Over Brigid Laffan
Until this summer, Brigid Laffan was director and professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and director of the Global Governance Programme at the European University Institute (EUI), Florence, where she has worked since 2013. In 2018, Politico ranked Laffan, a long time professor of political science who grew up in Ireland, among the women who shape Europe. Laffan is a leading thinker on the dynamics of European integration. She has published a number of important books on Europe, such as Integration and Co-operation in Europe (1992), The Finances of the Union (1997), Europe's Experimental Union - Re-thinking Integration (2000, co-authored), Core-periphery Relations in the European Union (2016, co-edited) and Europe’s Union in Crisis: Tested and Contested - West European Politics (2016).
Laffan was awarded the THESEUS Award for outstanding research on European Integration, and the UACES Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2010, she received the Ordre national du Mérite from the President of the French Republic.
