European Union Experts
Professor for International Politics at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and former Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar
Lecturer, Maastricht University, Netherlands
Michael J. Geary (Irish) is Lecturer/Assistant Professor at Maastricht University in The Netherlands where his teaching and research focuses on Modern Europe and the European Union. A First Class Honours graduate (summa cum laude) of the National University of Ireland, he holds a Ph.D. from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. In January 2012, he was awarded a European Parliament-...
ACLS New Faculty Fellow and Lecturer in History, and Associate Director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Virginia
Dr. Piotr H. Kosicki specializes in the transnational history of 20th-century Europe, focusing particularly on religion, politics, and the history of ideas. He earned a Ph.D. in History from Princeton University for his work on state socialism’s reshaping of Catholicism in 20th-century Poland and France. Currently under preparation is his book entitled Between Catechism and Revolution: Catho...
Associate Professor of Modern European History and International Relations, University of Jyvaskyla
Rinna Kullaa is an area studies expert for South Eastern Europe and an Associate Professor of Modern European History and International Relations at the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland. She completed her postgraduate studies at St. Antony’s College, the University of Oxford and a doctorate University of Maryland. She works on modern Mediterranean history since the Sec...
Distinguished Professor of National Security Policy, Dept. of Economics, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University
Irene Kyriakopoulos, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of National Security Policy, Department of Economics, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University. She teaches Economics of National Security Strategy, Economics of Industry, and Political Economy of the European Union. She has served as Chair, Department of Economics; Course Director, Economics of National Se...
Formerly European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Technological Development, Directorate on Science, Economy and Society
Eleonore Pauwels is a public policy scholar with the Science and Technology Innovation Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Her primary focus is a comparative and critical analysis of the EU and US approaches towards the societal governance of synthetic biology. She is also examining the challenges that new forms of biotechnology pose for political and public policy org...
Assistant Professor, International Economic Relations, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
Former Associate Director of the Woodrow Wilson Center and Former Director of the West European Studies Program
Samuel F. Wells has taught at both Wellesley College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At the Wilson Center, he founded the International Security Studies Program in 1977 and directed that program until 1985. Since then he has served as Associate Director and Deputy Director of the Center while also serving as Director of West European Studies.His most rece...