Brigid Laffan

Brigid Laffan is Emeritus Professor at the European University Institute. She was Director and Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and Director of the Global Governance Programme and the European Governance and Politics Programme at the European University Institute (EUI), Florence until her retirement in August 2021. She is a member of the Board of the Mary Robinson Foundation for Climate Justice. In November 2018 she was ranked among the women who shape Europe by POLITICO and was also awarded by the University of Limerick Alumni Association with its highest honour. In 2012 she was awarded the Ordre national du Mérite by the President of the French Republic, followed by the THESEUS Award for outstanding research on European Integration (2012) and the UACES Lifetime Achievement Award (2014).