The principal mission of the Research Council is to provide external advice to the Institute’s governing bodies on matters pertaining to research.
Its aim is to stimulate and maintain scientific excellence and strengthen the Institutes’ research through high-quality peer review. It discusses and formulates policy and strategy with a view to reinforcing the Institute’s profile to attract the best learners and academics at all career stages.
At its annual meeting, the Research Council decides on the resources to allocate to joint research initiatives submitted by EUI professors and periodically assesses the activities of academic units on a rotation basis.
Membership
The members of the Research Council are:
- Six highly qualified persons from outside the lnstitute, appointed by the High Council on a duly motivated proposal from the Strategic Standing Committee. Their term of office shall be 5 years, not renewable.
- Six highly qualified persons from outside the lnstitute, appointed by the Academic Council on a duly motivated proposal from the Principal in consultation with the Executive Committee. Their term of office shall be 5 years, not renewable.
- The Principal (ex-ufficio).
The Research Council is chaired by one of its external members. After consultation with Research Council members, the Chair is appointed by the Principal for a period of 3 years renewable.
- Susana Borrás, Copenhagen Business School
- Simon Deakin, University of Cambridge
- Axelle Ferriere, Sciences Po
- Tarunabh Khaitan, LSE Law School
- Prof. Massimiliano Marcellino, Bocconi University
- Matthias Middell, University of Leipzig
- Carina Mood, Professor, Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University
- Christine Musselin, SciencesPo
- Aleksandra Przegalińska, Kozminski University
- Morten O. Ravn, University College London
- Julie Ringelheim, FRS-FNRS and UCLouvain
- Maria Fernanda Rollo, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
- Jarle Trondal, University of Agder
- Jutta Allmendinger (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung)
- José Alvarez-Junco (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
- Gonzalo Anes y Álvarez de Castrillón (Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid)
- Enriqueta Aragonès, (Institut d’Anàlisi Econòmica, CSIC, Barcelona)
- Anthony Atkinson (London School of Economics and Political Science)
- Marietta Auer, Professor, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
- Efi Avdela (University of Crete)
- Maurice Aymard (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme)
- Maria Esther Barbé-Izuel (Universitat Autonoma, Barcelona)
- Anton Barten (Université Catholique de Louvain)
- Roberto Barzanti (European Parliament)
- Giorgio Basevi (University of Bologna)
- John Bell (University of Cambridge)
- Maxine Berg (University of Warwick)
- Maria Bigoni, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Bologna
- Richard Blundell (University College London)
- Dorothee Bohle (Central European University, Budapest)
- Laurence Boisson De Chazournes (University of Geneva, Faculty of Law)
- Michael J Bonell (Università di Roma La Sapienza)
- Raymond Boudon (Groupe d’Etudes des Métodes d’analyse sociologique Paris)
- Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck College, London)
- Nadia Calviño (Director General, Directorate General Budget, European Commission)
- Albert Carreras (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
- Paul Champsaur (INSEE Paris)
- Marcel Canoy (European Commission, Brussels)
- Marise Cremona (University of London)
- François Crouzet (University of Paris I-Sorbonne)
- Michel Crozier (Centre de Sociologie des Organisations Paris)
- Franco Della Peruta (Università di Milano)
- Mireille Delmas-Marty (Université de Paris-Panthéon-Sorbonne)
- Maurits Deloz (Belgium)
- Pierre Deyon (Académie de Strasbourg)
- Jacques Drèze (Université Catholique de Louvain)
- Jean-Claude Eeckhout (European Commission)
- Morten Egeberg (University of Oslo)
- Lady Diana Elles (European Parliament)
- Joan Esteban (Universitat Autonoma Barcelona)
- Gerda Falkner (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
- Arghyrios Fatouros (University of Athens)
- Jonathan Faull (European Commission)
- Maurizio Ferrera (University of Pavia)
- Jean-Paul Fitoussi (Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Economiques, Paris)
- Josep Fontana i Lazaro (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona)
- Raffael Fornasier (Council of Ministers)
- Jochen Frowein (Max-Planck-Institut Heidelberg)
- Ernst Gellner (University of Cambridge)
- Gino Giugni (Università di Roma)
- Yolanda Gómez (Universidad Nacionalde Educación a Distancia (UNED) and Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales)
- Guido Gonnella (Vice-President, European Parliament)
- Alfred Grosser (Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris)
- Bengt Hansson (Swedish Research Council)
- Pierre Hassner (Université de Paris)
- Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS))
- Colin Hay (Centre d'études européennes de Sciences Po)
- Werner Hildenbrand (Universität Bonn)
- Isabel Horta Correia (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon)
- Ellen Immergut (Humboldt-Universität Berlin)
- Roeland in ‘t Veld (Dutch School of Government the Hague)
- Hans Christian Johansen (University of Odense)
- Wilhelm Kewenig (Free University Berlin)
- Oddbjørn Knutsen, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo
- Jürgen Kocka (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung)
- Georges Kontogiorgis (University of Athens)
- Maria M. Kovacs (Central European University, Budapest)
- Hanspeter Kriesi (Universität Zürich)
- Brigid Laffan (University College Dublin)
- Emilio Lamo de Espinosa (Institut de Estudios Sociales Avanzados Madrid)
- Jacqueline Lastenouse (European Commission)
- Gotfried Leibbrandt (Open University Maastricht)
- Hartmut Lehmann (Max-Planck-Institut Göttingen)
- Ulrike Leopold (Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz)
- Ricardo Franco Levi (Commission of the European Union, Brussels)
- Luigi Lotti (Università di Firenze)
- Joni Lovenduski (Birkbeck College, London)
- Antoine Lyon-Caen (Université de Paris X-Nanterre)
- Neil MacCormick (University of Edinburgh)
- Inés Macho-Stadler (Universitat Autònoma, Barcelona)
- Luís Miguel Maduro Pessoa (European Court of Justice)
- Edmond Malinvaud (INSEE Paris)
- Paola Manzini (Department of Economics, University of Sussex)
- José Maria Maravall (Instituto Juan March, Madrid)
- Armando Marques Guedes (University of Lisbon)
- Patrick Masterson (University College Dublin)
- Karl Ulrich Mayer (Max-Planck-Institut Berlin)
- Luigi Mengoni (Corte costituzionale Roma)
- Diana M. Mishkova (Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia)
- Jörg Monar (College of Europe, Bruges)
- Bogdan Murgescu (University of Bucharest)
- Sergio Neri (European Court of Justice)
- Emile Noël (European Commission)
- Johan Olsen (University of Oslo)
- Mario Pedini (European Parliament)
- Lucio Pench (European Parliament)
- Anne Peters (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg)
- Jean-Claude Piris (Legal Advisor of the Council of the European Union)
- Guido Podestà (European Parliament)
- Anita J. Prazmowska (London School of Economics and Political Science)
- Michel Quévit (Université Catholique de Louvain)
- Eckard Rehbinder (Universität Frankfurt/Main)
- Lucrezia Reichlin, London Business School (LBS)
- Jacques Revel (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
- John Roberts (Merton College Oxford)
- Davide Rodogno, Professor of International History, Graduate Institute, Geneva
- Olof Ruin (University of Stockholm)
- Hélène Ruiz Fabri, Executive Director, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International European and Regulatory Procedural Law
- Antonio Sacchettini (Council of the European Communities)
- Samuel B. Saul (York University)
- Fritz Scharpf (Max-Planck-Institut Köln)
- Spyros Simitis (J-W Goethe Universität Frankfurt)
- Bruno Simma (International Court of Justice, The Hague)
- Quentin Skinner (University of Cambridge)
- Sir Gordon Slynn (European Court of Justice)
- Frank R, Smets (European Central Bank)
- Heike Solga, Head of research unit 'Skill Formation and Labor Markets', WZB (Berlin Social Science Center) and Professor of Sociology, Institute of Sociology (Freie Univesitaet Berlin)
- Luigi Spaventa (Università di Roma)
- Marianne Stenius (Swedish School for Economics and Business Administration Helsinki)
- Wolfgang Streeck, (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne)
- Palle Svensson (University of Aarhus)
- Piotr Sztompka (Jagiellonian University, Krakow)
- Giuseppe Tesauro (European Court of Justice)
- Jacques Thisse (CORE, Louvain-la-Neuve)
- Jacques Thomassen (Chair), Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences, University of Twente
- Noel Thompson (Department of Education, London)
- Niels Thygesen (University of Copenhagen)
- Antonio Tizzano (European Court of Justice)
- Otto Toivanen (Department of Economics, Aalto University School of Business)
- Gilbert Trausch (Centre d’études et de recherches européennes Luxembourg)
- André Tunc (University of Paris I-Sorbonne)
- Michel Vanden Abeele (Université Libre Bruxelles)
- Herman Van der Wee (KU-Leuven)
- Raimo Väyrynen (Academy of Finland)
- Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca (European Parliament, Brussels)
- Maria Antonietta Visceglia (La Sapienza, University of Rome)
- Anne Van Aaken (Law School, University of Hamburg)
- António Vitorino, Gonçalves Pereira (Castelo Branco & Associados, Lisbon)
- Klaus von Beyme (Universität Heidelberg)
- Helen Wallace (University of Sussex)
- Hannelore Weck-Hannemann (Universität Innsbruck)
- Philippe Weil (Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Brussels)
- Vincent Wright (Nuffield College Oxford)
- Ineta Zimele (Constitutional Court of the Republic of Latvia and Riga Graduate School of Law)