POLITICO, Ashleigh was a reporter at the science policy publication Research Fortnight where she covered biomedical research policy. 

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Professor of Economics and Macro-Finance at UWE Bristol

Associate at Reed Smith

EU Chief Negotiator for Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

Chief Economist for Asia Pacific, Natixis

Professor of sociology at the University of the Basque County

Jonatan García Rabadán is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Labor of the University of the Basque County.

Associate Professor of Constitutional Law Department of Public Law I at the Law School of the University of Buenos Aires

Roberto Gargarella is a lawyer and sociologist from the University of Buenos Aires. He holds a doctorate in law from the same university and from the University of Chicago (United States), and has done post-doctoral studies at Balliol College, Oxford University (United Kingdom).

Labour market economist at OECD

Professor of European Studies in the University of Oxford

Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies in the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His essays appear regularly in the New York Review of Books. He writes a column on international affairs in the Guardian and has authored ten books of political writing or ‘history of the present’.

Professor of political science at the University of Lausanne
Member of the Scientific Council, BLUE

Diego Garzia is a professor of political science at the University of Lausanne and a visiting fellow at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies in Fiesole. He is a founding member of the ECPR network dedicated to voting assistance applications and is also a member of the steering committee of the Italian Electoral Study (ITANES).

Ezer Weitzman Professor of National Security in the School of Political Science, Government, and International Affairs at Tel Aviv University

Azar Gat is Ezer Weitzman Professor of National Security in the School of Political Science, Government, and International Affairs at Tel Aviv University. He took his doctorate from the University of Oxford (1986). He is the author of ten books, including, more recently: A History of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Cold War (Oxford, 2001); War in Human Civilization (Oxford, 2006), named one of the best books of the year by the Times Literary Supplement (TLS); Victorious and Vulnerable: Why Democracy Won in the 20th Century and How it is still Imperiled (Hoover, 2010); Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism (Cambridge, 2013); The Causes of War and the Spread of Peace: But Will War Rebound? (Oxford, 2017); War and Strategy in the Modern World: From Blitzkrieg to Unconventional Terrorism, (collected articles and essays; Routledge, 2018); and Ideological Fixation: From the Stone Age to Today’s Culture Wars (Oxford, 2022).

Deputy Director of the EUISS

Florence Gaub is the Deputy Director of the EUISS, where she is in charge of coordinating research activities. In addition, she works on strategic foresight, as well as security and conflict in the Middle East and North Africa.

Professor of private law at the University Panthéon-Assas
Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Law Journal

Director of the Chaire « Grands enjeux stratégiques contemporains » at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Louis Gautier is Associate Professor in Political Science and Director of the Chair "Major Contemporary Strategic Issues" at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and was also Professor of International Relations at the University of Lyon III (2006 - 2012). After graduating from ENA (promotion Solidarité) in 1983, he joined the Cour des Comptes as an auditor and then served as a Chargé de mission to the first President. He was then appointed adviser to the cabinet of the Minister of Culture and Communication (1987-1990), and adviser and then deputy director in the cabinet of the Minister of Defence (1990-1993). From 1993 to 1997, he joined the Cour des Comptes as a referendary advisor. From 1997 to 2002, he was appointed defence advisor to the Prime Minister. In 2002, he was assigned to the seventh chamber of the Cours des Comptes as a sector manager, and then to the third chamber of the Court of Audit. He is currently Attorney General at the Cour des Comptes and was President of the Third Chamber at the Cours des Comptes from 2019 to 2022 as well as Secretary General for Defence and National Security from 2014 to 2018. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Ecole Nationale des Chartes (ENC) and Chairman of the Orientation Council of the National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis (ANRS).

Architect

Kersten Geers is an architect and co-founder of OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen. He teaches at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Professor of Economics

Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Geopolitics of Energy and Raw Materials at Paris-Dauphine University

Professor at the College of Europe and the European Center of Sociology and Political Science at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of the Republic of Moldova

Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics at MINES ParisTech, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)

Matthieu Glachant is a professor of Energy and Environmental Economics at MINES ParisTech, Université PSL. His research focuses on environmental economics, energy economics, and the economics of innovation. He is the author of several books, including L'économie verte contre la crise: 30 propositions pour une France plus soutenable and L'enjeu des ressources génétiques végétales : aspects scientifiques, écologiques et économiques.

Member of the European Parliament

Raphaël Glucksmann is a member of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, MEP since July 2019.

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of Spain

Arancha Gonzalez Laya was Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation from January 13, 2020 to July 12, 2021 in the Sanchez government of Spain.

Lecturer at the PACTE research center (Sciences Po Grenoble)

Florent Gougou holds a doctorate in political science. He is a lecturer at the PACTE research center of Sciences Po Grenoble, specializing in electoral sociology. His research focuses on the transformation of electoral power relations in Western Europe. He has directed or co-directed several national electoral and post-electoral studies in France, including the French Election Study 2017 (with Nicolas Sauger).

Assistant Professor, Law & Finance cluster of the Leibniz Institute

Professor of geopolitics and geopolitics of religions

President, Groupe d'études géopolitiques

European Commission economic adviser to the Delors Committee

Director of Paradigmes et cætera; former technical advisor to Prime Ministers Edouard Balladur and Alain Juppé

Director of Paradigmes et cætera; former technical advisor to Prime Ministers Edouard Balladur and Alain Juppé.

Executive Director, Institute for European Policies and Reforms (IPRE)

Executive Director, Institute for European Policies and Reforms (IPRE)

Senior Analyst at Merics

Nis Grünberg is Senior Analyst at Merics. His research focuses on state-party governance, elite politics as well as China’s sustainable development. He has published on the Chinese energy sector and worked on state-owned enterprise reform. Nis also coordinates research in the Politics & Society team at MERICS.

Associate professor of international law

Research associate at the University of Bremen

Matthias Güldner is a research associate at the Center for Work and Politics at the University of Bremen.

Partner Latham & Watkins

Jacques-Philippe Gunther is a partner at Latham & Watkins and Vice Chair of the firm’s Global Antitrust & Competition practice.

Professor at Comenius University in Bratislava
Member of the Scientific Council, BLUE

Olga Gyárfášova is a professor at Comenius University in Bratislava where until 2020 she served as director of the Institute for European Studies and International Relations.

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Group general counsel of TotalEnergies
Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Law Journal

Lecturer

Pierre Haroche is Lecturer in International Relations and International Security at Queen Mary University of London.

Director of the Institute of European Studies at the University of Malta
Member of the Scientific Council, BLUE

Mark Harwood is Director of the Institute of European Studies at the University of Malta, where he teaches comparative European politics.

Lecturer in political science at Université de Lille

Tristan Haute is a lecturer in political science at the University of Lille and a researcher at the Centre d'études et de recherches administratives politiques et sociales (CERAPS). His research focuses on voting and participation in both political and professional contexts.

Economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies

François Heisbourg is Special Advisor to the IISS and Special Advisor to the FRS

François Heisbourg is Special Advisor to the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and Special Advisor to the President of the Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS). Previously, he was President of the IISS and of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy.

Professor at Harvard Business School, Research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Ph.D. Candidate in Law at the Sciences Po Law School

Joachim-Nicolas Herrera is a Ph.D. Candidate in Law under the supervision of Professor Louis Assier-Andrieu. His research intersects law, history, anthropology and economics.

Research fellow at the Institute for Social Research in Oslo

Stine Hesstvedt is a doctor of political science and a researcher at the Institute for Social Science Research (Institutt for Samfunnsforskning) in Oslo. Her research focuses on electoral and political behavior and public policy. She has participated in the 2017 and 2021 Norwegian National Election Studies (NNES).

Lecturer, Department of French Language and Culture, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan

Jean-Yves Heurtebise, Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Aix-Marseille, is a lecturer at FuJen Catholic University (Taipei, Taiwan).

Head of International relations at the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats

Rasmus Hindrén is Head of International relations at the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats and a nonresident senior fellow with the Transatlantic Security Initiative in the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.

Professor and Director of the “Global Economics” research area at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies

Former President of the French Republic.

François HOLLANDE was born on 12 August 1954 in Rouen. He has four children. François HOLLANDE is a graduate of HEC Paris and of the Institut d'études politiques de Paris. He is a former student of the École nationale d'administration (ENA), promotion Voltaire in 1980. In 1980, he became an auditor at the Cour des Comptes. In 1981, following the election of François MITTERRAND to the presidency of the Republic, François HOLLANDE was appointed chargé de mission at the Élysée. In 1983, he was appointed chief of staff to two ministers in the Pierre MAUROY government. In the 1988 legislative elections, following the re-election of François MITTERRAND, he was elected deputy for the first constituency of Corrèze. From 1988 to 1991, he was professor of economics at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris. In 1993, he became president of Jacques DELORS' "Témoin" club, which he kept until 1997. In 1995, he was the spokesman for the Socialist Party. In 1997, after Lionel Jospin's victory in the legislative elections, François HOLLANDE became First Secretary of the Socialist Party. He remained in this position until 2008. Mayor of Tulle from 2001 to 2008, President of the Corrèze General Council from 2008 to 2012, he was a Member of Parliament from 1988 to 2012. After his victory in the Socialist primary in October 2011, François HOLLANDE was declared winner of the presidential election on 6 May 2012. He became the 7th Head of State of the 5th Republic. He now chairs the Fondation la France s'engage, which supports projects focused on commitment and social innovation. Since his departure from the Elysée, he has written several works of reflection on his political career, "Les leçons du pouvoir", the functioning of the Fifth Republic, "Réponse à la crise démocratique", "Leur République", "Leur Etat" expliquée aux jeunes et aux moins jeunes. On the occasion of the release of these books, he held numerous book signings, thus multiplying his meetings with the French. Finally, he is the honorary president of the association "Stop Corruption" created by Michel Sapin, Michel Hinault, Daniel Lebèque and Gérard Rameix.

W.R Kenan Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Director of the China-Germany Energy Transition Project at GIZ

Anders Hove is director of the China-Germany Energy Transition Project at GIZ, (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), a German company providing services in international development cooperation. 

Head of Energy and Environment Division at the International Energy Agency

Editor-in-chief, BLUE

François Hublet is BLUE's editor-in-chief. A graduate from ETH Zurich and École polytechnique, he is a researcher and doctoral candidate at ETH Zurich.

MEP since 2009, former European Commissioner for Regional Policy and former Polish Minister for European Affairs

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Professor in Comparative Politics at the University of Latvia
Member of the Scientific Council, BLUE

Jānis Ikstens is a Professor in Comparative Politics at the University of Latvia.

Emeritus professor at the University of Aberdeen

Tim Ingold is Emeritus professor at the University of Aberdeen. He was appointed to a Chair at the University of Manchester in 1990, and in 1995 he became Max Gluckman Professor of Social Anthropology. He was Editor of 'Man' (the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute) from 1990 to 1992, and edited the Routledge 'Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology', published in 1994. In 1988 he founded the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory, and edited a volume of the first six annual debates ('Key Debates in Anthropology', 1996). He was elected to a Fellowship of the British Academy in 1997, and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2000. In 1999 he was President of the Anthropology and Archaeology Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

Researcher at Krems University of Further Education

Daniela Ingruber is a researcher at Krems University of Further Education.

Associate Professor in Political Theory, City College of New York (CUNY).

Editor of the EUobserver magazine

Shada Islam is Editor of the EUobserver magazine. She is a political analyst and commentator on European Union affairs based in Brussels, who works independently as an advisor/analyst/strategist on issues related to Europe, Africa, Asia, geopolitics, trade and inclusion. Ms. Islam is a member of the European Policy Centre's Strategy Board and a senior advisor to its Europe in the World program. She is also a founding member of the EU-Asia Centre. She worked for nine years as Director of Europe and Geopolitics at Friends of Europe, an influential independent think tank based in Brussels. She now runs her own Brussels-based global strategy and consultancy firm, New Horizons Project.

CNRS researcher at CEVIPOF (Sciences Po Paris)

Gilles Ivaldi is a CNRS research fellow in political science at the CEVIPOF (Sciences Po Paris). He is a specialist in the radical right and populism in Western Europe, as well as their relationship to Euroscepticism and nationalism.

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Research engineer at CESDIP/CNRS

Antoine Jardin holds a doctorate in political science. He is a CNRS research engineer at the Centre de recherches sociologiques sur le droit et les institutions pénales (CESDIP), and teaches at Sciences Po Paris and the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin. His research focuses on the political behavior of European suburban areas.

Editor, BLUE
Editor, BLUE

Juuso Järviniemi graduated from the University of Edinburgh and the College of Europe. He is a member of BLUE's editorial team.

Director of the European Union Research Program at FIIA, Finnish Institute of the International Affairs

Juha Jokela is the Director of the European Union Research Program at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. He has worked at the EU Institute for Security Studies as a Senior Associate Analyst and Senior Visiting Researcher, an advisor to the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and a researcher and director of the European Studies Network at the University of Helsinki.

Director General of Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (GROW) at the European Commission

Nonresident Senior Fellow at The Atlantic Council

Ben Judah is a foreign policy writer based in New York. His current research focuses on the foreign policy of the Biden-Harris administration, transnational kleptocracy, and Britain's attempts to reset its diplomatic posture after the Brexit.

Member of the European Parliament

Former Defense Minister of Lithuania. Member of the European Parliament.

Former President of the European Commission

Jean-Claude Juncker was President of the European Commission from 2014 to 2019.

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Partner at the Reed Smith Paris office

University Professor of European Studies at the University of Portsmouth, England

Wolfram Kaiser is University Professor of European Studies at the University of Portsmouth, England and visiting Professor at the College of Europe since 1996

Chief Assist. Professor at Sofia University „St. Kliment Ohridski“.

Desislava Kalcheva is a Chief Assist. Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University „St. Kliment Ohridski“.

Professor

Mary Kaldor is Professor of Global Governance, Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit at the London School of Economics and CEO of the DFID funded Justice and Security Research Programme. She is the author of several books, including 'The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon: Human Security and the Changing Rules of war and Peace', ‘New and Old Wars: Organised Violence in a Global Era’ and ‘Global Civil Society: An Answer to War’. She was co-chair of the Helsinki Citizens Assembly, a member of the International Independent Commission on Kosovo and convenor of the Human Security Study Group, which reported to Javier Solana.

Deputy Rector, University of New York Tirana

Ilir Kalemaj is an Associate Professor at the University of New York Tirana and the Deputy Rector of this institution. He holds a PhD in political science from the Central European University (Budapest). His research focuses on ethnicity, nationalism, democratic transition and geopolitics, with a particular interest in Albanian issues.

Prime Minister of Estonia

Co-Director Kiel Initiative in Geopolitics and Economics

Historian and researcher at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3

Associate Professor, New Bulgarian Université (Sofia)

Dobrin Kanev is an Associate Professor in political science at the New Bulgarian University (Sofia). His research focuses on Bulgarian, Central and Eastern European politics.

Associate Professor at University of Sarajevo

Damir Kapidžić is an associate professor of comparative politics at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Sarajevo.

Director for External Relations at the Secretariat-General of the European Commission

Professor in Politics at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and ESRC Senior Fellow

Associate professor at the University of Nicosia

Yiannos Katsourides is an associate professor at the Department of Politics and Governance, University of Nicosia.

Brussels Correspondent for France 24 and a Nonresident Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council

Dave Keating is the Brussels Correspondent for France 24 and a Nonresident Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council. He also writes for the New Statesman, Energy Monitor, IP Quarterly, Euractiv, Forbes and World Politics Review. Previously he was the editor of EuropeanVoice.com, a side publication of The Economist.​​

CNRS research director at the Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale (Collège de France)

CNRS research director at the Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale (Collège de France)

Professor of Political Science and Law and Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Politics at Rutgers University

Member of the European Parliament

President of the Sami Parliament of Norway

Sociologist

Razmig Keucheyan is professor of sociology at the university of Paris Cité. His work draws inspiration from classical and contemporary Marxism. He is a member of the editorial board of Actuel Marx.

Professor at the International University of Valencia

Nadia Khalil Tolosa is a Professor at the International University of Valencia.

EU Correspondent for The Financial Times

Founder & CEO, Global Sovereign Advisory

Professor, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin.

Resident senior fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the United States

Former Secretary of State, Nobel Prize for Peace

Researcher in political science at Syddansk Universitet

Ulrik Kjær has a PhD in political science. He is a lecturer at Syddansk Universitet. His research focuses on municipal elections, local democracy, political parties and gender issues in politics, from a Danish and comparative perspective. He has coordinated several monographs on Danish municipal elections.

Professor at the University of Bremen

Andreas Klee is a political scientist and Professor at the University of Bremen

Professor at the Leibniz University of Hannover

Markus Klein is a professor at the Institute of Political Science at the Leibnitz University in Hanover.

Editor, BLUE
Editor, BLUE

Charlotte Kleine graduated from Glasgow University. She is a member of BLUE's editorial team.

Director for Policy, Strategy and Outreach at DG Connect, European Commission

Thibaut KLEINER is the Director for Policy, Strategy and Outreach at DG Connect. He has worked since 2001 at the European Commission. The first ten years of his career in the Commission were spent in the area of competition policy (merger, antitrust and State aid). He was notably member of the cabinet of Neelie Kroes, Commissioner for Competition, in 2007-2010 and head of unit for State aid coordination in DG Competition. In September 2011, he moved to the digital policy area, as advisor of Vice-President Neelie Kroes.

Researcher at the Jacques Delors Institute - Berlin on political-institutional issues

Nicole Koenig is a researcher at the Jacques Delors Institute - Berlin on political-institutional issues. Previously, she worked at TEPSA (Trans European Policy Studies Association) in Brussels, the Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome, the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam and the Department of War Studies at King's College London.

Law Professor and Researcher

Emilia Korkea-aho is a Professor of European Law and Legislative Studies at the University of Eastern Finland, researcher in the Finnish Research Council-funded research project on revolving doors and their regulation (REVOLVE, 2021-2025), and the Kone Foundation research project on political influence and lobbying in Finnish municipal politics (LoSKa, 2023-2026).

Associate Professor at University of Copenhagen

Karina Kosiara-Pedersen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen.

Professor of Public Policy Analysis and Public Administration at the University of Ljubljana
Member of the Scientific Council, BLUE

Alenka Krašovec is a professor at the University of Ljubljana, holding the chair of public policy analysis and public administration.

Political scientist and chairman of the Center for Liberal Strategies in Sofia

Founding partner at Shearwater and author of the book “The Strongmen”

Hans Kribbe is a founding partner at Shearwater and author of the book “The Strongmen”. Previously, he was a political adviser at the European Commission, working with Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes and Internal Market and Taxation Commissioner Frits Bolkestein.

Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Vienna
Member of the Scientific Council, BLUE

Sylvia Kritzinger is Professor for Methods in the Social Sciences at the University of Vienna and Deputy Director of the Vienna Centre for Electoral Research.

Professor of Political Science at Charles University in Prague and the University of West Bohemia (Pilsen)
Membre du Conseil scientifique, BLUE

Michal Kubát is a Professor of Political Science at the Institute of International Studies of the Faculty of Social Science, Charles University.

Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and professor of international affairs at Georgetown University in Washington D.C

Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milan

Anna Kyriazi is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milan.

Dean of The Fletcher School at Tufts University, former World Bank Group vice president and special envoy for climate change

Rachel Kyte is the 14th dean of The Fletcher School at Tufts University. Prior to joining Fletcher, she served as special representative of the UN secretary-general and chief executive officer of Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL). She previously was the World Bank Group vice president and special envoy for climate change, leading the run-up to the Paris Agreement. She was also vice president at the International Finance Corporation responsible for ESG risk and business advisory services.

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Partner at Hellring Lindeman Goldstein & Siegal LLP

politician

Fanny Lacroix is mayor of Châtel-en-Triève, in Isère, since March 2020, but also vice-president of the rural mayors of France. Initially responsible for the environment and citizenship department of the city of Saint-Martin-d'Hères, she then became secretary of the town hall in Châtel-en-Trièves. It is in this small village in the South of Isère that she was able to participate in the implementation of a rural revitalization policy based on the mobilization of citizens. She is also the founder and president of the association "Tous et Maintenant, Réinvestir la vie publique" (All and Now, Reinvesting in Public Life) which works to make politics everyone's business. Fanny Lacroix is also vice-president of the community of communes of Trièves in charge of tourism. She is very involved in the office of the Association of Rural Mayors of Isère. In July 2022, she joined the executive board of the Mouvement Démocrate.

Emeritus Professor at the European University Institute

Brigid Laffan is Emeritus Professor at the European University Institute. Previously, she was Director and Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and Director of the Global Governance Programme at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. 

Special advisor to Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security and Vice-President of the European Commission

Zaki Laïdi is a professor at Sciences Po and special advisor to Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security and Vice-President of the European Commission. He is the author of "Norms Over Force", Palgrave. His contributions are strictly his own views.

Professor at University of Ljubljana

Damjan Lajh is a professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana.

Chairman of the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation

Norbert Lammert is President of the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation and a member of the CDU (EPP).

5th Director General of the World Trade Organization

Editor, BLUE

Mattéo Lanoë is a member of BLUE's editorial team.

Director for Africa at the European External Action Service

Rita Laranjinha is the Director for Africa at the European External Action Service. She was previously Ambassador of Portugal to Denmark and Lithuania.

Vice-President of the Saami Council

Ms Åsa Larsson Blind is currently Vice-President of the Saami Council. She was elected President of the Saami Council in February 2017. She has been a member of the Saami Council since 2008 and elected vice president in 2011.

Vice-President of the Conseil d’État

Bruno Lasserre was appointed Vice President of the Conseil d'État on May 16, 2018 and took office on May 29, 2018.

Policy Officer, Security and Defence Policy, European External Action Service (EEAS)

Tania Latici is Policy Officer, Security and Defence Policy at the European External Action Service (EEAS). Previously, she served as Policy Analyst on security and defence in the European Parliamentary Research Service – the in-house think tank of the European Parliament – where she supports MEPs with specialised input, while regularly publishing on issues ranging from the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy and defence cooperation to EU-NATO cooperation and others.

Philosopher

Online content editor for Le Grand Continent

Amélie Latreille is a student civil servant in the Geography department of the École normale supérieure and is news editor for the Energy and Environment section of Le Grand Continent. She is also an ESG development intern in Amundi's commercial and institutional department.

Head of the External Policies Unit of the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS)

Elena Lazarou is the Head of the External Policies Unit of the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS), where her research focuses on security and defence, global governance, transatlantic relations and EU foreign policy. Prior to joining EPRS, she headed the Center for International Relations of the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), Brazil (2012-2014) and the Euro-Mediterranean Observatory of the Hellenic Center for European Studies (2009-2010).

Assistant Professor of International Law, Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden University.

Chatham House

Research Director, Futures; Hoffmann Distinguished Fellow for Sustainability; Chair, Sustainability Accelerator Advisory Board

Independent Counsel

Law Professor and Researcher

Juliette Lelieur is a Professor of Criminal Law and the President of the Advisory Board of the University Press of Strasbourg. Her research interests include the repression of economic and financial crime, the fight against money laundering and corruption, criminal justice and artificial intelligence, international and European judicial cooperation in criminal matters, as well as comparative law (German criminal law and German criminal trials).

Former french minister of european Affairs
Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Law Journal

Partner, Taylor Wessing (Bratislava)

Lawyer, Co-Chair of the MENE

Corinne Lepage is a lawyer, doctor of law, former Minister of the Environment (1995-1997) and former MEP (2009-2014).

Researcher, Charles University (Prague)

Martin Lepič is a researcher at the department of social geography and regional development of Charles University in Prague. His research focuses on independence movements, separatism and rural development.

Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po and Visiting professor at the College of Europe

President of the Jacques Delors Institute, former Italian Prime Minister (2013-2014)

Enrico Letta is an Italian statesman, currently President of the Jacques Delors Institute and Secretary of the Italian Democratic Party. He became Minister for Community Policies in 1998, then Minister for Industry between 1999 and 2001. He then became a Member of Parliament and then an MEP.

Chief of Staff of Enrico Letta

Chief of staff of Enrico Letta (Democratic Party of Italy)

Fellow for International Climate Policy and Diplomacy at the UN Foundation

David Levaï is a Fellow for International Climate Policy and Diplomacy at the UN Foundation as well as Associate Researcher at IDDRI (Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales). His work focuses on climate issues and climate negotiations under the Paris Agreement. 

Researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU Shanghai and Global Network Assistant Professor at NYU

Yifei Li is an assistant professor of Environmental Studies at NYU Shanghai and a global network assistant professor at NYU. He previously taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a residential fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich for the 2020-2021 academic year.

Senior lecturer (Privatdozent) in political science at the University of Vienna

Karin Liebhart is a political scientist. She is a senior lecturer (Privatdozent) at the University of Vienna and the University of Trnava.

Lecturer, University of Glasgow

Robert Liñeira is a lecturer in political science at the University of Glasgow. He received his PhD from the University of Barcelona, and held academic positions at the University of Edinburgh and the Autonomous University of Madrid. His research focuses on multi-level systems, multi-national polities and referendum with a quantitative approach.

Tragen Professor of Law, and Co-Director, Miller Center for Global Challenges and the Law, UC Berkeley

Marco Lisi is an Associate Professor at NOVA University Lisbon

Marco Lisi is an Associate Professor at NOVA University Lisbon, in the Political Studies department.

Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence of the European Parliament

Nathalie Loiseau is the Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence of the European Parliament. From 2017 to 2019, she was minister in charge of European Affairs in the second Édouard Philippe government.

Staff Editor 'Books' Le Grand Continent

Associate Professor at Ljubljana University

Marko Lovec is an Associate Professor at the Chair of International Relations of Ljubljana University, Faculty of Social Sciences.

Senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform

Sam is a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform. He is also a visiting senior research fellow at The Policy Institute, Kings College London and a co-founder of the UK Trade Forum.

Director of the Institute of European Demography in Vienna

Director of the Institute of European Demography in Vienna

Associate professor of political science at Sofia University

Milen Lyubenov is a political scientist. He is an associate professor of political science at Sofia University St. Kliment-Ohridski.

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Former Europe Minister in the Portuguese government (2013-2015)

Director of the Dijon campus of Sciences Po, Head of the Centre Grande Europe of the Jacques Delors Institute

President of the French Republic

Mayor of Charleroi, president of the Belgian Socialist Party, professor of political theory at the Free University of Brussels

Paul Magnette is a professor of political theory at the Free University of Brussels. He was Minister of Energy and Climate in the Belgian federal government and Minister-President of Wallonia. He is currently mayor of Charleroi and president of the Belgian Socialist Party.

Distinguished Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

Architect

Georgios Maillis is an architect and has been managing the Charleroi Bouwmeester office since 2013.

Swedish author and associate professor of human ecology at Lund University

EU’s Special envoy for Arctic matters

Researcher at the Department of Geography of Laval University (Canada) and Limoges University (France)

Simon Maraud is researcher at the Department of Geography of Laval University (Canada) and Limoges University (France). He does research in critical geography regarding the capitalistic exploitation of natural resources and the notion of decolonization in Indigenous territories.

Chief economist, Global Sovereign Advisory

Lecturer in Economics at Université Paris Sud, researcher at the College of International Studies

Jean Paul Maréchal is a lecturer in Economics at Université Paris Sud. He is also a researcher at the College of International Studies, a member of the Asia-Imasia network at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme and the CNRS, and an associate researcher at the ASIEs research unit at INALCO.

Lecturer in economics at the University of Paris Sud

Jean-Paul Maréchal is a lecturer in economics at the Université Paris Sud. His research focuses on climate economics and China's strategy to combat global warming.

Editor, BLUE
Editor, BLUE

Sofia Marini is a researcher at the University of Vienna and a member of BLUE's editorial team.

Head of IAI Defence Programme

Alessandro Marrone is Head of IAI Defence Programme. He has been working at IAI since 2007, and currently manages research projects and publications related to European and transatlantic security as well as to Italy’s defence policy. He is also professor at the Istituto Superiore di Stato Maggiore Interforze (ISSMI) of the Italian Ministry of Defence and has been teaching for four years at the University of Perugia.

Political scientist, research engineer, Pacte laboratory (Grenoble)
Member of the Scientific Council, BLUE

Pierre Martin is a political scientist and research engineer at the Pacte social science laboratory (Grenoble), a joint CNRS-Grenoble University-IEP Grenoble research unit.

Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the Autonomous University of Madrid
Member of the Scientific Council, BLUE

Irene Martín Cortés is a Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the Autonomous University of Madrid.

Professor, Panthéon-Assas University

Francesco Martucci is a Doctor of Public Law and Professor of Public Law at the University of Panthéon-Assas.

Assistant Professor, The University of Arizona Department of Political Economy and Moral Science

Associate professor at the University of Trento

Emanuele Massetti is Associate professor at the Department of Sociology and social research at the University of Trento.

Head of European policies at Ifri's Energy & Climate Centre

Before joining Ifri's Energy & Climate Centre, where she currently works, Carole Mathieu was a project manager at the French Energy Regulatory Commission between 2010 and 2014

Professor at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Charles-François Mathis is a university professor at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Associate researcher at the Sciences Po Paris History Research Center

Edenz Maurice holds a doctorate in history. He is the scientific secretary of the Mission pour l'histoire préfectorale and a research associate at the Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po Paris. His research focuses on the history of the French colonial and post-colonial state and of French Guiana, particularly in the field of education, as well as on the sociology of colonial and post-colonial elites.

Professor of Labour Law and Social Security Law at Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil

Researcher, University of Glasgow

Fraser McMillan is a political science researcher at the University of Glasgow.

Associate professor at Universitat de Barcelona

LLuís Medir is an Associate Professor at Universitat de Barcelona.

Director of the China Energy Programme at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies

Michal Meidan is director of the China Energy Program at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. She has previously worked at Energy Aspects and directed China Matters, an independent research firm producing analysis on Chinese energy policy. She was also a researcher at Eurasia Group in London and New York and at the Asia Centre in Paris.

Professor at Salamanca University’s History and Geography department

Luis Mena Martínez, PhD in Sociology, is a professor at Salamanca University’s History and Geography department.

PhD, Associate at August Debouzy (Paris)

Director of the CERIUM (The Montréal Centre for International Studies) and Professor of Political Science at the University of Montréal

Associate professor of geopolitics and geography at the University of Haute-Alsace and lecturer in Geopolitics and Geography at Institut Français de Géopolitique

Teva Meyer is Associate professor of geopolitics and geography at the University of Haute-Alsace and lecturer in Geopolitics and Geography at Institut Français de Géopolitique.

Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Castilla-La Mancha

Josu Mezo is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Castilla-La Mancha.

Head of the Public Regulatory Environment Department at August Debouzy
Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Law Journal

Attorney at the Paris Bar and partner at August Debouzy
Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Law Journal

Associate Professor at the University of Salzburg

Eric Miklin is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Salzburg.

Research Associate at the Chair for Western Government Systems at the University of Trier

Marius Minas is currently doing his doctorate with Prof. Uwe Jun at the University of Trier on the subject of measuring intra-party leadership. As part of his dissertation, an index and a suitable measurement method are to be developed that allow a comparable evaluation of party leadership.

Essayist, President of A.M. Conseil, author of Ma vie avec Marx, Gallimard, 2021

Former High-Representative of the European Union

Fellow in the Asia Program of the German Marshall Fund of the United States

Lecturer in Law à l’Australian National University

Lecturer in Economics at Université Paris Dauphine and associate researcher at CEPII
Scientific director of the issue #1 of GREEN

Stéphanie Monjon is a lecturer in Economics at Université Paris Dauphine and an associate researcher at CEPII. She is the Environmental Responsibility Coordinator at Université Paris Dauphine. She previously worked at the French Environment and Energy Management Agency (AEME) for five years as a senior economist. She was also an associate researcher at the Centre International de Recherche sur l'Environnement de le Développement (CIRED).

Economist

Director of studies at the EHESS and teacher at the Paris School of Economics. Ecric Monnet seeking to better understand how the evolution of finance, state intervention in credit markets, central banking and the international monetary system has shaped European economies since the 19th century.

Professor of Administrative Law and Economic Regulation in the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

Juan Montero is a Professor of Administrative Law and Economic Regulation in the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) in Madrid. He is a Member of the Scientific Committee of the Florence School of Regulation where has been working since 2016 and was appointed part-time professor in February 2018.

Independent consultant to the UN and other international organizations, as senior policy advisor, field practitioner, and researcher on forced migration, human rights and humanitarian issues.

Urban planning architect

Benoit Moritz is professor of urban planning at the Faculty of Architecture of the Université Libre de Bruxelles and co-coordinator of Metrolab.Brussels.

Former European Commissioner

Pierre Moscovici is the First President of the French Cour des comptes since June 3rd, 2020. In this capacity, he also chairs the Budgetary and Financial Discipline Court, the High Council of Public Finance and the Council of Mandatory Contributions.

Head of the Anti-Corruption Division in the Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs of the OECD

Founder, Open Border Institute

Assistant Professor of Modern European History, Cornell University

Nicholas Mulder is an Assistant Professor of Modern European History in the Department of History at Cornell University

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Founding Dean, Columbia Climate School Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University

Partner at Hogan Levell

Legal Fellow, REDRESS

Researcher in political science at Université de Toulouse

Marie Neihouser holds a doctorate in political science. She is a researcher at Université de Toulouse III - Paul-Sabatier. Her research focuses on the sociology of politics and the media, particularly on the use of the Internet and social networks in contexts of political mobilization.

Policy Fellow for EU Institutions and Democracy at the Jacques Delors Centre

Thu Nguyen is a Policy Fellow for EU Institutions and Democracy at the Jacques Delors Centre. Before joining the Centre, she was an Assistant Professor of comparative constitutional law at the Department of Public Law at Maastricht University.

Professor of International Relations at Oxford University

Kalypso Nicolaidis is the Chair of International Relations at the School of International Governance of the European University Institute in Florence and Professor of International Relations at Oxford.

Professor at Oxford

Kalypso Nicolaïdis is an international relations professor at the Oxford University, and the author of the recently published "Exodus, Reckoning, Sacrifice: Three Meanings of Brexit."

Associate Professor at University of Ljubljana

Meta Novak is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana.

Macroeconomist

Kako Nubukpo is a macroeconomist and former Minister for Foresight and Public Policy Evaluation in Togo.

University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus and former Dean of the Harvard's Kennedy School of Government

Joseph S. Nye Jr. is University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus and former Dean of the Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He has served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Chair of the National Intelligence Council, and Deputy Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology.

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Chief Economist at the Centre for European Reform

Christian Odendahl is chief economist at the Centre for European Reform. He works on European monetary and fiscal policy, European integration and economic growth, financial markets and German politics. He is a regular commentator on economic issues in print and broadcast media, including the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Deutschlandfunk and the BBC. Prior to joining the ERC, Christian Odendahl worked as a senior economist at Roubini Global Economics in London on the eurozone, the ECB and Germany, and as a Marjorie Deane financial journalism fellow at The Economist. Christian holds a PhD in economics from Stockholm University, with chapters published in the European Economic Review and the European Journal of Political Economy.

Visiting Professor at the Institut d’Études Européennes of the Université Libre de Bruxelles

Professor of Political Science at the University of Iceland

Eva H. Önnudóttir is a professor of political science at the University of Iceland. She is a specialist in Icelandic political dynamics. She has contributed to the European Social Survey (ESS) and the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES).

Géographe

Florian Opillard is a geographer, researcher at IRSEM in the "Defense and Society" team and associate researcher at the Center for Research and Documentation on the Americas (IHEAL-CREDA). He holds an Agrégation in geography and a PhD from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (2018), and was a visiting doctoral student at the University of Berkeley (USA). His doctoral research questioned the spatial dimension of urban conflicts and the political economy of contemporary urban production, as well as the processes of politicization of everyday life. As part of his doctoral research, he conducted a comparative investigation of several months in the United States (San Francisco) and Chile (Valparaiso) with organizations involved in the struggles against gentrification processes. His current research analyzes the production of discourse on the adaptation of armies to climate change, the transformation of value systems and the forms of engagement of the military. He is currently the scientific coordinator of the ANR project "ARMY" (CEVIPOF/IRSEM) which analyzes military mobilizations in the health crisis of the COVID-19 in Europe and the United States: https://anrarmy.hypotheses.org.

Professor at the University of Gothenburg
Member of the Scientific Council, BLUE

Maria Oskarson is a professor at the University of Gothenburg. She is a member of the steering committee of the European Social Survey for Sweden, which she has led since 2014, as well as a member of the steering committee of the MEDem (Monitoring electoral democracy) project.

Professor of political science at the University of Burgos

Patricia Otero-Felipe is Professor of political science at the University of Burgos.

Assistant Professor, Leiden University

Simon Otjes is an assistant professor of Dutch Politics at Leiden University.

Executive Director Fraunhofer ISST

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Law and finance professor at the Amsterdam Law School and the Amsterdam Business School

Partner, Taylor Wessing

Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Senior researcher at Eurac Research

Günther Pallaver is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Innsbruck.

Geographer

Angélique Palle holds a doctorate in geography from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, where she worked over the course of her thesis on the issue of energy supply and transition in the European Union, as well as on the dynamics of regional integration. Since October 2017, she has been a researcher at the IRSEM in the domain of Weapons and Defense Economics. She is working on energy supply and transition, and on the impacts of global environmental change on armed forces. She is a civilian trainee of the 137th promotion of the French Army War College and contributes to two of IRSEM’s research axis, “Covid and Armed Forces” and “Adaptation and Climate Security”.

Deputy-Director General responsible for nuclear energy, safety and ITER at the European Commission

Jan Panek is Deputy-Director General responsible for nuclear energy, safety and ITER at the European Commission. Priori to his current position, Jan Panek was Head of Unit dealing with retail energy markets coal and oil in the Directorate-General for Energy of the European Commission. He joined the European Commission in 2005 following an earlier career in the diplomatic service of the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs during which he occupied positions in the Ministry' headquarters as well as in Czech diplomatic missions in Tokyo and Brussels.

Head of the Geopolitics of Technology program at Ifri

Alice Pannier is in charge of the Geopolitics of Technologies program, launched at Ifri in October 2020, after having been an associate researcher since 2019. Her research focuses on the geopolitical dimension of new technologies, European technology policies, and transatlantic relations. She has also worked for a long time on European security and foreign and defense policies of European countries, particularly France and the United Kingdom.

Chair at the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute

George Papaconstantinou is Chair at the School of Transnational Governance and Director of the School's executive education programme. He is an economist who holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and has served government at the highest level, as Member of Parliament, Member of European Parliament (MEP), Greece’s Finance Minister and Minister of Environment and Energy.

Professor of Law, Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School in São Paulo (FGV Direito SP); Global Professor of Law, New York University School of Law

Secrétaire général, CEVIPOF / Sciences Po (Paris)
Member of the scientific council, BLUE

Florent Parmentier is a political scientist. He is Secrétaire Général of the CEVIPOF (Sciences Po, Paris). His research focuses on geopolitics, post-Soviet Eastern Europe and its relations with the European Union.

Senior researcher at the Vienna Center for Electoral Research (VieCER)

Julia Partheymüller is a senior researcher at the Vienna Center for Electoral Research (VieCER)

Editor in chief – Revue européenne du droit

Hugo Pascal is a legal researcher and lecturer in law. Research assistant to Mireille Delmas-Marty (Professor emeritus at the Collège de France, Member of the French Institute), he is interested in the way globalisation invites to rethink normativity and the role of private actors in the regulation phenomenon. Author of several articles in leading legal journals, he directed the Sciences Po Law Review (2018-2019) before joining its scientific board (2019-2020).

Professeur d’histoire européenne et globale à l’université de Leuven

Professor of European and Global History at the University of Leuven and author.

Professor of Private Law at the Sorbonne Law School (University of Paris 1)

Étienne Pataut is Professor of Private Law at the Sorbonne Law School (University of Paris 1), co-director of the Revue Trimestrielle de droit européen and French member of the European Group of Private International Law.

President of the European Institute of the University of Lisbon

Eduardo Paz Ferreira is a Professor of Law at the University of Lisbon, the President of the European Institute and of the Institute for Economic, Financial and Fiscal Law. He obtained his PhD from the University of Lisbon in 1994. His research focuses on economic, competition, fiscal and and European Law.

Professor of European Law and Head of the Law and Politics Department at Middlesex University

Laurent Pech is Professor of European Law, Jean Monnet Chair of European Public Law (2014-17) and Head of the Law and Politics Department at Middlesex University London. He is also a Visiting Professor of Law at Bordeaux University, an expert for eLabEurope, and a member of the editorial board of the Hague Journal on the Rule of Law as well as a member of the scientific board of the Montesquieu Law Review. He has been a visiting professor at many institutions, including his alma mater: Aix-Marseille University. In 2018, Professor Pech was appointed Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute. He is currently a member of a H2020 funded four-year multidisciplinary research project on "Reconciling Europe with its Citizens through Democracy and the Rule of Law" (RECONNECT).

Membre associé à Chatham House

Project Manager at the Commission de régulation de l'énergie
Co-Editor in chief of GREEN

Clémence Pelegrin is project manager at the Commission de régulation de l'énergie and director of the Energy and Environment program at the Groupe d'études géopolitiques. She was previously an investment analyst at Amundi Transition Energétique, a strategic analyst at ENGIE, in the strategy department of the BU France BtoC, and a research assistant at IRIS in energy security, energy geopolitics and energy policy.

Director of the Energy Centre of the Jacques Delors Institute Senior Researcher, European Energy Policy

Thomas Pellerin-Carlin is currently Director of the Energy Centre of the Jacques Delors Institute and a researcher at the Jacques Delors Institute. He works on European energy policy, particularly in its dimensions related to innovation and climate change.

Emeritus Professor, University Paris Nanterre and Former Member and Chairperson, International Law Commission

Director for fiscal policy in the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs at the European Commission

Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Santiago Pérez-Nievas is Professor in the Political Science and International Relations Department at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM).

Attorney at law specialising in corporate law

Pierre-Louis Périn is an attorney at law specialising in corporate law. After ten years in the legal departments of financial and industrial groups (Peugeot Citroen, Thomson, Axa), Pierre-Louis became an avocat and is a member of the Paris bar. He has been a partner at the firms Deloitte (2000-2001), SJBerwin – KWM (20001-2017) and Reed Smith (2017-2019).

Member of the High Level Expert Group on Climate Finance and Special Envoy to the Prime Minister of Barbados on Climate Finance

Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law Heidelberg (Germany)

OECD

Mr Mario Pezzini is Director of the OECD Development Centre. Moreover, after having served for a year as Acting Director of the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate, he has been nominated Special Advisor to the OECD Secretary General on Development. The OECD Development Centre is an institution where governments, enterprises and civil society organisations informally discuss questions of common interest. Its Governing Board includes most of the OECD countries but also developing and emerging economies as full members. The Centre helps policy makers in OECD and partner countries find innovative solutions to the global challenges of development. (www.oecd.org/dev) Before joining the Development Centre in 2010, Mario Pezzini held several senior management positions in the OECD, where he has been working since 1995. Prior to joining the OECD, Mr. Pezzini was Professor in Industrial Economics at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris as well as in US and Italian Universities. Also, Mr. Pezzini served as an Advisor in the field of economic development, industrial organisation and regional economics in international organisations and think tanks (e.g. ILO, UNIDO, European Commission and Nomisma in Italy). Mr. Pezzini started his career in the Government office of the Emilia-Romagna Region.

Professor at the Paris School of Economics (PSE)

Thomas Piketty is a study director at l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and professor at the Paris School of Economics (PSE). He is also co-director of the World Inequality Lab and the World Inequality Database. His second book, "Une brève histoire de l'égalité" (Il est également co-directeur du World Inequality Lab et de la World Inequality Database. Son dernier ouvrage, Une Brève histoire de l'égalité (A Brief Story of Equality), was published by the editions du Seuil in September 2021.

Professor of law at Sciences Po Law School
Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Law Journal

Professor of political science at Université de Nice

Christine Pina is a professor of political science at Université de Nice within the ERMES team (Research Team on the Mutations of Europe and its Societies). Her research interests include political parties and electoral sociology and the relationship between religion and politics.

Founder at PIT Policy Lab

Founder at PIT Policy Lab and Senior Research Scientist at the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at West Virginia University

Assistant Professor at Faculdade de Ciências de Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Ana Isabel dos Santos Figueiredo Pinto is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Nova University of Lisbon (Nova FCSH), Researcher and Member of the Executive Board of the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI-Nova) and Associate Researcher at the National Defense Institute (IDN).

Head of Programme on European Union and Institutional Relations Manager at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI)

Senior Economic Adviser to the French Minister of Finance

Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School

Professor of public law at the University of Bordeaux

Sébastien Platon is a professor of public law at the University of Bordeaux where he is responsible for the Master of European Law.

Associate Professor at the University of Vienna

Carolina Plescia is Associate Professor of Political Science in the Department of Government at the University of Vienna.

General Director of the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI)

Director for Senegal, The Gambia, Cabo Verde and Guinea-Bissau at Agence française de développement (AFD)

Professor at the University of Luxembourg, Chair of Legislative Studies
Member of the Scientific Council, BLUE

Philippe Poirier is a professor at the University of Luxembourg, holding the research chair in Legislative Studies of the Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies. He also leads the program of the same university dedicated to European governance.

Director General of the think tank Europe – Jacques Delors in Brussels

Geneviève Pons is an honorary Director of the European Commission (EC). She was in charge of environment and climate matters in Jacques Delors’ Cabinet during his last two mandates as President of the EC (1991-1995). She then held several management positions in the EC. She was appointed Director of the Legal Service of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in 2013 and Director of the European Office of WWF in June 2015. From 2020, she is Director General of the think tank Europe – Jacques Delors in Brussels.

Deputy Director General for Regional and Urban Policy

President of the Peterson Institute for International Economics

Adam S. Posen has been president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics since January 2013. Over his career, he has contributed to research and public policy regarding monetary and fiscal policies in the G-20, the challenges of European integration since the adoption of the euro, China-US economic relations, and developing new approaches to financial recovery and stability. He was one of the first economists to seriously address the political foundations of central bank independence and to analyze Japan's Great Recession as a failure of macroeconomic policy.  While at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York during 1994–97, he coauthored Inflation Targeting: Lessons from the International Experience with Ben Bernanke, Thomas Laubach, and Frederic Mishkin.

Professor in the Yong Pung How School of Law at Singapore Management University

Full Professor of International Law, Director of the Center for International and Strategic Studies, Luiss Guido Carli (Rome)

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Secretary-general of Europa Nostra

Editor, BLUE

Victor Queudet is a graduate of the University of Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and of the Università Sapienza (Rome) in Modern History. He is a member of BLUE's editorial team.

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Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator for the Financial Times

Visiting researcher in political science at CEVIPOF (Sciences Po Paris)

Christiane Rafidinarivo is a visiting researcher in political science at CEVIPOF (Sciences Po Paris), an associate professor at the Institute of Political Studies in Madagascar. She teaches and researches at Université de La Réunion. She is president of the Indian Ocean Association of Political Science. Her research focuses on conflicts and cooperation on the one hand, and on political life on the other, in a comparative perspective.

Managing Director for Europe at Eurasia Group

Mujtaba (Mij) Rahman leads and oversees Eurasia Group's analysis and advisory work on Europe. This activity includes the EU's management of the coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout, UK-EU relations, EU climate politics, Eurozone fiscal policy and politics, Franco-German relations and policy, as well as institutional politics in Brussels.

Director of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute at ICDS

Dr Kristi Raik is the Director of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute at ICDS since February 2018. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Turku.

Professor of Political Science at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

José Rama is Professor of Political Science at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where he is part of the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the Faculty of Law.

Professor at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University
Member of the Scientific Council, BLUE

Ainė Ramonaitė is a Professor at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University. She is the head of the Department of Political Behaviour and Institutions and the leader of the (Post)Soviet Memory Studies Center.

Senior Research Fellow, Fridtjof Nansen Institute & Austrian Marshall Plan Fellow, Wilson Center

Andreas Raspotnik is a Senior Research Fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Oslo, Norway and an Austrian Marshall Plan Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC. His research predominantly focuses on the European Union's Arctic policy, the region's blue economy, in particular fisheries and aquaculture, as well as EU foreign and security policy at large.

Professor at Tampere University

Tapio Raunio is professor of political science at Tampere University.

Professor, University Paris Panthéon Assas, Director of the Institut de criminologie et de droit pénal de Paris

Professor, University Paris Panthéon Assas, Director of the Institut de criminologie et de droit pénal de Paris

Deputy Director General and Chief Trade Enforcement Officer in the Directorate General for Trade in the European Commission

Denis Redonnet Deputy Director General and Chief Trade Enforcement Officer in the Directorate General for Trade in the European Commission. Between 2015 and 2020 he acted as Director for "WTO, Legal Affairs and Trade in Goods" in the Directorate General for Trade in the European Commission. 

Geographer

Magali Reghezza is a geographer, lecturer at the École normale supérieure (PSL), and member of the High Council for the Climate. Her research focuses on natural hazards and issues of urban vulnerability and resilience. More broadly, she studies environmental issues (nature/society relationship, sustainable development and planning) in the city. She also works on the process of metropolisation and its social, spatial and environmental consequences in a context of globalisation.

Fellow by Examination in Law, Magdalen College, University of Oxford.

Dr Signe Rehling Larsen joined Magdalen College as a Fellow by Examination in Law in 2020. Before that she was a Max Weber Fellow in Law at the European University Institute. She was educated in law, politics and philosophy at the LSE, the New School for Social Research, Bard College Berlin and the University of Copenhagen.

Professor of Economics at the London Business School

Lucrezia Reichlin is Professor of Economics at the London Business School, non-executive director of AGEAS Insurance Group as well as Chairman & co-founder of Now-Casting Economics Ltd and a Trustee of IFRS. She is a columnist for the Italian national daily Il Corriere della Sera and a regular contributor of Project Syndicate.  

Associate at Hogan Lovell

Senior Research Fellow and Head of Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation & Digital Economy (GRID) at CEPS

Senior Research Fellow and Head of Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation & Digital Economy at CEPS

Andrea Renda is a Senior Research Fellow and Head of Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and the Digital Economy (GRID) at CEPS. He is currently a non-resident Senior Fellow at Duke University’s Kenan Institute for Ethics, and was Adjunct Professor of Law and Economics at Duke Law School (United States) for Academic Year 2016/2017. Over the past two decades, Andrea Renda has provided academic advice to several institutions, including the European Commission, the European Parliament, the OECD, the World Bank and several national governments around the world.

PhD student at the University of Northampton

Elodie René is a PhD student at the University of Northampton in the UK.

Professor of political science at Université des Antilles

Fred Reno is Professor of Political Science at the University of the West Indies. He directs the Center for Geopolitical and International Analysis (CAGI). His research focuses on Caribbean and West Indian politics, creolization, the status of French overseas territories and social mobilizations.

Lord Bagri Professor of Economics at the London Business School

Hélène Rey is the Lord Bagri Professor of Economics at London Business School. Her research focuses on the determinants and consequences of external trade and financial imbalances, the theory and empirics of financial crises and the organization of the international monetary system. She was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the 2006 Bernácer Prize and the 2012 inaugural Birgit Grodal Award of the European Economic Association. In 2013 she received the Yrjö Jahnsson Award shared with Thomas Piketty, in 2014, the Inaugural Carl Menger Preis, the 2015 Prix Edouard Bonnefous, the 2017 Maurice Allais Prize and the 2020 Prix Turgot.

European Commissioner for Justice

Didier Reynders is the former Minister of Finance of Belgium and is European Commissioner for Justice since Dec.

Research Associate at the University of Liverpool

Clare Rice is a Research Associate at the University of Liverpool.

Associate professor of political science at University Carlos III of Madrid

Pedro Riera is an associate professor of political science at the Department of Social Sciences at Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M).

Professor of Law and Finance

Professor of Law and Finance and Director of the Institute of Law & Economics, University of Hamburg; Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, Faculty of Law.

Former French Ambassador (Moscow, Beijing, the United Nations Security Council)

Jean-Maurice Ripert, born 22 June 1953, is a French diplomat. He has served as cabinet advisor to several socialist ministers, including Prime Ministers Michel Rocard and Lionel Jospin. He has served as Ambassador to Greece, Russia and China, and as Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations in Geneva and New York.

International Lawyer and Lecturer at Sciences Po

Charlemagne Columnist and Brussels Bureau Chief at The Economist

Professor of Private Law at the Sorbonne Law School

Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Burgos

Juan Antonio Rodríguez-Zepeda is Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Burgos.

Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government

Predoctoral Fellow at the University of Murcia

José Miguel Rojo is a Predoctoral Fellow at the University of Murcia.

Deputy head of research and director covering global macro politics and the Middle East at Eurasia Group

Henry Rome is the deputy head of research and a director covering global macro politics and the Middle East for Eurasia Group. He develops and directs Eurasia Group's global research agenda and leads platform-wide research initiatives. He has expertise in Middle East geopolitics, international security, and economic sanctions, with a focus on Iran and Israel.

Professor of Communication at the Hertie School of Governance

Andrea Römmele is Professor of Communication in Politics and Civil Society at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. Her research focuses on political communication, parties and public affairs from a comparative perspective. She is the founder and editor of the Journal for Political Consulting and Policy Advice, and is also active in the field of political and business consulting.

Head of Unit on Strategic Partnerships with Africa and in the European Commission's Directorate General for International Partnerships (INTPA)

Domenico is Head of Unit INTPA/A/1 on Strategic Partnerships with Africa and OACPS in the European Commission's Directorate General for International Partnerships (INTPA).

Editor, BLUE
Editor, BLUE

Théophile Rospars, LL.M., is a member of BLUE's editorial team.

Professeur Ford International de sciences politiques au MIT

Barry Ross Posen is Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT, Director Emeritus of the MIT Security Studies Program, and serves on the Executive Committee of Seminar XXI (http://semxxi.mit.edu/). He is the author of, Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy, (Cornell University Press 2014), Inadvertent Escalation: Conventional War and Nuclear Risks (Cornell University Press 1991), and The Sources of Military Doctrine (Cornell University Press 1984 ). The latter won two awards: The American Political Science Association's Woodrow Wilson Foundation Book Award, and Ohio State University's Edward J. Furniss Jr. Book Award. He is also the author of numerous articles, including "Europe Can Defend Itself," Survival, December 2020, "The Rise of Illiberal Hegemony--Trump's Surprising Grand Strategy," Foreign Affairs, March/April 2018, "It's Time to Make Afghanistan Someone Else's Problem," The Atlantic, 2017, "Contain ISIS," The Atlantic, 2015, “Pull Back: The Case for a Less Activist Foreign Policy,” Foreign Affairs, January/February 2013, and "Command of the Commons: The Military Foundation of U.S. Hegemony," International Security, (Summer, 2003.) He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2016 he was appointed Henry A. Kissinger Chair (visiting) in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress, John W. Kluge Center. He is the 2017 recipient of the International Security Studies Section (ISSS), International Studies Association, Distinguished Scholar Award, and in 2019 received the Notre Dame International Security Center's Lifetime Achievement Award.

Research Fellow at the School of Regulation of EUI

Nicolò is research fellow at the School of Regulation of EUI. He has extensive work experience on electricity-related topics like the development of a seamless market for power in Europe and the emergence of new business models in a digitalised and decarbonised electricity system.

Editor in chief – Revue européenne du droit

Vasile has been the editor-in-chief of the Revue Européenne du Droit since its inception in June 2020

Senior Lecturer AgroParisTech

Samuel Roturier is a lecturer in the Ecological Trajectories and Society team at AgroParisTech.

French jurist and professor of constitutional law

Senior Research Fellow at the Jacques Delors Institute in Paris

Eulalia Rubio is senior Research Fellow on European economic affairs. Her main fields of expertise are the EU budget,  EU´s budgetary policy-making and European public investment policies and strategies

Assistant Professor at the University of Lisbon

A political scientist, Teresa Ruel is an Assistant Professor at the University of Lisbon (ISCSP-ULisbon).

Professor in Human Rights and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government

Professor at Complutense University in Madrid

Leticia Ruiz Rodríguez is Professor of Political Science at the Complutense University of Madrid.

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Président, Columbia University et President, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network

Director, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, Columbia University

Political Scientist

Guillaume Sacriste is a lecturer in political sciences at the Paris 1 University Panthéon-Sorbonne and head of the European public affairs master's program.

Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School

Physicist

Tim Sahay is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center and the senior policy manager at the Green New Deal Network, a coalition of labor, climate, and environmental justice organizations growing a movement to pass national and international green policies. He has worked over the past decade across physics, cleantech, climate adaptation, and consulting. While doing a PhD in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he organized the campus fossil divestment movement. As the Blue-Green Cities fellow at the Charles River Watershed Association, he organized housing advocates to lobby for climate resiliency in Boston. He has also worked as a consultant on projects ranging from pollution in India to energy transition in China. He has likewise advised congressional offices designing investment, trade, procurement, and industrial policies that simultaneously create good jobs, cut climate pollution, and curb racial and economic inequality. His research interests are industrial policy and energy politics. Originally from Mumbai, he is based in New York City.

Development economist

Financial Times's European Economics Commentator and author of Free Lunch

Researcher at the Juan March Institute, Carlos III University, Madrid

Andrés Santana holds degrees in economics, linguistics and Romance philology, as well as a master's degree in social sciences and a doctorate in political science. He is a researcher at the Juan March Institute, Carlos III University, Madrid.

Senior Fellow at Bruegel

André Sapir is Senior Fellow at Bruegel, University Professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Between 1990 and 2004, he worked for the European Commission, first as Economic Advisor to the Director-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, and then as Principal Economic Advisor to President Prodi, also heading his Economic Advisory Group. After the Commission, he served as External Member of President Barroso’s Economic Advisory Group and then as Member of the General Board of the European Systemic Risk Board based at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt.

Deputy Department Director at OFCE, Sciences Po

Head of Middle East and North Africa Project at PISM – The Polish Institute of International Affairs

Patrycja Sasnal is Head of Middle East and North Africa Project at PISM – The Polish Institute of International Affairs.

Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University

Director Northeastern Civic A.I. Lab

Director Northeastern Civic A.I. Lab and Assistant Professor at Northeastern University

Senior Researcher at the Department of Comparative Political Science at the University of Bergen
Member of the Scientific Council, BLUE

Arjan Schakel is a Senior Researcher at the Department of Comparative Political Science at the University of Bergen.

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

Kim Lane Scheppele is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. She is also a faculty fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Her primary field is the sociology of law and she specializes in ethnographic and archival research on courts and public institutions. She also works in sociological theory, comparative/historical sociology, political sociology, sociology of knowledge and human rights.  

Professor of European Politics and a member of the Center for Comparative and International Studies at ETH Zurich

Member of the editorial team, BLUE
Member of the editorial team, BLUE

Professor of Economics at Sciences Po Paris and the University of Bonn

Moritz Schularick is Professor of Economics at Sciences Po Paris and the University of Bonn, Director of the MacroFinance Lab, and a Principal Investigator in the DFG-Excellence Cluster ECONtribute.

Chairman of the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation

Martin Schulz is President of the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation and a member of the SPD (S&D).

Executive Director, Open Society Foundation

Director General of the European Defence Agency (EDA)

Jiří Šedivý has been the director general of the European Defense Agency (EDA) since May 2020.  Mr. Šedivý served as Minister of Defense of the Czech Republic (2006-2007), Deputy Minister of Defense (2010-2012), NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defense Policy and Planning (2007-2010), and Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to NATO (2012-2019). He also served as Deputy Minister for European Affairs of the Czech Republic (2007) and Special Representative for Resilience and New Threats at the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2019-2020).

French Ambassador

Head of the European Commission Representation in Vienna and former Secretary-General of the European Commission

Executive Director of the Electricity Programme at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies

Anupama Sen joined the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies in November 2009. She is Executive Director of the Electricity Programme and Senior Research Fellow. Her research interests lie in the applied economics of energy in developing countries and her research has spanned the oil, gas and electricity sectors.

Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University

Roman Senninger is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University.

Professor of Law and Finance, The University of Arizona

Lawyer, member of the Paris and New York Bars and former member of the Paris Bar Council (2010-2013)

Pierre Servan-Schreiber, born May 14, 1955 in Paris, is a French lawyer, member of the Paris and New York Bars and former member of the Paris Bar Council (2010-2013). He is also a mediator and arbitrator. After co-founding the law firm Gaston-Dreyfus, Lévêque, Le Douarin, Servan-Schreiber and Veil in 1984, he became in 1992 European Counsel of the prestigious American law firm Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, of which he became the first European partner in the history of this firm in 1998. In 2000, Pierre Servan-Schreiber joined another equally prestigious American law firm, Skadden Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP, of which he became the Managing Partner of the Paris office He has long been one of Europe's leading specialists in M&A, public offerings and capital markets transactions in an international context and has advised on major cross-border strategic transactions for some of the largest French and foreign groups in France and around the world as well as on significant international litigation matters. He left Skadden Arps on January 31, 2015 to focus on mediation, primarily with families owning industrial assets or corporate groups, and arbitration. He is an accredited mediator with CMAP (Paris Mediation and Arbitration Center), CPR/CEDR (New York) and CiArb (London).He heads the Mediation Commission of the Club des Juristes and is a lecturer at SciencesPo on Mediation. He holds an LL.M. from Columbia Law School in New York and a Master's degree from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He has also completed training in systemic family therapy (APRTF, Paris) and in the theory and practice of mediation with Ken Cloke (Santa Monica, California).

Director of the Institute of International Relations and Political Science at Vilnius University.

Assoc. prof. Dr Margarita Šešelgytė is the Director of the Institute of International Relations and Political Science at Vilnius University. Before that, Dr Margarita Šešelgytė worked as Deputy Director of Studies at Vilnius University IIRPS, Baltic Defense College (Tartu, Estonia), Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania and European Committee under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania.

Director of the Natural Resources and Sustainable Development dual degree program at the School of International Service at the American University in Washington, DC

Judith Shapiro is the director of the Natural Resources and Sustainable Development dual degree at the School of International Service at American University in Washington, DC. She is also a researcher and teacher. Her work focuses on global, Asian, and Chinese environmental politics, particularly under Mao.

Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists

Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists and Policy Analyst at the Day One Project

Director of Economics, UNFCCC Climate Champions ; Policy Associate, Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, University College London

Professor of European Law at the University of Louvain

Professor of Strategy at HEC Paris

General Director of the Clingendael Institute and is vice chair of the European Integration Committee of the Netherlands Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV)

Andrea Mitchell University Professor in Law, Political Science and Business Ethics

Research professor at the Institute for European Studies and director of the Brussels office of the Elcano Royal Institute

Luis Simón is research professor at the Institute for European Studies and director of the Brussels office of the Elcano Royal Institute. His current research interests include the evolution of U.S. geostrategy and its impact upon the transatlantic relationship; European geopolitics and security; the future of NATO; and changing geostrategic dynamics in Asia and their implications for Europe.

Researcher at University of Tampere

Josefina Sipinen is a PhD candidate at University of Tampere, Finland.

Manages Science Education Policy and the European Union Contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS)

Strategic Director at the Polish Economic Institute

Strategic Director at the Polish Economic Institute

Philosophe

Peter Sloterdijk, born 26 June 1947) is a German philosopher and cultural theorist. He is a professor of philosophy and media theory at the University of Art and Design Karlsruhe. He co-hosted the German television show Im Glashaus: Das Philosophische Quartett from 2002 until 2012.

Landscape architect

Bas Smets is a landscape architect, founder of the Bureau Bas Smets and professor of architecture at Harvard University.

Researcher and Project Coordinator at the University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway

Malgorzata (Gosia) Smieszek, PhD, is a political scientist and a Researcher and Project coordinator at the University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway. She is an Adjunct Fellow at the East-West Center and a Co-Founder of a non-profit “Women of the Arctic.

President of Microsoft

Brad Smith is president of Microsoft since 2015.

Researcher at the University of Florence
Member of the Scientific Council, BLUE

Sorina Cristina Soare is a research fellow at Università degli Studi di Firenze.

Predoctoral researcher at the Autonomous University of Barcelona

Llorenç Soler-Buades is a predoctoral researcher at the Institute of Government and Public Policies (Autonomous University of Barcelona).

Professor at the Sorbonne Law School (University of Paris 1)

Professor in Philosophy at Sorbonne University in Paris

Senior Researcher at the Global China Initiative of the Global Development Policy Center at Boston University

Cecilia Springer is a Senior Research Fellow with the Global China Initiative at the Global Development Policy Center at Boston University.

Deputy Director of the Centre for European Reform

John Springford is deputy director of the Centre for European Reform in London. He acted as secretary to the CER’s commission on the economic consequences of leaving the EU, which published its final report in June 2014.

Professor of Comparative Politics and German Government at Technische Universität Darmstadt

Christian Stecker holds the chair of "Comparative Politics and German Government" at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. His research focuses on federalism, coalition dynamics, the German party system and populism.

Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and trans-Atlantic Relations in the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings

Constanze Stelzenmüller is an expert on German, European, and trans-Atlantic foreign and security policy and strategy. She is the holder of the Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and trans-Atlantic Relations in the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Professor at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

Secrétaire Perpétuel of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques

Senior Lecturer at Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz

Harald Stöger is a lecturer and senior lecturer in political science at the Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz. His research focuses on the issue of housing in Austria and from a comparative perspective.

Machine Learning engineer

Researcher at the University of Sussex

Dragomir Stoyanov is a researcher in Political Science at the University of Sussex. His research focuses on electoral dynamics, Europeanization and democratization in Eastern Europe, with a particular interest in Bulgarian politics.

Visiting Faculty at Stockholm School of Economics

Andris Strazds is Visiting Faculty at Stockholm School of Economics. Since February 2014 Andris has been Adviser to the International Relations and Communication Department of the Bank of Latvia. In April 2016 H.E. Raimonds Vejonis appointed him a member of the Energy Security Commission of the President of Latvia. Andris is also a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations.

Sociologist and former director of the Max Planck Institute in Cologne

Professor of Political Science at the University of Aarhus
Member of the Scientific Council, BLUE

Rune Stubager is Professor of Political Science at the University of Aarhus.

Former Prime Minister of Finland

Researcher at Universität Greifswald

Sophie Suda is a researcher at the University of Greifswald.

Professor at KU Leuven, director of the Institute for Social and Political Opinion Research (ISPO)
Member of the Scientific Council, BLUE

Political sociologist and professor of social science methodology at the University of Leuven, director of the Institute for Social and Political Opinion Research (ISPO).

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Grand Continent EU Correspondant

Based in Brussels, María Tadeo is Europe correspondent for Grand Continent.

Senior Fellow at Bruegel on climate and energy policy and on the political economy of global decarbonisation

Associate professor in Political Science at Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University

Anne-France Taiclet is an associate professor in Political Science at Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University, in the European Sociology and Political Science Center

Reporter covering the EU economy at POLITICO

Paola Tamma is a reporter covering the EU economy at POLITICO where she joined in 2018, writing on climate and energy.

Former Gaia-X President

Former French Minister of Justice

Associate Professor of economics at Bard College

Director General, European Parliament Research Service (EPRS)

Assistant to the Nuclear Counselor of the French Embassy in China

Mathilde Teissonnière currently serves as assistant to the Nuclear Counselor at the French Embassy in China. She was previously in charge of the Asia-Pacific mission with the French Army in 2019.

Lecturer at the Institute for Law and Finance at Goethe University

Lecturer at the Institute for Law and Finance of the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main; and Director-General, Governance and Operations of the Single Supervisory Mechanism, European Central Bank (ECB).

Co-Chair of the International Resource Panel

Izabella Teixeira is Co-Chair of the International Resource Panel. She is an expert in environmental management, impact assessment and licensing. She is the former Environment Minister of Brazil and was named a Champion of the Earth in 2013.

Head of European affairs at CFDT

Directeur adjoint de la Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS)

Bruno Tertrais is Deputy Director of the Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS), the leading French think-tank on international issues, and Geopolitical Advisor at the Institut Montaigne. His areas of expertise are geopolitics and international relations, defence and nuclear issues, US policy and transatlantic relations, security in the Middle East and Asia. He has been a Senior Research Fellow at the FRS (2001-2016), Chargé de mission to the Director of Strategic Affairs at the Ministry of Defence (1993-2001), and Director of the Civil Affairs Committee at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (1990-1993). In 1995-1996, he was a visiting scholar at the RAND Corporation. In 2007-2008 and 2012-2013, he was a member of the White Paper Commissions on Defence and National Security. In 2020-2021, he was Scientific Advisor to the High Commissioner for Planning. Bruno Tertrais is a member of the Group of Eminent Persons of the Preparatory Commission of the CTBTO; the Group of Eminent Persons for the Substantive Advancement of Nuclear Disarmament; the Advisory Board of the Global US Special Operations Forces Foundation; the Executive Committee of the Maritime Strategy Center of the University of Haifa; the Editorial Board of The Washington Quarterly; the Editorial Board of the Journal of Security and Strategic Analyses; the Board of the Fondation Jean Monnet pour l'Europe; and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. In 2016, he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour by the President of the Republic. He writes a monthly geopolitical column in the weekly magazine Le Point.

Director of research (senior researcher) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Anne-Marie Thiesse is a senior researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris) and teaches at the Natolin campus of the College of Europe. A former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, she obtained her PhD in 1981 at the University of Paris 3 Sorbonne and her PhD (Habilitation) at the University of Lyon-II in 1990. She was awarded the silver medal of the CNRS in 2020.

Economist

Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Cambridge. Her current research concentrates on the political economy of energy and the long history of the democratic, economic, and geopolitical disruptions of the twenty-first century. She is a regular panellist on Talking Politics and a columnist for the New Statesman.

Honorary President of the Toulouse School of Economics

Senior research fellow at the Central European University
Member of the Scientific Council, BLUE

 Gábor Tóka is a senior research fellow at the Central European University with a Ph.D. in Sociology of the ELTE University of Budapest. His research interest is primarily in election studies, and above all the interaction between voting behavior and the performance of democratic institutions.

Professor Emeritus in Economics

Joëlle Toledano is Professor Emeritus in Economics, member of the National Digital Council and author of GAFA : reprenons le pouvoir

Professor Emeritus, associated with the Chair of Governance and Regulation, member of the National Digital Council (CNNUM)

Joëlle Toledano is a professor emeritus, formerly a university professor in Economics; she is associated with the Chair "Governance and Regulation" at the University of Paris Dauphine-PSL, a member of the Board of Directors of the Agence Nationale des Fréquences and of two digital startups, and a member of the Conseil National du Numérique (CNNUM) and of the Académie des Technologies.

Shelby Cullom Davis chair of History at Columbia University and Director of the European Institute

Senior economist at the Centre for European Reform

lawyer

Marta Torre-Schaub is a research director at the CNRS, specialising in environmental law and climate change. She teaches environmental law at the University of Paris 1 and at Sciences Po Paris. She is attached to the ISJPS (Institut des Sciences Juridiques et Philosophiques de la Sorbonne) of the University Paris 1-Sorbonne. She leads the interdisciplinary network CLIMALEX on law and climate change and the environmental axis of the ISJPS. She is an expert with the National Agency for Food Safety, Environment and Work on Plant Protection Products and Risks (ANSES). She also leads the Environmental Law and Environmental Justice working group within the framework of the "Legal Strategies" programme of the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs. She is the founder of the research network "Law and Climate Change" which she has been directing since 2016. She was awarded a Fulbright Foundation for New York University (NYU) fellowship in 2004 and was a visiting scholar in the Global Research Program at NYU in 2005.

Partner at ArbLit

Former French Minister of Justice and Defender of Rights, President of