Kalypso Nicolaïdis

Nicolaïdis holds a Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University, a Master in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, a Master in International Economics and a Diplome Service Public from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. Before moving back to Oxford, she taught European affairs and international relations at Harvard University where she was associate professor at the Kennedy School of Government. She has also held visiting professorships around Europe, including at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration in Paris, at the College of Europe in Bruges as the professorial chair on Visions of Europe, in Sciences-Po, Paris as Vincent Wright chair, and at the School of Transnational Governance in the European University Institute. At Oxford, she chairs the RENEW programme (Rethinking Europe in a Non European World), the Euro-Mediterranean network RAMSES, coordinated by the Maison Mediterraneenne des Sciences de l'Homme in Aix en Provence, and the EU-WTO Oxford programme in collaboration with the German Marshall Fund. She has been advising Greek Foreign Minister George Papandreou on European affairs since 1996 and chaired the International Group of Expert Advisors on the Convention for the Future of Europe and the Greek Presidency. She was advisor to the Dutch presidency of the EU  and worked with the European Commission on the White Paper on Governance (subsidiarity, global governance), She produced a report on the European Neighborhood Policy for the European Parliament.