Jolyon Howorth
Jolyon Howorth is Jean Monnet Professor ad personam and professor emeritus of European politics at University of Bath. He was visiting professor of public policy (2018-19) and a former fellow at the Project of Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship at Harvard Kennedy School as well as professor of political science and international affairs at Yale University (2002 to 2018). He has acted as a consultant to various European governments and U.S. administrations. British born, Howorth was awarded French citizenship in 2019 in recognition of his outstanding contributions to scholarship on France.
He has held visiting professorships at numerous universities, including Australian Defence Force Academy, Columbia University, Freie Universität zu Berlin, Luiss University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, New York University, Sciences Po, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Washington University. He has held a senior research fellowship at the European Union’s Institute for Security Studies. He is a senior research associate at the Institut Français des Relations Internationales, a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques, and has been a member of the advisory boards of the European Institute for Public Administration, the Centre for Defence Studies, the Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l'Ecole Militaire (IRSEM), the Centre National Jean Jaurès, the European Policy Centre, and the Centre for the Study of Security and Diplomacy. He is a senior research associate with the Martens Centre for European Studies.
Howorth has published extensively in the field of European security and defence policy and transatlantic relations, including 15 books and over 250 scholarly papers. Recent books include: Security and Defence Policy in the European Union, (Red Globe Press, 3rd edition forthcoming); Defending Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005: The EU, NATO and the Quest for European Autonomy, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); European Integration and Defence: The Ultimate Challenge? (Institute for Security Studies, 2000).
Daniela Schwarzer
Prof. Dr. Daniela Schwarzer is the Pierre Keller Visiting Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Executive Director for the Open Society Foundations Europe and Central Asia. Schwarzer is a renowned expert in European affairs and transatlantic and international relations. She is an honorary professor of political science at Freie Universität Berlin and a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center.
Prior to joining Open Society, Schwarzer was director and CEO of the German Council on Foreign Relations. Before this, she served on the executive team of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Prior to working at the fund, Schwarzer worked at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. She has been a special advisor to European leaders such as EU High Representative Josep Borrell and to countries including Poland and France during their EU Council presidencies. Schwarzer has also worked as an opinion page editor and France correspondent for the Financial Times Deutschland.
Schwarzer has held positions as a lecturer, researcher and academic fellow at institutions including at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Freie Universität Berlin, and the Hertie School of Governance. She serves on the advisory boards of the European Council on Foreign Relations and the Jacques Delors Institute and is a non-executive board member of BNP Paribas and Covivio.
Karl Kaiser
Karl Kaiser is a fellow at the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship at Harvard Kennedy School, where he is an adjunct professor for public policy emeritus. At CES, he is co-chair of the European Union Seminar. He was the Otto-Wolf-Director of the German Council on Foreign Relations, Bonn/Berlin, and is professor emeritus at the University of Bonn. He was also a Kennedy Fellow at CES. He has published numerous books and articles on German, British, French, and American foreign policies, transatlantic and East-West relations, European integration, and Asian-European relations.
Vivien Schmidt
Vivien Schmidt is Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and professor of international relations and political science at Boston University. At CES, Schmidt is co-chair of the European Union seminar. She has written widely on European political economy, institutions, and democracy and the role of ideas and discourse in political analysis. She is the author or editor of twelve books, including Europe’s Crisis of Legitimacy: Governing by Rules and Ruling by Numbers in the Eurozone (OUP 2019), Resilient Liberalism in Europe’s Political Economy (with M. Thatcher, 2013), and Democracy in Europe (OUP 2006), named by the European Parliament as one of the ‘100 Books on Europe to Remember.’ Recent awards include decoration as Chevalier in the French Legion of Honor, the European Union Studies Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for her current project on the “Rhetoric of Discontent: A transatlantic comparison of the rise of populism.”
