Phil Michal Šimečka

Biography

Employment 2015 - present: Senior Researcher, IIR Prague 2011 - 2014: foreign policy advisor (accredited assistant) to Members of the European Parliament, Brussels 2013 - 2014: visiting researcher, Center For European Policy Studies, Brussels 2011: visiting lecturer, Comenius University, Bratislava 2010: visiting lecturer, Charles University, Prague 2007 - 2010: political risk analyst (part time), Exclusive Analysis, London 
 2004 - 2006: researcher, Financial Times, Prague 2002 - 2004: correspondent and editor, daily SME, Bratislava ∆ Education 2008 - 2012: D.Phil (PhD), University of Oxford, Nuffield College, Department of Politics and International Relations, thesis: “Exporting Post-Communist Experience: Intra-Regional Diffusion and Learning in Eastern Europe, 2003-2011” 2006 - 2008: M.Phil (with distinction), University of Oxford, St Antony's College, Russian and East European Studies 
 2003 - 2006: BA, Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences, political science and international relations


Research Interest

Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU European Neighbourhood Policy EU integration and enlargement 
 Foreign policies of new EU member states Politics of the post-Soviet region 
 Theories of democracy and democratization