Dr Fabian Zuleeg

Chief Executive of the European Policy Centre

Dr. Fabian Zuleeg is Chief Executive of the European Policy Centre. He remains Chief Economist at the same time (a post he has held since January 2010). Fabian holds a PhD on the political economy of EU accession from Edinburgh University. Fabian has worked as an economic analyst in academia, the public and the private sector.

His analysis focuses on EU economic policies, including economic governance and Economic and Monetary Union, EU budget, industrial policy, trade, Single Market, European labour markets and Europe's economic & social model. He has a long-standing interest in the political economy of European integration, with a particular focus on the UK-EU relationship, analysing the impact of Brexit on the UK and the rest of the EU, as well as the process of separation.

Fabian was appointed to the Standing Council on Europe, established by Scotland’s First Minister after the Brexit vote in 2016, and he is an Adviser to the Scottish Parliament’s Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee. He is currently a Member of the Executive Board of Transparency International EU, Honorary Fellow at the Europa Institute of the University of Edinburgh, and Member of the Advisory Board for the NI/IRL Brexit Witness project. He also chairs the Selection Committee for the European Friends of Accounts for the King Baudouin Foundation.

Areas of interest

• Europe, European Union, Europe’s political economy, Future of Europe, economic governance, EMU, Economic Monetary Union, EU budget, industrial policy, trade, Single Market, European labour markets, Europe'
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• social model(s), Brexit, the EU-UK re

Qualifications

PhD in Economics (The Political Economy of Accession of the Central and Eastern European Countries to the EU), Edinburgh University

MSc in Economics, Glasgow University

MA in Economics and International Relations, St Andrews University