EU Foreign Policy and Energy Diplomacy

POLIS Energy Security Series presents:

EU Foreign Policy and Energy Diplomacy a talk by Dr Alexandros Yannis, Energy Diplomacy Coordinator, European External Action Service, EU

Dr Alexandros Yannis is policy coordinator on global issues and responsible for energy diplomacy in the European External Action Service (EEAS) of the European Union. He has been a Member of the Cabinet of Catherine Ashton, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the European Commission and he has worked in the Council of the European Union for Javier Solana, the former EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy. He has also lived and worked in Geneva, New York, Boston, Kosovo and the Horn of Africa and he has extensive work and field experience in the Western Balkans, the Southern Caucasus, Turkey, Cyprus and Africa as well as on international negotiations, conflict prevention and energy geopolitics. He has also been Associate Professor at The Fletcher School of Tufts University in Boston, Visiting Scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University in New York and Research Fellow in the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. He is Research Associate in the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy in Athens (ELIAMEP) and he has lectured and published widely, particularly on European Union foreign and security policy.

For more information please contact: Alexandra-Maria Bocse, email: amb225@cam.ac.uk.