Director of the John Hopkins University Bologna Institute for Policy Research

Erik Jones is currently director of the John Hopkins University Bologna Institute for Policy Research in Italy. His major research interest is the field of political economy. He has held teaching positions at the University of Nottingham, Central European University of Prague and is currently a Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University in the UK. He obtained his BA at Princeton University, and thereafter a masters and PhD at John Hopkins-SAIS. He has authored The Politics of Economic and Monetary Union (2002) and Economic Adjustment & Political Transformation in Small States (2008), and has co-edited several books including the Oxford Handbook on the European Union (forthcoming in 2012) and European Responses to the Global Financial Crisis (2009). He is a contributing editor to the IISS journal Survival and sits on numerous editorial boards for journals such as The International Spectator.