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Conrad King is Director of the EU Study Tour & Internship Program in Canada and conducts research on education policy in Europe, with a particular interest in recent reform attempts of secondary education in Germany and France. Conrad also has an interest in the Bologna Process (the creation of a European Higher Education Area) and its implications for universities and research agendas in Europe, as well as lesson-drawing between Canada and the European Union regarding governance of education and skills […]

Ania Zbyszewska is a Assistant Professor at the Carleton University. She obtained her doctorate in Law and Society from University of Victoria, Faculty of Law (Canada) in November 2012. She researches the intersection of law and politics, particularly in relation to the laws regulating labour market and employment in the context of the European Union (EU) and its post-socialist members. Drawing on feminist theories of law and political economy. Research Interests: EU Labour and Employment Policy and Regulation, Law and […]

Dr. Geist has written numerous academic articles and government reports on the Internet and law and was a member of Canada’s National Task Force on Spam. He is an internationally syndicated columnist on technology law issues with his regular column appearing in the Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, and the BBC. Dr. Geist is the editor of “Radical Extremism” to “Balanced Copyright”: Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda (2010) and the “Future of Canadian Copyright Law” (2005).   Research Interests: Migration, […]

Lyubov Zhyznomirska an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at St. Mary’s University. She completed her PhD at the University of Alberta in 2012. In 2012-13, she was a Jean Monnet Fellow at Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, in Florence, Italy. Dr. Zhyznomirska joined Saint Mary’s University in 2013. Lyubov Zhyznomirska is interested in the European Union’s foreign relations in general and migration relations in particular with its eastern neighbours – specifically, with Russia […]

Ruben Zaiotti is the director of the Jean Monnet European Union Centre of Excellence, a Jean Monnet Chair in Public Diplomacy and Associate professor in the Political Science department at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia). His main areas of interest are European Union politics, border control and immigration policy, social media and public diplomacy and transatlantic relations. Ruben Zaiotti is the author of the monograph “Cultures of Border Control: Schengen and the Evolution of European Frontiers” with University of Chicago Press and […]

Dennis Pilon’s work touches on many aspects of comparative elections and democratization, including questions of institutional reform, voter turnout, citizen engagement, deliberation and media, and the role of economic inequality in these processes. Research Interests: Canadian politics, BC politics, Comparative democratization and electoral reform, Media and citizen engagement, Class analysis, Working class politics, Sexuality politics, and Democratization and democratic reform in western countries

Edelgard Mahant has studied the European Union for the past forty years. She has a special interest in French politics, the history of the European Union and the human rights work of the Council of Europe. She has a long standing interest in the European Union’s special relationship with Africa. Research Interests: European Union, Foreign policy analysis, History of European integration, The EU in Africa, Politics of international trade, Foreign policy of the states of southern Africa, The human rights […]

Anna Gora is a postdoctoral researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology where she works on the EU2020 project, Reconciling Europe with its Citizens through Democracy and the Rule of Law (RECONNECT). Her PhD research at Carleton University examined the politicization of the EU in Ireland comparatively between citizens and the mass media. She previously worked as a research assistant at Carleton University on projects relating to multilevel legitimacy in the EU, the politicization of the Euro crisis […]

Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly is Professor at the School of Public Administration and Director of the Jean Monnet Centre at the University of Victoria. Dr, Brunnet-Jailly holds the Jean Monnet Chair in Innovative Governance. He is also the the Lead of the Jean Monnet Network Border/Migration and the Lead of the  SSHRC Borders in Globalization Partnership project (BIG). Currently, his research focuses on comparative and interdisciplinary theorization of cross-border urban regions & implications for European integration. Media Experience: Dr. Brunet-Jailly has an extensive outreach […]

Kurt Huebner is the Interim Director of the Institute for European Studies, at the University of British Columbia. He holds the Jean Monnet Chair for European Integration and Global Political Economy. His research includes global and European currency regimes, international regimes of foreign direct investment, and the relations between innovation and sustainability. His latest research focuses on the economic and socio-political foundations of technical innovations in a transatlantic perspective, and the ongoing processes of currency competition and currency cooperation (Euro-Dollar-Renminbi). […]

Dr. Costanza Musu is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa and Editor-in-Chief of the journal International Politics (Palgrave). She obtained her PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Subsequently she was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence and Assistant Professor of International Relations at Richmond University (London-UK). She has been a consultant for the Military Center for Strategic […]

Frédéric Merand is director of CÉRIUM, the Montréal Centre for International Studies, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Montréal. He received his Ph.D. in 2003 from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a policy advisor in the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and a Research Fellow at the San Diego-based Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Mérand has published on the European Security and Defence Policy, EU-NATO relations, transatlantic relations, Canadian foreign policy, […]

Amy Verdun is Professor of Political Science and Jean Monnet Chair ad Personam at the University of Victoria, in Victoria BC, Canada where she has been since 1997. Her recent research focuses on an evaluation of ten years economic and monetary integration in Europe, including research on the EU Stability and Growth Pact, innovative governance in the European Union, delegation and power in EU institutions, European Neighbourhood policies and the relations between the EU and its Eastern Neighbours, lessons from […]

Jeffrey Kopstein’s primary research interests are in the fields of international and European politics. He has written extensively on transatlantic relations and on ethnic conflict in democratizing and democratic societies. Research Interests: Transatlantic Relations, Comparative Politics, Political Economy.

Oliver Schmidtke is Director of the Centre for Global Studies (CFGS) and Jean Monnet Chair in European Politics and History at the University of Victoria. Dr. Schmidtke, a former director of European Studies and president of the European Community Studies Association in Canada (ECSA-C), holds appointments in the departments of Political Science and History. Currently his research focuses on issues of democracy, populism, memory politics, the labour market inclusion of highly skilled immigrants as well as processes of political advocacy […]

Elisabeth Vallet is an Associate Professor and a Research Director in geopolitics at the Raoul-Dandurand Chair at the University of Quebec at Montreal. Transatlantic relations and EU-US constitutional analysis are her major fields of interest. Elisabeth has a great deal of media experience. See Dr. Vallet’s media profile. Research Interests: Transatlantic relations and EU-US constitutional analysis