Dr Heather Grabbe

Heather Grabbe is a Senior Fellow at Bruegel and a Visiting Professor at the UCL European Institute and KU Leuven. Her research focuses on the political economy of the European Green Deal and how the climate transition will change the EU’s international relationships and external policies. She was previously Director of the Open Society European Policy Institute in Brussels, Deputy Director of the Centre for European Reform and senior advisor on the Balkans and Turkey to then European Commissioner Olli Rehn. Her writing has appeared in the Financial Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and The Guardian, among others.

Heather has a PhD from Birmingham University and a BA and MA from Oxford University. 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). She speaks French, Italian, and German.

European Institute Activities

As a Visiting Professor with the UCL European Institute, Heather contributes to the Institute’s work in several of her areas of expertise, including Rule of Law and climate change, through policy roundtables, workshops, and seminars. She also teaches on undergraduate courses on European Politics and Policy.