Roundtable: Europe’s Elections

Federico Fabbrini

Professor of EU Law & Founding Director of Dublin European Law Institute

Federico Fabbrini is Full Professor of European Law at the School of Law & Government of DCU, the Founding Director of the Brexit Institute and of the Dublin European Law Institute (DELI). He holds a PhD in Law from the European University Institute and previously held academic positions in the Netherlands and Denmark. He has been a Fellow in Law & Public Affairs at Princeton University and a Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute.

He is the author of 4 monographs in English: “Fundamental Rights in Europe” (Oxford University Press 2014), “Economic Governance in Europe” (Oxford University Press 2016) “Brexit & the Future of the European Union” (Oxford University Press 2020) and “EU Fiscal Capacity: Legal Integration after Covid-19 and the War in Ukraine” (Oxford University Press 2022). Moreover, he is the editor or co-editor of a dozen books, including “The Law & Politics of Brexit” (Oxford University Press 2017), “The Law & Politics of Brexit. Volume 2: the Withdrawal Agreement” (Oxford University Press 2020), “The Law & Politics of Brexit. Volume 3: The Framework of New EU-UK Relations” (Oxford University Press 2021), “The Law & Politics of Brexit. Volume 4. The Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland” (Oxford University Press 2022) and “Law & Politics of Brexit. Volume 5: The Trade & Cooperation Agreement” (Oxford University Press 2024). He has also authored several studies and reports for the European Parliament and the Department of Finance of Ireland.

Federico Fabbrini has won circa €3 million of external funding. He is the PI of the Jean Monnet Network BRIDGE, the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence REBUILD, and the Jean Monnet Module PostBrexitLaw. He teaches EU institutional law, and the law & politics of Brexit, and has been supervising 9 PhD students to date.

He regularly features on the media and engages with EU institutions and national governments. He has presented his work to among others, the European Parliament, the European Central Bank, the European Commission, the European Court of Justice, the EU Fundamental Rights Agency, the European Securities and Markets Authority, the EFTA Court, and the UK Financial Conduct Authority. In 2019-20 he was awarded the Charlemagne Prize fellowship for research, in recognition of his work on the Future of Europe. In 2020-21, Federico was awarded the President’s Research Award — the first legal scholar to receive this prize at DCU. In 2022 he was listed Young European Leader of the Year.

Federico Fabbrini is since 2021 a knight of the order of the Star of Italy, by appointment of the President of Italy.

Markus Brunnermeier

Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Economics. Director, Bendheim Center for Finance

Markus K. Brunnermeier is the Edwards S. Sanford Professor in the economics department at Princeton University and director of Princeton's Bendheim Center for Finance. His research focuses on international financial markets and the macroeconomy with special emphasis on bubbles, liquidity, financial and monetary price stability, and digital money. In 2020, at the outbreak of Covid, he established a webinar series. 

Grigore Pop-Eleches

Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

I am a Professor of Politics and International Affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the Politics Department at Princeton University. I joined the Princeton faculty in 2003 after receiving my PhD in Political Science from UC Berkeley. I am co-director of the Princeton Workshop on Post-Communist Politics

My main current research interests are in comparative political behavior with a focus on authoritarian and post-authoritarian regimes (largely in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union). I have also worked on comparative and international political economy of Eastern Europe and Latin America, and on democratization and democratic backsliding, with a focus on the role of electoral behavior and political parties.

My first book, entitled "From Economic Crisis to Reform: IMF Programs in Latin America and Eastern Europe" was published by Princeton University Press in February 2009. My second book, "Communism's Shadow: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Political Attitudes" (joint with Joshua A. Tucker), was published in 2017 by Princeton University Press. My work has also appeared in a variety of academic journals, including The American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Democracy, Studies in Comparative International Development, and East European Politics and Societies.

Sophie Meunier Aitsahalia

Senior Research Scholar, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

Sophie Meunier is Senior Research Scholar at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. She is Director of the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society(Link is external) (Link opens in new window), Co-Director of the EU Program at Princeton(Link is external), and Acting Director of the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination ((Link is external) (Link opens in new window)2023-2024). She is the author of Trading Voices: The European Union in International Commercial Negotiations (Princeton University Press, 2005) and The French Challenge: Adapting to Globalization (Brookings Institution Press, 2001), winner of the 2002 France-Ameriques book award. She is also co-editor of several books on Europe and globalization, most recently Developments in French Politics 6 (Palgrave MacMillan 2020) and Speaking with a Single Voice: The EU as an Effective Actor in Global Governance? (Routledge, 2015). Meunier is Chair of the European Union Studies Association(Link is external) (Link opens in new window) (2023-2024). Her current work deals with the politics of investment screening mechanisms and the European Union's recent geoeconomic turn, including as part of the PRISM project(Link is external) (Link opens in new window) and the Beauty Contests(Link is external) (Link opens in new window) grant. She was made Chevalier des Palmes Academiques by the French Government.

Jean-Pierre Landau

Associate Professor,

Department of Economics, SciencesPo Paris

Professor Landau, an expert in monetary policy, financial stability and regulation, international monetary systems, and macroprudential regulation, has over 40 years of experience in the public sector, the banking and financial services industries, and academia. He has served as deputy governor of the Banque de France; executive director at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Washington, DC; and undersecretary for external economic relations at the French Treasury. He has also been a member of the board of directors for the Bank of International Settlements; a member of the Financial Stability Board; and a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development workgroup devoted to economic and financial policy (Working Party 3). Currently, Professor Landau is a professor in the Department of Economics at Sciences Po (Paris), where he is also a former dean of the School of Public Affairs. Additionally, he has been a visiting lecturer at Princeton University and Johns Hopkins University. Professor Landau has provided expert testimony in several international arbitrations. He has also been widely published and quoted in numerous journals and media outlets on topics including the financial crisis, Bitcoin, and global capital flows.