Anthony Teasdale
Anthony Teasdale is Director-General of the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) – the new internal research centre and think tank of the European Parliament. He previously served as Director for EU Internal Policies in the Parliament’s secretariat and as deputy chief of staff to the President of the Parliament. Among his earlier jobs were Special Adviser to a British Foreign Secretary (Geoffrey Howe) and Chancellor of the Exchequer (Kenneth Clarke), as well as head of policy strategy and legislative planning for the EPP Group in the Parliament, and policy adviser in the secretariat of the EU Council of Ministers (Ecofin Council). Mr Teasdale is a visiting senior fellow at the European Institute of the London School of Economics (LSE) and co-author of The Penguin Companion to European Union (2012).