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The Fondation Wiener-Anspach is pleased to announce that the holder of the 2024-2025 Ganshof van der Meersch Chair at the Université libre de Buxelles is Meredith Crowley, Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge, Fellow of St John’s College and a Research Coordinator at the Janeway Institute at Cambridge.
Professor Crowley is a co-investigator of the publicly-funded Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR – London), and a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of CEPII and the Kiel Institute. Her research on international trade, multinational trade agreements, and trade policy has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, and she frequently appears in the media. Prior to arriving at Cambridge in 2013, Crowley worked in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. She has held visiting positions at Georgetown University, the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and Nanjing University. Her research has been presented at central banks and international institutions around the world, including the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization. Crowley received bachelor’s degrees in Asian studies and chemistry from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, a master of public policy degree in international trade and finance from Harvard University, and master’s and doctorate degrees in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
She will be welcomed at the ULB by Professors Chloé Brière (Director of the Institute for European Studies) and Glenn Margerman (ECARES – European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics).
As part of the Chair, Professor Crowley will give a public lecture at the ULB on Thursday 27 March, titled “The uncertain future of economic integration for Europe and the world”. More information on this lecture and on the full programme of the Chair will soon be published on our website.
The Ganshof van der Meersch Chair was established in 1995 in memory of Walter Jean Ganshof van der Meersch, founder and president of the Institute for European Studies at the ULB, holder of the chair of Public Law at the ULB, attorney general at the Belgian Court of Cassation and vice-president of the European Court of Human Rights. He was also the second president of the Fondation Wiener-Anspach. The chair, held at the ULB by a visiting professor from Cambridge or Oxford, focuses on the economic, historical, political and legal aspects of European integration or on public law.