Johns Hopkins UniversityEst. 1876
America’s First Research University
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 Leigh is distinguished visiting fellow at the German Marshall Fund (GMF) of the United States and was previously senior fellow at Bruegel; he has served as senior advisor, Covington & Burling LLP, Brussels; earlier he was 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. He received the KCMG award for his services to the European Commission.
His research, writing and public speaking focus on the future of the EU, enlargement, EU foreign and security policy; transatlantic relations; Turkey's relations with the EU; energy questions in the eastern Mediterranean; He writes and comments on European affairs for Geopolitical Intelligence Services reports online, Euractiv, EUalive, and other media.
Leigh holds a Bachelors degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and a PhD in Political Science from M.I.T.
His research, writing and public speaking focus on the future of the EU, enlargement, EU foreign and security policy; transatlantic relations; Turkey's relations with the EU; energy questions in the eastern Mediterranean; He writes and comments on European affairs for Geopolitical Intelligence Services reports online, Euractiv, EUalive, and other media.
Leigh holds a Bachelors degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and a PhD in Political Science from M.I.T.
- EU Enlargement: Exporting Stability or Importing Instability? , in Perspectives on Enlargement and Reform of the EU: Fit for 25, G. von Sydow, V. Kreilinger, P. Wadensjö (editors), SIEPS (2025)
- 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)