Anthony Teasdale

Focus areas: European Union institutions, politics, policies and history, transatlantic relations, EU foreign and security policy

Anthony Teasdale is a Visiting Professor in Practice at the European Institute of the London School of Economics (LSE) and Adjunct Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University, New York. At the LSE, he chairs (with Martin Westlake) a weekly seminar on 'The EU in Practice: Politics and Power in the Brussels System'. At Columbia, he teaches a short course on 'EU policy-making and new global challenges'.

From 2013 to 2022, Anthony was Director General of the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS), the in-house research center and think tank of the European Parliament in Brussels. The 300-strong EPRS is the second largest parliamentary research body of its kind internationally, after the Congressional Research Service in Washington DC.

Anthony has also served as Special Advisor (senior political advisor) to a British Foreign Secretary (Sir Geoffrey Howe) at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and to a Chancellor of the Exchequer (Kenneth Clarke) at HM Treasury in London, as well as working in the general secretariats of both the EU Council of Ministers (Ecofin Council) and the European Parliament in Brussels.

From 2002 to 2006, Anthony was Head of Policy Strategy and Legislative Planning for the center-right EPP Group in the European Parliament. From 2007 to 2012, he worked in the private offices of two successive Presidents of the European Parliament - Hans-Gert Poettering and Jerzy Buzek - before becoming Director for EU Internal Policies in the Parliament's administration in 2012. 

In the academic world, Anthony has been a Research Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University and Lecturer in Politics at Corpus Christi and Magdalen Colleges, Oxford University, as well as his more recent visiting roles at Columbia and the LSE.

In addition to a 860-page book on EU politics, policy and history - 'The Penguin Companion to European Union' (fourth edition, 2012), co-authored with Timothy Bainbridge - Anthony has published a study of the European policies of French President Charles de Gaulle (in the LSE's LEQS series, 2016), and articles on EU, US and UK politics in various journals. He will be publishing a 90-page 'Afterword' - entitled 'The Making and Breaking of Post-Wall Europe, 1985-2023' - in a new edition of Jean-Baptiste Duroselle's book, 'Europe: A History of its Peoples' (Viking, 1990), to be issued by Penguin (Michael Joseph) in the fall of 2023.

Education

• MPhil in Politics, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
• BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE), Balliol College, University of Oxford