Loukas Tsoukalis reinforces 'Europe in Crisis' Programme as Visiting Professor

Loukas Tsoukalis has joined the Department of European & International Studies as a Visiting Professor. He has written extensively on European integration and international political economy. Some of his books, notably The New European Economy and What Kind of Europe? have been among bestsellers in the field with several editions and translations into different European languages. He is currently working on the broader consequences of the economic crisis and the kind of Europe that may emerge as a result. He will work closely with Professor Anand Menon on the 'Europe in Crisis' programme at King’s.

Loukas Tsoukalis studied economics, international relations and European integration at the University of Manchester, the College of Europe in Bruges and the University of Oxford where he obtained his D.Phil. with a thesis on European monetary integration. He was Research Fellow at St. Catherine’s College and later University Lecturer in international relations and Fellow at St. Antony’s, College, Oxford. Since 1990, he has been Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at the University of Athens, and between 1997 and 2001 he was Professor at the European Institute at the LSE. He was for many years Director of the Economics Department of the College of Europe where he is still Visiting Professor, and also Visiting Professor at SAIS, Johns Hopkins, the European University Institute in Florence and Sciences Po in Paris. He is President of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) and a member of advisory boards of several European institutes, think tanks and academic journals. He is a former special adviser to the President of the European Commission and also a member of the High Level Group of the European Commission on the Modernisation of Higher Education in Europe. He is actively engaged in the European public dialogue.