Heather Grabbe

Heather Grabbe is director of the Open Society Institute–Brussels and director of EU affairs for the Soros network. From 2004–2009 she was senior advisor to European Commissioner for Enlargement Olli Rehn, responsible in his cabinet for the Balkans and Turkey. Before joining the commission, she was deputy director of the Centre for European Reform, the London-based think-tank, where she published widely on EU enlargement and other European issues.

Her academic career includes teaching at the London School of Economics, and research at Oxford and Birmingham universities, the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House, London) and the European University Institute (Florence). Grabbe has a PhD from Birmingham University and a BA and MA from Oxford University. She is fluent in English, French, and Italian.