Steven Blockmans

Dr Steven Blockmans is Senior Fellow at CEPS (Brussels) and ICDS (Tallinn), Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges, Natolin, Tirana), Editor-in-chief of the European foreign Affairs Review, and Project Coordinator of ‘REUNIR’, a three-year research project funded under the EU’s Horizon Europe programme. For more than 25 years he has combined his academic work with contract research carried out for EU and national donors, consultancy activities and training for professionals. He has advised governments of third countries on their relations with the EU and worked on numerous technical assistance projects in wider Europe and Asia. Steven was a tenured Professor of EU External Relations Law and Governance at the University of Amsterdam (2012-2022). Before joining CEPS in 2012, he was Head of Research at the Asser Institute, an international law centre based in The Hague. From 2010 to 2014, he was a Special Visiting Professor at the Law Faculty of University of Leuven. From 2007 to 2009 he served as a long-term expert on legal approximation in the framework of an EU-funded project in support for the Ministry of European Integration of Albania.