Dr Athanassios Gouglas

I am senior lecturer and programme leader of the MPA programme at UWS London. I am also honorary senior lecturer at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom, and research fellow at the Public Governance Institute at KU Leuven, Belgium.

I specialize in politics, public policy and administration, European and global governance with a focus on political advisers and policy making in the executive triangle and legislative elites. My research has been published in top journals like the European Journal of Political Research (EJPR), Journal of European Public Policy (JEPP), Public Administration and Party Politics. I currently represent the UK in the Management Committee of the EU Cost-Action Project CA22150 – Comparative Research on the Executive Triangle in Europe (CoREx) and also lead Working Group 4 on Accountability and Transparency in Executive Triangle in Europe.

I am a fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the United Kingdom and also a pracademic. As former civil servant and political adviser I have hands-on practical experience in strategic planning, policy formulation, analysis, implementation and monitoring, management of large national and international policy projects, government inter-executive coordination, legislative politics, public administration management and mobilization, EU & international organizations negotiation.