Professor Alex Brianson is Executive Director of CRonEM and Deputy Head of School at the Department of Politics at the University of Surrey. He received his PhD from Nottingham Trent University in 1997 and his BA Joint Honours in Politics with French from the University of Bristol in 1993.
Professor Brianson joined the School of Politics at the University of Surrey in October 2011. His current role is Professor of EU Politics, and also Executive Director of CRonEM, the Centre for Research on the European Matrix (www.surrey.ac.uk/cronem).
Professor Brianson previously held chairs at Brunel University (2006-11) and the University of Limerick (2004-6). Before that, he was Deputy Director of the Institute of Governance, Public Policy and Social Research at Queen’s University Belfast 2001-2003, and before that he was a Lecturer and Research Fellow at the University of Reading (1997-2001). He also worked in the European Parliament as Adviser to Ken Collins MEP, the then Chair of the Committee on the Environment, Consumer Protection and Public Health 1996-7.
Professor Brianson was Chair of UACES, the world’s largest EU studies association, 2006-9.