Michelle Egan

Michelle Egan is Jean Monnet Professor and Co-Director of the Transatlantic Policy Center in the School of International Service at American University. She is currently a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center, a think-tank in Washington DC. She specializes in international political economy, focusing on trade policy, governance, regional trade agreements, technical barriers to trade, standards, and regulatory cooperation.

She is the author of two single authored books including the award-winning Single Markets: Economic Integration in Europe and the United States (Oxford University Press) as well as three edited volumes, and more than forty book chapters and articles. She has written about various trade agreements (EU, CETA, TTIP), trade policy, economic integration, federalism and trade, compliance, and is currently working on projects related to an EU-Australia FTA, transatlantic regulatory cooperation, industrial subsidies and impact of trade policy on subnational politics in Europe and the US.

She has previously been the recipient of a Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowship, German Marshall Fund Fellowship, Council of Foreign Relations Fellowship, as well as recipient of grants from foundations and governments. She is past Chair of the European Union Studies Association, and editor of the Palgrave Series on the European Union. She has briefed US Ambassadors designate to various European countries and participated in policy briefings with various US and European government agencies, including Commerce, NIC, USTR, European Commission, European Parliament Liaison Office, among others.