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John Kotsopoulos recently completed his PhD in International Relations. His doctoral dissertation, entitled “Do Perceptions Matter? Negotiating EU-Africa Relations”, assessed the role of perceptions and individual agency in an asymmetrical negotiation process. His case study was the Joint Africa-EU Strategy.
He holds an MSc in European Studies from the London School of Economics and an MA in Political Science from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
John is currently a consultant on foreign policy issues concerning the European Union and Africa. He worked at the Brussels-based European Policy Centre think-tank where he ran the EU-Africa Forum and the European Security and Global Governance programme. Prior to that, he was employed in Ottawa as a political desk officer at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, specialising in relations with the Commonwealth Caribbean region.