CURRENT GOVERNING BOARD
VICE-PRESIDENT
Saint Mary's University
Lyubov Zhyznomirska is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science and Global Development Studies at Saint Mary's University. Her research interests include such areas as the European Union's external migration and security relations, EU enlargement, and European migration governance (with a focus on irregular migration and return migration).
PRESIDENT
University of Victoria
Paul Schure is Professor of Economics at the University of Victoria, Canada, which he teaches classes in Microeconomics, Financial Markets, and European Economic Integration. He is also the Director of the European Studies Program at UVic and organizes the EU Study Tour annually on behalf of the Network of European Studies, Canada. Paul’s research interests include Financial Intermediation, Entrepreneurial Finance, and European Economics and Governance.
SECRETARY-TREASURER
Carleton University
Crina Viju-Miljusevic is an Associate Professor in the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at Carleton University. She is also the Co-Director of the Centre for European Studies at Carleton University. Her research interests include European economic integration, EU trade policy, and EU as an external actor.
MEMBERS AT LARGE
Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean
Chantal Lavallée is Associate Professor of International Studies and Director of the Centre for Security and Crisis Governance (CRITIC) at the Royal Military College Saint-Jean. She is an associate researcher at the Institute for Strategic Research at the Military School (IRSEM, Paris), the Jean Monnet Center Montréal and GRIP (Brussels). She holds a PhD in political science from UQAM. Her research focuses on the contribution of the European Commission in the fields of security and defence, as well as emerging technologies, drones in particular.
York University
Willem Maas, Professor of Political Science, Public & International Affairs, Social & Political Thought, and Socio-Legal Studies at York University, chairs the International Political Science Association’s Migration and Citizenship research committee and writes on EU and multilevel citizenship, migration, borders, free movement, and politics focusing on Europe and North America.
University of Toronto
Tommaso Pavone is an Assistant Professor of European Politics at the University of Toronto and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Oslo. His research traces how interactions between lawyers, courts, citizens, and policymakers impact political development, the rule of law, and democracy in the European Union. He has published in leading peer-reviewed journals and his 2022 book – The Ghostwriters: Lawyers and the Politics Behind the Judicial Construction of Europe – has won seven awards from various professional associations.
KU Leuven
Jan Wouters is Full Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam and Director of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and the Institute for International Law at KU Leuven. He also serves as Administrator of the America Europe Fund and is Of counsel at Omega Law. He is Visiting Professor at Paris2 and the College of Europe and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University. He has published widely on international and EU law, global governance and international organizations.