Jean Blondel

Professorial Fellow

Professor Emeritus, EUI

Email:  jean.blondel@eui.eu     
Tel. [+39] 055 4685 - 819
Office: Villa Schifanoia, VS019

Biographical Note

Jean Blondel is a political scientist in the field of comparative politics. He became Professor of Political Science at the EUI in 1985 and was an External Professor from 1994 to 2000.

Prof. Blondel set up the Department of Government at the University of Essex in 1964 and co-founded the European Consortium of Political Research.

He was the winner of the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science 2004. He has been awarded honoris causa doctorates from the University of Salford, the University of Essex, the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, the University of Turku, the University of Macerata (2007) and the University of Siena (2008).