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Stephan Albrechtskirchinger

Stephan Albrechtskirchinger

Stephan Albrechtskirchinger is the Director of the EUI’s Communications Service. Before joining the EUI he held senior positions in communications and public affairs in the private and public sectors throughout Europe. He has followed courses at Harvard and INSEAD and is a graduate of Sciences-Po, Paris.

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Pasquale Ferrara

Pasquale Ferrara

Pasquale Ferrara is EUI’s secretary general. He was head of the analysis and planning unit at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs until 2011. He served as chief advisor at the Italian embassy in Washington DC until 2004. His diplomatic career started in 1984 and took him to several countries, including Chile and Greece.

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Ulrich Krotz

Ulrich Krotz

Ulrich Krotz is a professor at the EUI , where he holds the Chair in International Relations in the Department of Social and Political Sciences and the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. He has taught or held research positions at Oxford, Brown, Princeton, the EUI, and Harvard. He is Director of the programme on Europe in the World in the Global Governance Programme at the Robert Schuman Centre.

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Martin Scheinin

Martin Scheinin

Martin Scheinin is Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the EUI. Currently he is the President of the International Association of Constitutional Law. He was appointed as the first UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and counter-terrorism and was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee.

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Dieter Schlenker

Dieter Schlenker

Dieter Schlenker is the Director of the Historical Archives of the European Union. Prior to this he worked for UNESCO in Paris and in Bangkok, at Ford Company Europe and at FAO in Rome. He holds a diploma from the Archival School of the Vatican Secret Archive and a PhD  from the University of Heidelberg.

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Anna Triandafyllidou

Anna Triandafyllidou

Anna Triandafyllidou is Professor at GGP, where she coordinates the Research Area on Cultural Pluralism. Previously, she was part time professor at the RSCAS, she was Senior Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy. She serves as national expert and evaluator of research for several national and international projects and networks and agencies.

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J.H.H. Weiler

J.H.H. Weiler

J.H.H. Weiler is President of the EUI. Previously he served as Professor of Law and Jean Monnet Chair at Harvard Law School and subsequently as Director of the Jean Monnet Center at NYU School of Law. He is Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of International Law and the International Journal of Constitutional Law.

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Jennifer M. Welsh

Jennifer M. Welsh

Jennifer M. Welsh is Professor and Chair in International Relations at the EUI and a Senior Research Fellow at Somerville College, University of Oxford. She was appointed by the UN Secretary General to serve as his Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect. Previously she  co-director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict.

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