Pierpaolo SETTEMBRI

Pierpaolo Settembri is an EU official since 2007, currently working as Assistant to the Director-General for Mobility and Transport in the European Commission. He is fluent in Italian, English, French and Spanish.

Course offered: “Negotiation and Decision-Making in the EU: a simulation game”

Previous professional affiliations: He worked in the Secretariat General of the Commission as a coordinator for G7/G20 matters and external policies and in the General Secretariat of the Council, mainly dealing with development and trade. Prior to joining the EU institutions, he has been a Fulbright Scholar and Global Emile Noël Fellow at New York University, a researcher at the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) in Maastricht, a research fellow at LUISS “Guido Carli” in Rome and a teaching assistant at the College of Europe in Bruges.

Education: Political scientist by training (LUISS “Guido Carli”, 2001), Pierpaolo Settembri holds a Master in European Politics from the College of Europe (2002) and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Florence and Sciences Po - Paris (2006).

Other professional activities: He teaches post-graduate courses at Sciences Po - Paris, at the European College of Parma, and at LUISS "Guido Carli" in Rome.

Research interests: His publications on various EU-related topics include several articles in international journals, a co-authored book on learning how EU negotiations work through simulation games (2012), a monograph on the farm lobby in Europe (2008) and a co-edited volume on the impact of enlargement on the EU institutions (2008).