CIFE (Centre international de formation européenne)

Laurent Baechler studied International Relations and Economics in Paris. He received his PhD in Economics in 2000. He taught at the Marmara University in Istanbul and at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris, before joining the teaching staff of Science Po Paris in 2003. Since 2005, he has been working with CIFE - IE•EI and directs the module "Economy and Globalisation". Since 2014 He is the Editor-In-Chief of the acedemic journal "L'Europe en Formation". Since 2013 he is Director of the European Integration-Global Studies Branch.

Matthias Waechter was born in Bonn in 1965. After his studies of History and Philosophy at the Universities of Bonn, Freiburg, Paris, and Rochester, he took his PhD at the University of Freiburg in 1994. He was a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute Paris in 1997/98 and a Fulbright Fellow at New York University in 1999. In 2000, he joined CIFE and in 2006 as Director of the Institut européen. Since 2013, he serves as Director General of CIFE. He specialises and teaches U.S. history, contemporary France, Franco-German relations and European integration.

Sergio Fabbrini is Director of the Luiss School of Government and Professor of Political Science and International Relations at LUISS Guido Carli, where he holds a Jean Monnet Chair in European Institutions and Politics. Since 1996, he is Recurrent Professor of Comparative Politics at the Department of Political Science and Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California at Berkeley. In 2004 he succeeded Giovanni Sartori as Editor of “Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica” that he directed until 2009. He received several academic prizes and lectured and taught.