EU Expansion: Illusion or Reality?

Join the Europe and Eurasia Focus Area of the School of Advanced International Studies for the next installment in the David Calleo Lecture Series in European Studies. Professor Matthias Matthijs will host this event in room 170A at 555 Penn Ave. Sir Michael Leigh, Senior Adjunct Professor and Academic Director for the Master of Arts degrees in European Public Policy and Global Risk at SAIS Europe in Bologna, will be on campus next week. He will discuss the prospects for European Union enlargement. Coffee, cookies, and refreshments will be served.

Sir Michael Leigh is the Academic Director of the Master of Arts in European Public Policy, Academic Director of the Master of Arts in Global Risk, and Senior Adjunct Professor at SAIS Europe. Sir Michael is currently Senior Fellow, Bruegel, Brussels, and Senior Advisory, Covington & Berling LLP, Brussels. Previously he was senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (2011-2016); Director-General for Enlargement of the European Commission (2006-2011); Deputy Director-General for External Relations (2003-2006); cabinet member and official, European Commission (1977-2003); Assistant Professor of International Relations, SAIS Bologna Center (1976-1977); Lecturer in International Relations University of Sussex (1974-1976). Erskine Fellow (2017) University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
His research, writing and public speaking focus on the future of the EU, Brexit, enlargement, neighborhood policy; Turkey's relations with the EU, Europe's response to political change in the Mediterranean and Middle East; energy questions in the eastern Mediterranean; public opinion and foreign policy. He also has an interest in Asia-Pacific and its relations with Europe. He writes and comments regularly on European affairs for Geopolitical Intelligence Services reports online, Euractiv, and other media.
He holds a Bachelors degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from M.I.T.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, 555 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, United States