Speaker Bio
Dr. Heather Grabbe is director of the Open Society European Policy Institute, the European Union policy arm of the Open Society Foundations established by George Soros.
From 2004 to 2009 she was senior advisor to Olli Rehn, European commissioner for enlargement, responsible in his cabinet for the Balkans and Turkey. Before joining the Commission, she was deputy director of the Center for European Reform, the independent London-based think tank.
Her academic experience includes research at the European University Institute in Florence and Chatham House in London, She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Oxford, and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham. She has also taught at the London School of Economics.
Dr. Grabbe has published widely on a range of European issues. Her publications include “Can the EU Survive Populism?” co-authored with Stefan Lehne in 2016, and “The EU's Transformative Power: Europeanization through Conditionality in Central and Eastern Europe, published in 2006.
From 2004 to 2009 she was senior advisor to Olli Rehn, European commissioner for enlargement, responsible in his cabinet for the Balkans and Turkey. Before joining the Commission, she was deputy director of the Center for European Reform, the independent London-based think tank.
Her academic experience includes research at the European University Institute in Florence and Chatham House in London, She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Oxford, and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham. She has also taught at the London School of Economics.
Dr. Grabbe has published widely on a range of European issues. Her publications include “Can the EU Survive Populism?” co-authored with Stefan Lehne in 2016, and “The EU's Transformative Power: Europeanization through Conditionality in Central and Eastern Europe, published in 2006.
Full Name
Dr. Heather Grabbe
