Desmond Dinan is Professor of public policy at George Mason University, USA, where he holds an ad personam Jean Monnet Chaira. He is a leading authority on the EU and has written several books on the subject, notably Ever Closer Union (4th edition, 2010), and Europe Recast (2nd edition, 2014). He has been a visiting fellow at the Netherlands Institute for International Relations (Clingendael), in The Hague; the European University Institute, in Florence; and the European Parliamentary Research Service, in Brussels. He taught for six years at the College of Europe in both Bruges, Belgium, and Natolin, Poland.