Sven biscop biography definition

Professor Dr. Sven Biscop obtained his degree in political science/public administration at Ghent University (Belgium) in , winning the best thesis award for his work on European defence.

Awarded the Paul-Henri Spaak PhD scholarship of the Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders, he defended his dissertation in , published as Euro- Mediterranean Security: A Search for Partnership (Ashgate, ). Currently he is the director of the Europe in the World programme at Egmont – the Royal Institute for International Relations, the think tank associated with Belgian Foreign Affairs, which he joined in His research focuses on the foreign, security and defence policy of the European Union and its Member States.

Sven also teaches at the Ghent University (since ) and at the College of Europe in Bruges (since ). He represents Egmont in the Higher Studies in Security and Defence, a course for security practitioners organized with the Belgian Royal Higher Institute for Defenc