Our Experts
Mahmoud Refaat
President
Mahmoud Refaat is an Expert in International Law and Foreign-Policy Advisor. He is the President of The European Institute for International Law and International Relations and Writer (member of British Association of Journalists)..
James Bacchus
Member of Governing Board – United States
James Bacchus is a founding judge and was twice the Chairman – the chief judge – of the highest court of world trade, the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1991 to 1995). He is a Distinguished Fellow of the European Institute for International Law and International Relations.
Klaus Buchner
Distinguished Fellow – Germany
Klaus Buchner is is Distinguished Fellow of the European Institute for International Law and International Relations. He was a Member of the European Parliament (2014-2020). Klaus Buchner is a German politician and a university professor for green-conservative Ecological Democratic Party..
Jason Altmire
Distinguished Fellow – United States
The Honorable Jason Altmire is a distinguished fellow of the European Institute for International Law and International Relations. He served three terms in the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to 2013. During his time in Congress, he earned a reputation as one of the most moderate members of the House, which led to an impressive record of legislative success. He represented the United States on several congressional visits to the Middle East and Europe, meeting..
Csaba Sógor
Distinguished Fellow – Romania
Csaba Sógor is a distinguished fellow of the European Institute for International Law and International Relations. He was member of the European Parliament (2012-2019).
As a member of the European Parliament Intergroup for Traditional Minorities, National Communities and Languages, and as member of the ASEAN delegation, he devoted most of his energy to the promotion of the rights of minorities.As a member of the European Parliament Working Group on Intercultural Activities and Interreligious ..
LINNÉA ENGSTRÖM
Distinguished Fellow – Sweden
Linnea Engström was a member of European Parliament (2014-2019), She is Distinguished Fellow of the European Institute for International Law and International Relations.
She is a Public policy expert with a focus on social and environmental sustainability. Science-driven with an excellent network in Scandinavia as well as the EU. She has been involved in most of the initiatives and legislation in the Gender Equality and Human rights committee, Environment and Fisheries Committees in the European..
Jiri Tomas Payne
Distinguished Fellow – Czech Republic
Jiri Payne is a distinguished fellow of the European Institute for International Law and International Relations. He was member of the European Parliament 2017-2019).
Jiri (= George) T. Payne was born on July 7, 1956 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. His father, Harry Donald Payne, gave up his American citizenship in the fifties because of his marriage to a Czech woman. To keep both citizenships was not allowed by law (Treaty USA-CZ)..
Andreas Pribersky
Fellow – Austria
Andreas Pribersky is a fellow of the European Institute for International Law and International Relations.He is Senior fellow at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Vienna. Prior to
Angelika Mlinar
Distinguished Fellow – Austria, Slovenia
Angelika Rosa Mlinar is Distinguished Fellow of the European Institute for International Law and International Relations. She is an Austrian and Slovenian politician who served as Member of the European Parliament from 2014 until 2019 and Minister of Development, Republic of Slovenia 2019 – 2020..
Fellows
Tracy B.Strong
Fellow – United Kingdom
Tracy Strong is Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy within Politics & International Relations at the University of Southampton.Presently Professor of political
Richard D. Anderson Jr.
Fellow – United States
Richard D. Anderson, Jr., is Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he has taught since 1989. He obtained the Ph.D in Political
Elena Korosteleva
Fellow – United Kingdom
Elena Korosteleva is Professor of International Politics and Director of the Global Europe Centre, at the University of Kent. She is also Jean Monnet Chair of European Politics, which she was awarded
Alexander Etkind
Fellow – Italy
Alexander Etkind is the Chair of Russia-Europe relations at the European University Institute. He completed his B.A. and M.A. in 1978 in Psychology and English at Leningrad State University.
Patrick Paul Walsh
Fellow – Ireland
Patrick Paul Walsh is currently a Full Professor of International Development Studies and an elected member of the Governing Authority in University College Dublin. He is the Director of the UCD Centre
Gorm Harste
Fellow – Denmark
Gorm Harste is associate professor of political science at Aarhus University. He is expert in European state building and his books in includes Law and Intersystemic Communication:
Fernanda Neutel
Fellow – Portugal
Fernanda Neutel, Ph.D. in Political Science/European Studies and Master degree in International Relations from Leeds University, United Kingdom, is Associate Professor at Lusófona
Véronique Dimier
Fellow – Belgium
Véronique Dimier is a political scientist working on history. She has been formerly Deakin and Marie Curie fellow at St Antony’s college, Oxford University, Fulbright Fellow at NYU
Christian Karner
Fellow – Austria
Christian Karner is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Lincoln (UK). Prior to this, Christian was Associate Professor of Sociology at the
Lucas Knotter
Fellow – Netharlands
Lucas Knotter is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Groningen. In his scholarship, he marries expertise in questions of secession and state creation with International
Natasha Lindstaedt
Fellow – United Kingdom
Natasha Lindstaedt is a Professor of Government at the University of Essex. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Politics and International Relations from the University of California, Santa Barbara Her
Gina Yannitell Reinhardt
Fellow – United Kingdom
Gina Yannitell Reinhardt, PhD: Professor Reinhardt studies how citizens and policy makers make decisions under uncertainty, and how those decisions affect economic, social,
Jeffrey Edward Green
Fellow – United States
Jeffrey Edward Green is a political theorist at the University of Pennsylvania, he directs the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy. His books include: The Shadow of Unfairness:
David Richards
Fellow – United States
David Richards is an Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut, with appointments in both the Department of Political Science and the Human Rights Institute
Kevin R. Spiker
Fellow – United States
Kevin R. Spiker is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Internships at Ohio University where he routinely teaches courses on political theory, political parties and elections,
Joanna Gocłowska-Bolek
Fellow – Poland
Joanna Gocłowska-Bolek is an expert in Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) affairs as well as the EU-Latin America and the Caribbean relations. Since April 2020 she is Deputy Director of
Hongyi Lai
Fellow – United Kingdom
Hongyi LAI is Associate Professor of the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham (UoN), United Kingdom.Prior to the University of Nottingham
Marianna Charountaki
Fellow – United Kingdom
Marianna Charountaki is Senior Lecturer in International Politics at University of Lincoln (UK). She has a PhD in International Relations & Middle East Studies from University of Exeter (UK).
Judith Grant
Fellow – United States
Judith Grant is a professor and activist in the political science department at Ohio University. She is co-editor of the journal New Political Science. Her research interests are political theory,
David A. Welch
Fellow – Canada
David A. Welch is University Research Chair and Professor of Political Science at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo. His 2005 book Painful Choices
Tomasz Lukaszuk
Fellow – Poland
Tomasz Lukaszuk is a scholar in the Department of Regional and Global Studies, the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies of the University of Warsaw.
Peter J. Jacques
Fellow – United States
Peter J. Jacques is Professor of the School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs and the National Center for Integrated Coastal Research at the University of Central Florida.
Renata Mieńkowska-Norkiene
Fellow – Poland
Renata Mieńkowska-Norkiene is an associate professor of political science at the University of Warsaw. She is also a sociologist and a mediator living in Warsaw and in Luxembourg.
Jeffrey M. Stonecash
Fellow – United States
Jeffrey M. Stonecash is a political scientist, and educator who has worked for the Maxwell School of Syracuse University in the department of political science.
Rico Isaacs
Fellow – United Kingdom
Rico Isaacs is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Lincoln in the United Kingdom. His research interests lay at the intersection of authoritarianism, nationalism,
Mariam Mufti
Fellow – Canada
Mariam Mufti is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political science at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Politics from Johns Hopkins University.
Jeffrey M. Stonecash
Senior Consultant United States – United Kingdom
Rudabeh Shahid is an Advisor at the European Institute for International Law and International Relations. She is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the South Asia Center of the Washington DC-based
Arshin Adib-Moghaddam
Fellow – United Kingdom
Arshin Adib-Moghaddam is Professor in Global Thought and Comparative Philosophies at SOAS, University of London and Fellow of Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge. Educated at the
Dimitris Skleparis
Fellow – United Kingdom
Dimitris Skleparis is Lecturer in the Politics of Security at Newcastle University. Dimitris’s research is at the intersection between critical security studies and migration/refugee studies.
Sureyya Sonmez Efe
Fellow – United Kingdom
Sureyya Sonmez Efe is a Lecturer in International Relations and Post-doc Research Associate at University of Lincoln, UK. Sureyya studied European Studies (BA Hons) at The Open University,
Luigi Achilli
Fellow – Italy
Luigi Achilli is senior researcher at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. He holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in political anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).
Peter S. Henne
Fellow – United States
Peter S. Henne is an Associate Professor of Political Science in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Vermont. His research focuses on religious politics
Kerstin Hamann
Fellow – United States
Kerstin Hamann (Ph.D. Washington University) is Pegasus Professor in the School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs (SPSIA) at the University of Central Florida, Orlando.
Patricia V. Tapia
Fellow –
Patricia V. Tapia is the EU representative of AJE Peru and an Ambassador of the Young Entrepreneurs wing of the Iberoamerican Federation (La Federación Iberoamericana de Jóvenes Empresarios, FIJE).
