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 

Anthony Teasdale has been Executive Director of the Europaeum since July 2024. He is also a Visiting Professor in Practice at the European Institute of the London School of Economics (LSE) and an Adjunct Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) of Columbia University, New York. He served as Director General of the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS), the in-house research centre and think tank of the European Parliament in Brussels, from 2013 to 2022. Earlier posts included working as Director for EU Internal Policies in the EP administration; as deputy chief-of-staff to the EP President; as head of policy, strategy and legislative planning for the EPP Group in the Parliament; and as a policy adviser in the secretariat of the EU Council of Ministers (EcoFin Council). Anthony has also served as a Special Adviser at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and HM Treasury in Whitehall. A former research fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, he is co-author of The Penguin Companion to European Union (2012) and Europe: The History of a Continent (2023). He is a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS).

scholarsprogramme.director@europaeum.ox.ac.uk
Tel +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.

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’ 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, 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.

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.

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.

alumni@europaeum.org