Jacques Pelkmans

Dr. Jacques Pelkmans is a Consultant at European University Institute.
He is also an Associate Senior Fellow at CEPS.
Previously, he was a professor of economics at the European University Institute in Florence, at the European Institute of Public Administration in Maastricht and at Maastricht University.
Dr. Pelkmans also held the Jan Tinbergen Chair at the College of Europe in Bruges.
He has published research with the Council on Foreign relations, Chatham House, WRR (the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy) and the European Institute for Asian Studies (of which he is founding director).
He has also been an advisor to several Asian and European governments, as well as the OECD, the European Commission (was a member of the Cecchini group), ASEAN and UNIDO.
Dr. Pelkmans has authored and co-authored a number of studies for the European Parliament (at CEPS) and for the European Commission and published extensively on EU economic integration, ASEAN economic integration, world trade, regulation and technical standards.
He studied economics at Tilburg University, International Relations at Johns Hopkins and gained his Ph.D.
in economics from Tilburg.