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Hartmut Mayer

Hartmut Mayer

Steven Muller Chair

Academic Director, Master of Arts in Global Risk

Senior Lecturer

About

Hartmut Mayer holds the Steven Muller Chair at SAIS Europe, and is the Academic Director, Master of Arts in Global Risk. Professor Mayer was Fellow and Tutor in Politics (International Relations), St. Peter's College, University of Oxford and has held visiting professorships at the University of Hamburg and GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies (2011-2014), Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo (2010); Wiener Ansprach Visiting Professor at Universite Libre de Bruxelles (2014), and OXPO Visiting Professor at Science Po, Paris (2014). He has also held research positions at the European University Institute, Florence; UPI, Helsinki; SWP, Berlin; JSPS Fellow at Waseda University, Tokyo (2006-07) and at SAIS Johns Hopkins, Bologna. Since 1997 also Region Head Europe at Oxford Analytica, a political and economic consultancy firm. Prior to his academic career, more than 10 years as a journalist, among others with DIE ZET, Sueddeutsche Zeitung and the German Press Agency. Professor Mayer was Director, European Studies Centre, University of Oxford, St. Antony's College (2017-2022), Acting Director, EUROPAEUM (2017-2020), Executive Chair, EUROPAEUM (2020-2024), and a member of the Oxford University Board of Alumni Relations. He received his D.Phil. (i.e. PhD) in International Relations, University of Oxford (St. Antony's College); M.Phil. in International Relations, Cambridge University (Gonville and Caius College); M.A.L.D., Fetcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; (Zwischenpruefung) Freie Universität Berlin.

Professor Mayer has written articles in various journals such as South African Journal of International Affairs, Journal of European Integration, and International Affairs.
 
 
 
 
 

Expertise

Regions

  • Europe
  • Germany
  • Japan

Topics

  • European Union and Transatlantic Relations
  • European Union Foreign Policy
  • International Relations

Languages

  • French
  • German
  • Italian