He completed his PhD at the London School of Economics in 2006, and has been at IBEI since 2008. His main research area is European foreign policy in multilateral institutions. Publications include Pursuing Effective Multilateralism: The European Union, International Organisations and the politics of decision making (Palgrave, 2010) and ‘The European Union and Multilateralism’ in Routledge Handbook on the European Union and International Institutions, K. E. Jørgensen & K. V. Laatikainen (eds.), (Routledge, 2013), ‘He has published in the Journal of European Integration, Journal of European Social Policy, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, and Global Society.