Current position
Professor of Political Economy and Digital Technologies, Loughborough University London
Courses offered
Previous professional affiliations
Economist, DG Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission
Professor of Political Economy, Birkbeck College, University of London
Education
- BA, Trinity College Dublin
- MSc, College of Europe, Bruges (Leonardo da Vinci, 1998-1999)
- PhD, London School of Economics
Research interests
Economic and Monetary Union; European integration; governance; EU institutions; global governance; British politics; treaty making.
Selected publications
- Circle of Stars: A History of the EU and the People Who Made It. Yale University Press, 2023.
- ‘The EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility: An Exceptional Borrowing Instrument?’ (with David Howarth), Journal of European Integration, 1-19, 2023.
- The Institutions of the European Union, 5th Edition (with Uwe Puetter and Sabine Saurugger), Oxford University Press, 2022.
- ‘The politics of FinTech: Technology, regulation, and disruption in UK and German retail banking’ Public Administration 99(4): 859-872, 2021.
- The Transformation of EU Treaty Making: The Rise of Parliaments, Referendums and Courts Since 1950 (with Imelda Maher). Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- The New Intergovernmentalism: States and Supranational Actors in the Post-Maastricht Era (with Christopher Bickerton and Uwe Puetter). Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Governing the Euro Area in Good Times and Bad. Oxford University Press, 2011.