Brigid Laffan appointed director of the Robert Schuman Centre

Brigid Laffan is the new director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. Formerly professor of European Politics at University College Dublin where she was vice-president between 2004 and 2011 she also served as the founding director of the Dublin European Institute from 1999. Professor Laffan is a member of the Mary Robinson Foundation for Climate Justice, the Fulbright Commission and was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2004. In 2012 she won the THESEUS Award for outstanding research on European Integration.

A full interview with Professor Brigid Laffan will appear in the this autumn’s edition of EUI Times.