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Amelia Hadfield is an Associate Professor in European Affairs at VUB, and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for European Studies (IES/VUB). She teaches European foreign and public policy, and foreign policy analysis. Her special area of interest is EU energy security issues as they relate to Russia, the Mediterranean and the EU’s Neighborhood. As Founder and Director of the Energy Analysis Group (EAG), Amelia has successfully brought together researchers and policymakers on key aspects of EU energy security in a variety of scholastic and practical formats since 2006.
Prior to joining VUB/IES in September 2010, Amelia served as Lecturer in European International Relations in the School of Politics and International Relations, at the University of Kent, Canterbury, teaching courses on EU foreign policy, EU public policy and Foreign Policy Analysis. At Kent she directed the MA in International Relations and European Studies and coordinated Erasmus and bilateral links between Kent and France, Finland and Belgium. Amelia was based in Brussels for her doctoral studies on foreign policy (University of Kent Brussels), where she undertook both graduate teaching and several years of work at the Energy Charter Secretariat.
Amelia is an Associate Fellow with Chatham House’s Energy, Environment and Development Programme (EEDP), and the Pan-European Institute (Finland). She also teaches courses on EU foreign policy at the University of Cambridge Summer School and Sciences Po Lille. She actively promotes European studies, and is the UACES Secretary for 2008-11.