Biography
Dr. Veronica Anghel works at the intersection of comparative politics and international relations. As an assistant professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies she co-directs the European Governance and Politics Programme and leads the ‘Global Risks to the EU’ project. Her current research focuses on the European Union’s geopolitical role in the global order, and European integration and enlargement. She is also a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe and an Associate Editor for the Journal of European Public Policy. She has been awarded the Inaugural ‘Rising Star’ Award of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) in 2021.
Previously, Anghel was a Lecturer at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, where she taught courses on Risk in International Relations and Economy, and European Politics. She held fellowships at Stanford University (Fulbright), the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the EUI (Max Weber), and the Institute for Human Sciences Vienna (Europe’s Futures Fellow). Her research has been published in, among others, West European Politics, Political Science Quarterly, the Journal of European Public Policy, Political Communication, Foreign Affairs, the European Journal of Political Research. Her book ‘From Club to Commons: Enlargement, Reform and Sustainability in European Integration’ (Cambridge University Press 2025, with Erik Jones) proposes a new theory of European integration. She is the co-editor of Developments in European Politics 3 (Bloomsbury Academic) and sits on the board of the Council for European Studies (CES).
Anghel has practical experience working in international relations and politics from the time she served as a foreign affairs advisor for the Romanian Presidency, covering the country’s relations to NATO and the United States at the time of Russia’s annexation of Crimea. She was selected by the US Department of State to joint its International Visitor Leadership Program and has trained U.S. diplomats on European politics through the Foreign Service Institute.