Carlo Clini

Posted on November 13, 2012 by acgr

Carlo Clini currently works for the Veneto Region as Head of the Brussels’ Unit for the Coordination of European Projects, European Network and Institutional Relations and he is the deputy director of Brussels’ Representative Office.

He studied political economy at the University of Parma (BA, MA) and international economics at Boston University where he obtained a Postgraduate Certificate in International Relations for Business and an MSc in Administrative Studies with a focus on multinational commerce. The focus of his PhD is on environmental security.

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Juan Corrochano Bernal

Posted on November 13, 2012 by acgr

Currently reading for a PhD at the Brussels School of International Studies as well as assisting with the delivery of the Masters programmes and teaching undergraduates at Vesalius College in Brussels.

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John Macgregor

Posted on November 13, 2012 by acgr

John Macgregor, Organ Scholar and Exhibitioner of Balliol College, Oxford spent 4 years as a teacher and musician, and then 34 years as a diplomat, serving latterly as Director General for trade and Investment Promotion in Germany, as Ambassador in Poland, as FCO Director for Non-Europe, as Ambassador to Austria and the UN in Austria, and as British Governor of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

From 2007 to 2009, he was Dean of the University of Kent at Brussels, the only British postgraduate school of international relations, law and migration in continental Europe.

He is a trustee of the Shannon Trust (which combats illiteracy among prisoners in the UK), of the leading British vocal ensemble, Il Fagiolini, and a Governor of Chichester University.

He now lives in South Africa, with his wife Judith who is the current British High Commissioner, and works as a visiting lecturer.

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Dr Manfred Kohler

Posted on November 13, 2012 by acgr

Manfred Kohler holds a PhD from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, in Political Science. His thesis was entitled “European Identity”. His dissertation and research focused on European integration and identity, including matters of Economic and Monetary Union.

He also holds a Master’s degree in Translation Studies, including Spanish, English and German as working languages. He received the Nick Mueller Fellowship for outstanding academic performance from the State of Tyrol and the city of Innsbruck, also enabling him to conduct dissertation research at CenterAustria of the University of New Orleans in the United States.

He has published books entitled “Language Politics in Belgium and the Flemish-Walloon Conflict: Reason for a State to Fail or Driving Force behind Federalism and Conciliation” , “European Identity”, and is currently editing a book on interdisciplinary globalization research “The Phenomenon of Globalization: a Collection of Interdisciplinary Globalization Research Essays”‏.

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Professor Wade Mansell

Posted on November 13, 2012 by acgr

Wade Mansell is Barrister and Solicitor (New Zealand) and Senior Lecturer in Law. He joined Kent Law School having previously taught in Wellington and London. He is the Convenor of the Public International Law courses at both undergraduate and graduate level and is the Convenor of the LLM in International Law with International Relations at the Brussels School of International Studies. He regularly supervises postgraduate research students. He has published in the areas of public international law, human rights, development and international debt, torts, and in the sociology of law. His two co-authored books, The Wrongs of Tort (with Joanne Conaghan – Pluto 1993) and A Critical Introduction to Law with Belinda Meteyard and Alan Thomson – Cavendish 1995) have recently been republished in second editions (1999). With Joanne Scott of the Faculty of Law Cambridge he has written on development, trade and regional policy. Current research includes a study of the so-called right to democratic governance, and a wider project of a critique of international law concerning itself with North/South issues.

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Inez Summers

Posted on November 8, 2012 by ijs

Inez Summers is Office Manager at the University of Kent’s Brussels campus and is responsible for general student support for incoming and current students, event management and timetabling plus deals with issues with building infrastructure and library facilities.

Before taking up the post as office manager in the Brussels campus, Inez worked for four years at the University of Sheffield supporting international students. She has also held positions at HSBC Bank, the House of Commons and parliamentary constituency offices in the north of England, various publishing companies in London and spent time living and working in France, Switzerland, Germany and Australia.

Inez holds a BA Honours degree in European Studies from the University of Hull in the UK and, in addition to her role as office manager, recently undertook the MA International Migration at the Brussels campus graduating in November 2014 with a Distinction. From the north of England, Inez speaks English fluently and conversational French, Spanish and Dutch.

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Alastair Ross

Posted on November 8, 2012 by acgr

Alastair Ross is Head of European Administration at the University of Kent and responsible for its postgraduate centres in Brussels, Paris, Athens and Rome.

Prior to this he was an officer in the British Army and served on operations in Bosnia, Iraq/Kuwait, Albania, Congo-Brazzaville, Indonesia, Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone.  A graduate of the French Staff College, he was a member of the UK’s deployable crisis management team before moving to command a squadron of Challenger 2 tanks.  His final appointment was in the Directorate of Military Operations, in the Ministry of Defence, where he was responsible for managing the directorate’s commitments as well as being the ministry’s lead for the military contribution to the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and the restructuring of resistance to interrogation training of the British Armed Forces.

He holds an MA in International Conflict Analysis and taught Military Strategy at the Brussels School of International Studies. His research interest is on the Private Military Industry.

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Maria Schiller

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Richard Barber

Maria Schiller started her studies at the BSIS in October 2009 as a research student on the MPhil/PhD program in Migration Studies. She earned her MPhil degree from the University of Vienna in 2007 in Cultural and Social Anthropology. Part of her studies she has conducted at the University of Utrecht, NL as an exchange student in 2004/05.

After her studies she has been lecturing at the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Vienna and has collected some experiences in both academic and non-academic project work (research project „Contesting Multiculturalism: Gender Equality, Cultural Diversity and Sexual Autonomy in the EU”, internships in a number of NGOs working on migrant issues, traineeship at the Council of Europe Jan-April 2009).

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Bojan Savic

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Richard Barber

Bojan Savić has started his studies at the BSIS in October 2008 as a research student in the MPhil/PhD program in International Relations. Previously, he earned his BA degree from the University of Belgrade in 2006 in Political Science and International Affairs, and two consecutive MA degrees, first from Maastricht University (2007) in European Studies and in 2008 from the Nice-based Institut Européen des Hautes Etudes Internationales in Advanced European and International Studies.

His research interests include Security Studies, International Relations Theory, NATO and Game Theory.

Prior to his studies abroad, Bojan was continuously engaged in the Serbian NGO sector, working with “Open Communication” – Serbia’s largest university debate network – as a club coordinator at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Belgrade.

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Bilyana Petkova

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Richard Barber

Bilyana Petkova began her studies at the BSIS in September 2009 as a research student in the MPhil/PhD programme in International Relations. Previously, she earned her BA degree from the Panteion University of Athens in 2006 in International and European Relations and her MA degree in European Studies from the Maastricht University (2007). Bilyana spent the spring term of 2011 as a Visiting Scholar and Research Assistant at the Yale Law School and is about to complete her dissertation in spring 2013 as a Visiting PhD Student at the Law Department of the European University Institute in Florence.

Before starting her PhD studies at BSIS, Bilyana worked as a Consultant in EU Affairs in Bonn, research assistant at the Maastricht University and completed an internship at the European Commission Representation in Athens.

Teaching

In the period October 2009-December 2011 Bilyana led tutorials for the following courses:

Constitutional Law of the European Union
The European Policy Process
Fundamentals of Dissertation and Research
Negotiation and Mediation in Conflict Resolution

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