Michael Emerson
Associate Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)Michael Emerson is Associate Senior Research Fellow at CEPS. He began his career at the OECD (Paris, 1966–73). Upon accession of the UK to the EU in 1973, he joined the European Commission in the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs. His last position at the Commission was as its first Ambassador to the USSR and then Russia (1991–95). From 1996 to 1998, he was Senior Research Fellow at the London School of Economics. Mr Emerson joined CEPS as an Associate Senior Research Fellow in 1998 and worked on projects mainly concerning the conflict zones of the European neighbourhood, including the Balkans, Cyprus, the Middle East, and the Caucasus. More recently, he has focused his work on the East European neighbourhood, with projects on Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia.
