Dr. Steven Everts joined the Centre for European Reform in April 1999. He is the Director of the CER's transatlantic programme which covers the full range of US-European relations (foreign and security policy, trade issues plus financial and economic co-operation).
His own research focuses on trends in EU foreign policy, both in terms of the policies the EU should pursue and the institutional reforms that are necessary to make the EU a more influential global actor. How to maintain a close and constructive partnership with the US is another, increasingly important dimension of his work. Together with Charles Grant, he was the winner in May 2003 of the $10,000 essay competition organised by the Foreign Policy Association on the topic of 'The US and Europe: Transatlantic Drift or Common Destiny?'.
Steven has been the author of numerous articles on EU issues in leading European and North American publications, including Survival, the World Policy Journal, Internationale Politik and the International Spectator. He has written many articles for the Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, die Sueddeutsche Zeiting and NRC/Handelsblad. Steven holds a PhD in International Relations from Oxford University and an MA in Political Science from Leiden University in the Netherlands.