Analysts
Dr Stephanie Hare
Senior Analyst, Western Europe
Joined Oxford Analytica in 2010. Holds a PhD and an MSc from the London School of Economics and a BA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Has held the Alistair Horne Visiting Fellowship at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, and lectured and tutored in history at Oxford. Worked as an IT and strategy consultant at Accenture PLC. Specialises in contemporary France. Her most recent publication, co-authored with Vanessa Rossi, is “Social Investment: The EU ‘Gold Standard’ and the Key to Future Prosperity” in Solidarity: For Sale? The Social Dimension of the New European Economic Governance (Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Stiftung, 2012), pp. 95-115.
Dr Michael Taylor
Senior Analyst, Eastern Europe
Joined Oxford Analytica in 2002. Holds a DPhil from Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. Has worked for over twenty years as an analyst of Soviet and East European affairs, first for the BBC’s Monitoring Service, specialising in Afghanistan and Poland, and then for the Economist Intelligence Unit, focusing on the western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia, Macedonia and Yugoslavia) and on the prospects for NATO enlargement.
Region Heads
Dr Jens Bastian
Senior Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy
Based in Athens, Jens Bastian is a member of the Task Force for Greece of the European Commission, responsible for financial sector developments, privatisation facilitation and investing in Greece initiatives. Previously he worked at the European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR), where he was responsible for economic research and policy analysis, assisting in program coordination and the management of the Agency’s projects in the field of economic development and institution building in South Eastern Europe. Formerly DAAD lecturer in the Political Economy of Transition for Central and Eastern Europe at the London School of Economics in London, U.K. He holds a Ph.D. in Social and Political Science from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Jens is Managing Editor of the Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies (Taylor & Francis, London).
Dr Liz David-Barrett
Lecturer in Sociology, University of Oxford
Specialist on the political economy of the Balkans and international policy towards South-east Europe. Formerly editor of the Oxford Analytica Eastern Europe Daily Brief. Also previously EU affairs researcher at London think-tank, The Institute for Public Policy Research, focusing particularly on institutional reform issues arising from the prospective enlargement. Her PhD thesis was on political corruption in Eastern Europe.
Dr Hartmut Mayer
Official Fellow and Tutor in Politics at St. Peter's College, University of Oxford
Hartmut has been teaching politics and international relations at St. Peter's College, University of Oxford, since 1998. Currently (2011-14) he is also a long-term Visiting Professor at Hamburg University and the GIGA German Institute for Global and Areas Studies. His academic interests include German and EU politics, international relations theory, EU-Asia relations (in particular Japan), European responses to rising powers and comparative regionalism. He holds degrees from the Free University of Berlin (B.A. equivalent), the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University (M.A.L.D.), Cambridge University (M.Phil.) and Oxford University (M.A. and D.Phil.). He has held research and visiting posts at the European University Institute in Florence (1995), Waseda University (2006-07)and Hitotsubashi University (2010), both in Tokyo. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a freelance journalist in Germany for more than ten years, among others with Sueddeutsche Zeitung and DIE ZEIT.
Prof Anand Menon
Professor of West European Politics, University of Birmingham
Anand Menon is Professor of West European Politics at the University of Birmingham. He holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford and has acted as a Special Adviser to the House of Lords EU committee. Recent publications include Governing Europe, Comparative Federalism: The EU and US in Comparative Perspective and European Politics (all published by OUP), as well as journalism in the Financial Times, the London Review of Books and Prospect.
Sir Ivor Roberts
President of Trinity College, Oxford
Formerly British Ambassador to Yugoslavia, Ireland and Italy.
