Michael Leigh
Academic Director, Master of Arts in European Public Policy
Senior Adjunct Professor
About
Sir Michael Leigh is Academic Director of the Master of Arts in European Public Policy, and Senior Adjunct Professor at SAIS Europe. Sir Michael is currently Senior Fellow, Bruegel, Brussels, and Senior Advisory, Covington & Berling LLP, Brussels. Previously he was senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (2011-2016); Director-General for Enlargement of the European Commission (2006-2011); Deputy Director-General for External Relations (2003-2006); cabinet member and official, European Commission (1977-2003); Assistant Professor of International Relations, SAIS Bologna Center (1976-1977); Lecturer in International Relations University of Sussex (1974-1976). Erskine Fellow (2017) University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
His research, writing and public speaking focus on the future of the EU, Brexit, enlargement, neighborhood policy; Turkey's relations with the EU, Europe's response to political change in the Mediterranean and Middle East; energy questions in the eastern Mediterranean; public opinion and foreign policy. He also has an interest in Asia-Pacific and its relations with Europe. He writes and comments regularly on European affairs for Geopolitical Intelligence Services reports online, Euractiv, and other media.
He holds a Bachelors degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from M.I.T.
His research, writing and public speaking focus on the future of the EU, Brexit, enlargement, neighborhood policy; Turkey's relations with the EU, Europe's response to political change in the Mediterranean and Middle East; energy questions in the eastern Mediterranean; public opinion and foreign policy. He also has an interest in Asia-Pacific and its relations with Europe. He writes and comments regularly on European affairs for Geopolitical Intelligence Services reports online, Euractiv, and other media.
He holds a Bachelors degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from M.I.T.
- Relaunch or disintegration? What Covid-19 means for the future of Europe, EUROPP – European Politics and Policy, blog run by The London School of Economics (2020)
- Europe's Response to Challenges from China and Russia, in Rekindling the Strong State in Russia and China, S. Bianchini and A. Fiori (editors), Brill (2020)
- Afterwords, in Outside the EU: Options for Britain, M. Westlake (editor), Agenda Publishing (2020)
- European Integration and the Common Fisheries Policy, Croom Helm (1983)
- Nine EEC Attitudes to Enlargement, in Sussex European Papers : the Mediterranean Challenge (1978)
- Mobilizing Consent: Public Opinion and American Foreign Policy, 1937-1947, Greenwood Press (1976)