European Peace and Security Studies: Academic Advisory Council
Members of the Advisory Council provide overall guidance and input to the scope and content of the European Peace and Security Studies Programme. As a deliberate mixture of distinguished academics and senior policy-makers, members of the Academic Advisory council also promote the policy-relevance of the programme and ensure the constant dialogue between academia and high-level policy-making in Europe’s capital and beyond. Most members of the AAC also share their insights with EPSS students in their capacity as guest lecturers.
International Senior Scholars and Academic Experts
Prof. Dr. Rafael Biermann
Professor of International Relations and International Organizations, University of Jena, Germany and Former Deputy Dean, German Marshall Centre
Prof. Dr. Sven Biscop
Director, Security & Global Governance Programme, Egmont—Royal Institute for International Relations, Brussels
Prof. Dr. Thomas Diez
Professor of International Relations, University of Tübingen, Germany
Richard Gowan
Associate Director for Policy, Center on International Cooperation, New York University, US & Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations
Professor Christopher Hill, M.A. DPhil (Oxon)
Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations, University of Cambridge, UK
Professor Jolyon Howorth
Department of Political Science, Yale University (US) and Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics, University of Bath (UK)
Professor Knud Erik Jørgensen
Professor of International Relations, University of Århus, Denmark
Dr. Victor Mauer
Deputy Director and Head of Research of the Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Professor Kalypso Nicolaïdis
Director of the European Studies Centre and University Lecturer in International Relations, University of Oxford, UK
Dr. Alexandra Novosseloff
Research Associate at the Centre Thucydide, University of Paris-Panthéon-Assas (Expert on UN's relations with regional organizations)
Dr Hanna Ojanen
Research Director, Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm, Sweden
LtCol Vinciane Sablon
Chair of World Politics, Conflict Studies Department, Belgian Royal Military Academy, Brussels
Dr Karen E. Smith
Director of the European Foreign Policy Unit and Reader in International Relations, London School of Economics, UK
Professor Michael H. Smith
Professor of European Politics, Loughborough University, UK
Dr. Thierry Tardy
Faculty Member of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Former Course Director of the European Training Course in Security Policy (ETC), Geneva, Switzerland (expert on EU-UN relations)
Professor Mario Telo
Professor of Political Science, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels
Dr. Georgios Terzis
Associate Professor of Communications, Vesalius College vzw, Brussels & Senior Associate Member, St Anthony's College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Professor Ole Wæver
Professor of International Relations and Director of the Centre for Advanced Security Theory (CAST), University of Copenhagen
Professor Richard Whitman
Professor of Politics, University of Bath & Chair of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES)
Professor Jan Zielonka
Professor of European Politics, St Antony's College, University of Oxford
Senior European Policy-Makers
James Appathurai
NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia and former NATO Spokesperson
Dr. Jamie Shea
Deputy Assistant Secretary General, Emerging Security Challenges, NATO
Admiral Rainer Brinkmann
Former Commander of the maritime Joint Task Force 150 at the Gulf of Aden and Former Director of NATO’s Centre of Excellence for Operations in Confined and Shallow Waters (COE CSW)
Dr. Steven Everts
Former Personal Advisor to the EU High Representative (Javier Solana), former EU Personal Representative for Energy and Foreign Policy and current Member of the Cabinet of Catherine Ashton (Vice President of the EU Commission & High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy)
Dr. Benedikt Franke
Special Advisor to Kofi Annan, The Kofi Annan Foundation, Geneva
Nick Grono
Deputy President, International Crisis Group, Brussels
Geoffrey Harris
Head of Human Rights Unit, European Parliament, Brussels
Dick Heimans
Head of Sector, Unit F1: Fight Against Terrorism, Directorate General Justice, Freedom and Security, European Commission, Brussels
Brig.-Gen. Gabor Horvath
Director for Concepts and Capabilities, European Union Military Staff, Brussels
Mika-Markus Leinonen
Permanent Chair of the EU's Committee for Civilian Aspects of Crisis Management (CIVCOM), European External Action Service, European Union
Carlos Jiménez Renjifo
Desk Officer for Spain and Andorra, United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe (UNRIC), Brussels
Andrea Ricci
Crisis Room Coordinator, DG External Relations, Unit 2: Crisis Response and Peacebuilding, European Commission, Brussels
Peter Scaruppe
Director Industry and Market, European Defence Agency (EDA), Brussels
Colonel Christof Tatschl
Chief of Staff and Military Counsellor at the Austrian Military Representation to the EU and NATO and Former Chief of Staff, Standby High Readiness Brigade for United Nations Operations (SHIRBRIG)
Janos Tisovsky
Deputy Director, United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe (UNRIC), Brussels