Europaeum team

andrew.graham@balliol.ox.ac.uk

Biography

Dr Andrew Graham is the Chair of the Trustees of the Europaeum, having also chaired the Academic Council and the Executive Committee. He was the driving force in conceiving, implementing and raising the funding for the Europaeum Scholars’ Programme. He is the former Master of Balliol College, Oxford, and is the Founder and a Senior Fellow of the Oxford Internet Institute.

Earlier in his career he was Economic Adviser to the UK Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition, a Fellow and Tutor in Economics at Balliol, and Warden of Rhodes House. He has been a Board Member of Channel Four Television, a Trustee of the Scott Trust which owns the Guardian and the Observer, and a Trustee of Reprieve.

executive.director@europaeum.org 

Tel.: +44 1865 284481 

Julian has had a distinguished international career spanning education, professional membership organisations, international development and humanitarian affairs. Before joining the Europaeum, he served as Executive Director of the Institute of Masters of Wine, where he successfully guided the organisation through a period of strategic growth and strengthened its international reputation. 

He has lived and worked across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean and Latin America, and brings extensive experience in building international networks, leading organisational transformation and fostering collaboration across cultures and disciplines. Previous roles include leadership positions with the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists, Leonard Cheshire Disability, the Saïd Foundation, the United Nations and the International Red Cross as well as having served on the boards of charitable organisations.  

Early in his career, he was a trainee at the European Commission in Brussels, an experience that sparked a lifelong commitment to international cooperation and multilateral engagement. 

scholarsprogramme.director@europaeum.ox.ac.ukTel +44 1865 284480

Dr Tracey Sowerby is a historian of early modern politics and culture. She has published a monograph on Richard Morison (Henry VIII’s leading propagandist) and co-edited a collection of essays on early modern diplomatic practice. She has extensive experience of European universities and research institutes, especially via being Principal Investigator on an AHRC international research networking award (Textual Ambassadors) and a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award (Centres of Diplomacy, Centres of Culture). She is also widely versed in academic administration and student counselling. Her current research centres on the history of early modern diplomacy with particular interests in institutional change, cross-confessional diplomacy, and the role of culture in international communication.

ideasprogramme.director@europaeum.org

Miles is a historian with interests in politics and religion in Western Europe. He received his DPhil from Oxford in 2009 and held fellowships at St Hugh’s College, Oxford and Wolfson College, Oxford before joining the Australian Catholic University (2019–23).  Miles’s books include Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450–1700 (Oxford University Press, 2017) and he has published widely on Catholic History in journals such as Past & Present, Modern Italy, The Sixteenth Century Journal, and Renaissance Studies. Miles is a regular contributor to various media outlets including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC, The Globe & Mail, and The Sydney Morning Herald. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2023 and has been a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society since 2014.

Nick Barker is Assistant Programme Director at the Europaeum.

office@europaeum.org or administrator@europaeum.org
Tel +44 1865 284482

Sasha joined the Europaeum as Chief Administrator in July 2024. She is the first point of contact for enquiries about the Europaeum.

Rosie Evans is the Finance Offier at the Europaeum. She can be contacted at finance@europaeum.org.

Adrienne Cheasty has joined the Europaeum as Public Policy Advisor, following an Academic Visitorship at St Antony’s College, where she was a founding member of the European Political Economy Project (EuPep) in the European Studies Centre. She was previously at the IMF, most recently as Deputy Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department, responsible for Europe. She established the IMF’s Climate Change Policy Assessment program. Research areas include euro area fiscal-financial architecture, financial crisis management, debt issues, measurement of the fiscal deficit, and financial aspects of climate change. She also served on the board of the International Public Sector Accounting Standard-setters (IPSASB), where she advocated for the development of standards covering environmental assets and liabilities. She was a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Councils on Fiscal Sustainability and on Public Finance and Social Protection, and has taught at Harvard, Yale and Johns Hopkins.