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The Executive Director for the Association is Sue Davis. The Administrator is Luke Foster.

The Committee comprises of three elected Officers (Chair, Secretary and Treasurer), six elected Committee members and also includes co-opted and ex-officio members. Terms of office, which start on 1 September each year, are usually for three years. All who are on the Committee are normally Trustees of the Association.  The Annual General Meeting is held in September each year.

Elected Officers | Elected Committee members | Ex-officio and Co-opted Committee members | Honorary President | Patrons

An outline of the structure and roles of the Committee and its members, as well as the Hon President and Patrons is available.  Nominations for the roles of Secretary and of two new Committee Members were invited from members by 31 January 2008, using the Nomination Form. Postal elections for existing positions which end in 2008, if contested, will take place during March 2008. 

The current elected Officers of the Association are:

The current elected Committee members are:

The current ex-officio and co-opted Committee members are:

Sub-Committees

European Studies Community Sub-Committee
Convenor: Nieves Pérez-Solórzano
Kenneth Armstrong, Jenny Fairbrass, David Galbreath, David Howarth, Vasilis Margaras, David Phinnemore, Uwe Puetter, Paul Statham, Simon Usherwood

Annual Conference Sub-Committee
Convenor: Nieves Pérez-Solórzano
Chad Damro, Jenny Fairbrass, Simon Usherwood

Practitioners' Forum
Convenor: Alex Warleigh-Lack
Liza Burdett, Shanez Cheytan, Dermot Hodson,  Margaret Watson

Extra Responsibilities of UACES Committee Members

Postgraduate Liaison: David Galbreath

Media: Amelia Hadfield

Editing of commissioned items in UACES News
the Feature on Research: David Phinnemore and Issues for the Profession: Judith Clifton

Recent past Chairs of UACES

• Prof Jo Shaw, School of Law, University of Edinburgh (2003-2006)

• Prof Clive Archer, Dept of Politics & Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University (2000-2003)

• Prof Stephen George, Dept of Politics, University of Sheffield (1997-2000)

• Prof Michael Smith, Dept of Politics, International Relations & European Studies, Loughborough University (1994-1997)

• Prof William Paterson, Institute for German Studies, University of Birmingham (1989-1994)

Recent past Officers of UACES

• Prof Roger Levy (Treasurer 2005-2007)

• Dr David Phinnemore (Treasurer 2001-2005)

• Dr Jill Preston (Treasurer 1998-2001)

• Prof John Redmond (Treasurer 1995-1998)

• Prof Ian Barnes (Treasurer 1992-1995)
   

• Prof Richard Whitman (Secretary 2002-2005)

• Dr Michelle Cini (Secretary 1999-2002)

• Jackie Gower (Secretary 1996-1999)

Honorary President of UACES

Sir Stephen Wall, GCMG  LVO

Stephen Wall joined the Diplomatic Service in 1968, working first in the UK Mission to the UN in New York, before returning to United Nations Department in London. In 1969, he was posted to Addis Ababa and then on to Paris, in 1972, as Private Secretary to the Ambassador. He returned to London in 1974. He worked successively in the Foreign Office News Department, on loan to the Prime Minister James Callaghan’s Press Office and as Assistant Private Secretary to David Owen, the then Foreign Secretary. From 1979 to 1983, Stephen Wall served in the British Embassy Washington. On return to the FCO he was Assistant Head and then Head of European Community Department (Internal). From 1988 to 1991, he was Private Secretary to three successive Foreign Secretaries (Geoffrey Howe, John Major and Douglas Hurd).  From 1991 to 1993, he returned to No. 10 as Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, John Major, responsible for Foreign Policy and Defence.

Stephen Wall served as British Ambassador to Portugal from 1993 to 1995.  He was the Permanent Representative to the European Union from 1995-2000. From 2000-2004 he was the Head of the European Secretariat in the Cabinet Office in London and EU adviser to the Prime Minister, Tony Blair. From June 2004 – June 2005 he was Principal Adviser to the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor.

Current positions held include:

• an Honorary Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge

• a member of the Council of University College London

• a member of the Council of Wilton Park

• a member of the Board of Trustees of the Thomson Foundation

• a member of the Franco-British Council

Stephen Wall has written and lectured extensively on the European Union. His book on Britain’s relationship with her EU partners, A Stranger in Europe, will be published in 2008.

Recent Honorary Presidents

• John Kerr, Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (2004-2007)

• David Williamson, The Lord Williamson of Horton (2000-2003)

• Sir Leslie Fielding KCMG (1990-2000)

UACES Patrons (2008 for a renewable three year term of office)

Paul Adamson (Director, The Centre, and publisher of E! Sharp)

Dr Martyn Bond (London Press Club, and formerly of the BBC, the Federal Trust, the Council of Ministers and also the EP)

Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (formerly UACES Honorary President, UK Permanent Representative to the EU, and UK Ambassador to the US)

Dr Michael Shackleton (European Parliament)

Dr Vaira Vike-Freiberga (former President of Latvia)
 

Prof Clive Archer (former Chair)
Manchester Metropolitan University: Dept of Politics & Philosophy, Geoffrey Manton Building, Rosamond Street West, Manchester M15 6LL
Tel: +44 161 247 3030, Fax: +44 161 247 6312, c.archer[a]mmu.ac.uk

Clive Archer was the Chair of UACES from 2000 - 2003. He is Research Professor in the Department of Politics & Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University. Up to 1996 he held various positions in the Department of Politics & International Relations, University of Aberdeen and was Jean Monnet Professor there from 1994. His main research interests are the Nordic region in Europe and European security. A recent book is 'Norway outside the European Union' (Routledge). Professor Archer is on the editorial board of the Contemporary European Studies series and was, until 2000, general editor of this series which was being published by Sheffield Academic Press.

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Prof Kenneth Armstrong
Queen Mary, University of London, School and Department of Law, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS:
Tel: +44 20 7882 3604, Fax: +44 20 8981 8733, k.a.armstrong[a]qmul.ac.uk

Kenneth Armstrong is Professor of European Law at the School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London. From an early collaboration with Simon Bulmer leading to the publication of The Governance of the Single European Market, his research interests have continued to straddle the law-political science divide in exploring governance issues in the EU. His most recent research has been into the evolution of new forms of governance in the EU with a particular focus on the open method of co-ordination and the role of civil society actors in OMC processes. He was a member of the Legal Task Force in the PF6 NewGov project. He serves on the editorial board of the JCER and the European Law Journal.

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Dr Liza Burdett (ex-officio Committee member)
Foreign & Commonwealth Office: Room W115B, King Charles Street, London SW1A 2AE
Tel: +44 20 7008 6241, Fax: +44 20 7008 6290, elizabeth.burdett[a]fco.gov.uk

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Ms Shanez Cheytan
British Embassy: 35, rue du Faubourg St Honoré, Paris Cedex 08   F-75383  France
Tel: + 33 1 44 51 32 56 ,   Fax: + 33 1 44 51 34 85, shanez.cheytan[a]fco.gov.uk

Shanez Cheytan works at the British Embassy in Paris, on secondment from the EU & International Strategy department of the Food Standards Agency in London.

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Dr Michelle Cini (ex-officio Committee member)
University of Bristol: Dept of Politics, 10 Priory Road, Bristol BS8 1TU
Tel: +44 117 928 8076,  Fax: +44 117 973 2133, michelle.cini[a]bristol.ac.uk

Michelle Cini is co-opted member of the Committee.  Together with Dr Tanja Börzel and Dr Roger Scully she is Editor of the  Contemporary European Studies, now published by Routledge.

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Dr Judith Clifton
Universidad de Cantabria, Departamento de Economía, Av de los Castros s.n., Cantabria E-39005, Spain
Tel: +34 9 4257 9918  Fax: 00 34 9 4220 1603 judith.clifton[a]unican.es

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Dr Chad Damro
Dept of Politics, University of Edinburgh, 40 George Square, Edinburgh  EH8 9LL
Tel: +44 131 650 6698, chad.damro[a]ed.ac.uk

Mrs Sue Davis (UACES Office)
UACES, School of Public Policy, University College London, 29-30 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9QU
Tel: +44 20 7679 4988, Fax: +44 20 7679 4973, sedavis[a]uaces.org

Sue Davis has been the Executive Director of UACES since 1994. Her background is in teaching modern languages and she speaks fluent French and German and can also communicate in Italian and Spanish.  She manages the UACES Secretariat.  She oversees the association’s day to day activities including the events organised and supported by UACES. She oversees the production of the quarterly newsletter, UACES News, and the development of the website and email lists.   She is also Administrator for JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, and for SCHES, the Standing Conference of Heads of European Studies.

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Dr Jenny Fairbrass
University of Bradford: School of Management, Emm Lane, Bradford BD9 4JL
Tel: +44 1274 234 435     j.fairbrass[a]bradford.ac.uk 

Jenny Fairbrass is a Lecturer in Strategy in the School of Management at the University of Bradford.  Her current research interests lie primarily in the areas of Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility.  Jenny has co-written and published a number of journal articles and book chapters concerned with British and EU environmental policy and policy-making, devolution in the UK, and environmental and business organised interests. She has co-edited a book with (with Alex Warleigh-Lack) entitled Integrating Interests in the European Union: The New Politics of Persuasion, Advocacy and Influence (London: Europa).  Previously Jenny worked at the University of East Anglia’s ESRC core funded Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment.  Before entering academia Jenny worked as a chartered accountant.

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Mr Luke Foster (UACES Office)
UACES, School of Public Policy, University College London, 29-30 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9QU
Tel: +44 20 7679 4975, Fax: +44 20 7679 4973, admin[a]uaces.org

Luke Foster has worked for UACES since June 2000. He has a Bachelor of Science (Hons.) and a Diploma in Computing and his duties include book-keeping, website maintenance, membership enquiries, conference registrations and database maintenance.

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Dr David J. Galbreath
Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Aberdeen, Edward Wright Building, Dunbar Street, Aberdeen AB24 3QY
Tel:  +44 1224 273 821,  d.galbreath[a]abdn.ac.uk

Dr David Galbreath is an elected member of the Committee and is the Post-Graduate liaison officer. He joined the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Aberdeen in 2004. His research interests are European organizations and politics in Central and Eastern Europe, including research on security, organization development, democracy and democratization, and minority rights. He has two books on minority politics in the Baltic States and the OSCE, with two books on democratization and European Security forthcoming.

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Prof Stephen George
University of Sheffield (retired): Dept of Politics, Elmfield, Northumberland Road, Sheffield S10 2TU
s.a.george[a]sheffield.ac.uk

Stephen George was the Chair of UACES from 1997 - 31 August 2000. He is Jean Monnet Professor in the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield. His specialist research interests are British policy in the EU, the impact on Britain of membership of the EU, and the politics of policy-making in the EU. His publications include An Awkward Partner: Britain in the European Community (3rd edn. 1998), and Politics and Policy in the European Union (3rd edn. 1996).

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Dr Amelia Hadfield

University of Kent: Dept of Politics & International Relations, Rutherford College, Canterbury CT2 7NX 
Tel: +44 1227 827 252, Fax: +44 1227 827 033  aeah[a]kent.ac.uk

Dr Amelia Hadfield is  now an elected  UACES Committee  member, having been previously co-opted onto the Committee for two years. She has served on the European Studies Sub-Committee, and currently oversees the Media & Directory portfolio. She lectures in European International Relations at the University of Kent. Her principle areas of research include European foreign policy (CFSP, ENP, energy security and development) and foreign policy analysis. Amelia directs the BiDiplôme (double degree) programme between IEP Lille and the University of Kent, the MA in International Relations and European Studies, the Politics MA of the Réseau Universitaire Transmanche, and the newly-established Energy Analysis Group at the University of Kent. Forthcoming publications include an edited textbook on foreign policy analysis (OUP, December 2007) and a critical introduction on foreign policy themes in history (OUP, 2008).

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Dr Dermot Hodson
School of Politics & Sociology, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX
Tel: 020 7631 6784, Fax: 020 7631 6787   d.hodson[a]bbk.ac.uk

Dr Dermot Hodson has recently moved to Birkbeck College London having been an economist at DG Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission and Visiting Professor in European Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Governance at the College of Europe, Natolin. He holds a B.A. in Economics and Philosophy from Trinity College, Dublin, an M.A. in European Economic Studies from the College of Europe, Bruges and a PhD in European Political Economy from the London School of Economics. He has published several articles on Economic and Monetary Union and new modes of EU governance in refereed journals and is a co-author of Adjusting to EMU (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

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Dr David Howarth
University of Edinburgh: Dept of Politics, Adam Ferguson Building, 40 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LL
Tel: +44 131 650 4254    Fax: +44 131 650 3945,  d.howarth[a]ed.ac.uk

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Mr Vasilis Margaras
Dept of Politics, International Relations and European Studies, Loughborough University, LE11 3TU
Tel: + 44 1509 222997, v.margaras[a]lboro.ac.uk

Vasilis Margaras is Chair of the UACES Student Forum and a doctoral student in the Dept Of Politics, International Relations and European Studies at Loughborough University. He was co-opted onto the Committee as a representative of UACES Graduate Student members in December 2006.  The Student Forum encourages closer contact between graduate students in the field of European Union Studies for both social and research purposes. Vasilis’s main research interests lie in the field of foreign affairs, security and defence as well as in comparative European politics. Before entering academia, he worked for various political candidates and MEPs in both Brussels and the UK.

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Dr Nieves Pérez-Solórzano  (Secretary)
University of Bristol: Dept of Politics, 10 Priory Road, Bristol BS8 1TU
Tel: +44 0117 331 0862,  Fax: +44 117 973 2133, n.perez-solorzano[a]bristol.ac.uk

Dr Nieves Pérez-Solórzano is a Senior Lecturer in European Politics in the Department of Politics at the University of Bristol.  Within UACES she is the Hon Secretary and a member of the Journal of Contemporary European Research editorial board.  She has previously served in the UACES committee as a co-opted member for two years.  Nieves has written a number of journal articles and book chapters on civil society and the politics of participation with special reference to the European Union and the impact of Europeanisation on interest politics in Central and Eastern Europe.  She has co-edited a special journal issue on Interest Politics in Central and Eastern Europe in Perspective on European Politics and Society (2006) and co-authored Constitutional Politics in the European Union (Palgrave 2007) Nieves has previously worked at the University of East Anglia and at the University of Exeter and holds a visiting position at the University of Salamanca.

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Prof Willie Paterson
University of Birmingham: Institute for German Studies, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
Tel: +44 121 414 7183, Fax: +44 121 414 7329, w.e.paterson[a]bham.ac.uk

William E Paterson is Professor of German Politics and Director of the Institute for German Studies at the University of Birmingham. Between 1990 and 1994 he was Salvesen Professor of European Institutions and Director of the Europa Institute at the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on various aspects of German politics. The theme of Germany and European integration has been an abiding preoccupation. His current interests include the management of bilateral relations in the European Union, policy transfer to the communist successor parties of East Central Europe and Governance in Contemporary Germany on which he is publishing a co-edited volume with Cambridge University Press in 2005. He was awarded an OBE in 1999 for “Scholarship in German Studies” and in the same year was awarded an Officer Cross of the German Order of Merit.  Professor Paterson is a former Chairman of The University Association of European Studies, (UACES) and The Association for the Study of German Politics. He was also Chair of the One Europe or Several? Programme of the ESRC. He is currently co-editor of the JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, and was formerly a co-editor of German Politics. Together with Neill Nugent he edits the European Union Series for Palgrave and co-edits the New Perspectives in German Studies also for Palgrave.

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Dr David Phinnemore
Queen's University Belfast: School of Politics & International Studies, Belfast BT7 1NN
Tel: +44 28 9097 3744, Fax: +44 28 9068 3543, d.phinnemore[a]qub.ac.uk

David Phinnemore is Senior Lecturer in European Integration in the School of Politics and International Studies, Queen's University Belfast where he teaches courses on the European Union, its external relations and enlargement. His research interests include association agreements, Romanian foreign policy and EU treaty reform. The last of these is the subject of the Penguin Guide to the European Treaties which he co-authored with Clive Church of the University of Kent. He is also author of Association: Stepping-Stone or Alternative to EU Membership? published in the UACES Contemporary European Studies series.

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Dr Uwe Puetter
Central European University: Dept of Public Policy,  Nador utca 9-11, Budapest  H-1051 Hungary
Tel: +36 1327 3000 x 2335   puetteru[a]ceu.hu  

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Prof Jim Rollo
University of Sussex: Sussex European Institute, Arts A Building, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QN
Tel: +44 1273 877 265, Fax: +44 1273 678 571, j.rollo[a]sussex.ac.uk

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Prof Jo Shaw
Edinburgh Law School, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh EH8 9YL
Tel: +44 131 650 9587  Fax: +44 131 650 6317, jo.shaw[a]ed.ac.uk

Jo Shaw has been Salvesen Professor of European Institutions since January 2005.  She was formerly Professor of European Law and Jean Monnet Chair at the University of Manchester from September 2001, and was convenor of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence based at the University of Manchester.  Previously, from 1995-2001, she was Professor of European Law and Jean Monnet Chair of European Law and Integration at the University of Leeds, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Law in Europe. She has also held posts at the Universities of Keele and Exeter, and University College London. During 1998, she was EU-Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence and Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. In 2003, she was a Visiting Professor at the Institut für Hohere Studien, Vienna. Jo Shaw’s teaching and research focuses on the field of the EU constitution and institutions, particularly in socio-legal and interdisciplinary perspective. In 2001 she was appointed a Senior Research Fellow at the Federal Trust for Education and Research, a London-based think-tank, to direct a study on Constitutionalism, Federalism and the Reform of the European Union.

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Prof Michael Smith
Loughborough University: Dept of Politics, International Relations & European Studies, Loughborough LE11 3TU
Tel: +44 1509 222 990, Fax: +44 1509 223 917, m.h.smith[a]lboro.ac.uk

Mike Smith was the Chair of UACES from 1994 - 1997.

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Paul Statham is Professor of Political Sociology in the Sociology Dept at the University of Bristol, and Director of the Network for European Political Communications (EurPolCom), which he founded as a centre at Leeds in 2000 (http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/eurpolcom/). He has received major academic research grants from the Economic and Social Research Council, European Union Framework Programme, and European Science Foundation totalling more than £1.8M. His recent research includes co-authorship of Contested Citizenship: Immigration and Cultural Diversity in Europe (Minnesota University Press 2005) and he has published more than 40 articles, including in the international journals American Journal of Sociology, Western European Politics, European Journal of Communications, and Harvard Journal of Press/Politics. He currently holds an ESRC grant on ‘Claims-making over the European Constitution’ is part of the award-winning European Social Survey team. He has previous held positions at the University of Leeds, the WZB Science Centre in Berlin, and the EUI Florence.

Prof Alex Warleigh-Lack
Department of Politics and History, School of Social Science, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH
Tel: 01895 266 978  alex.warleigh-lack[a]brunel.ac.uk

Alex Warleigh-Lack is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Brunel University. He is Chair of UACES for the period between September 2006 and September 2009, having been a member of the UACES Committee between 2001-4 and 2005-6. He was also local organiser for the 2006 UACES Annual and Research Conference, and, together with Michelle Cini and Tanja Börzel, was a Founding Editor of the UACES/Routledge book series, Contemporary European Studies. His most recent research monograph is Democracy in the European Union: Theory, Practice and Reform (Sage 2003), and his main research interests lie in the reform of the EU and comparative regional integration/regionalisation. He has published a total of seven books (including edited volumes) and numerous articles in leading peer-reviewed journals. Before working at Brunel, he held a Chair at the University of Limerick and academic positions at Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Reading. Before entering academia, he was Chief of Staff to the Chair of the European Parliament Committee on the Environment, Consumer Protection and Public Health.

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Ms Margaret Watson
Reader & Faculty Services Librarian, Bodleian Law Library, St. Cross Building, Manor Road, Oxford, OX1 3UR
Tel: +44 1865 271 463  Fax: +44 01865 271 475  margaret.watson[a]bodley.ox.ac.uk

Margaret Watson is Academic Services Librarian at the Bodleian Law Library, University of Oxford.  She has been responsible for the European Documentation Centre (EDC) since 2000, and is currently National Co-ordinator for UK EDCs.  She is a Committee Member of the European Information Association, and has published articles on EU information sources.

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