Sébastien Maillard

Sébastien Maillard is a special adviser to the Jacques Delors Institute, of which he was director from 2017 to 2023. Based in London since then, he works for the Institute’s Centre Grande Europe, focusing on enlargement policy and the various candidate countries. He also works on UK-EU relations and the European Political Community.
Sébastien Maillard is an Associate Fellow at Chatham House, where he works on the Europe programme. He is a regular columnist on France Culture (Les Echos d’ailleurs). He sits on the governing or steering bodies of several European non-profit organisations (Fondation Jean Monnet pour l’Europe, Maison de l’Europe de Paris, Maison Robert Schuman).
A journalist by profession, he covered European affairs for ten years for the daily newspaper La Croix, where he was correspondent in Brussels and Rome (Vatican). He has also taught European affairs at Sciences Po (Paris) and Boston College.
A graduate of Sciences Po (Paris) and with a master’s degree in territorial management (Aix-Marseille), he is the author, with Enrico Letta, of Faire l’Europe dans un monde de brutes (Fayard, 2017) and Qu’avons-nous fait l’Europe? (Salvator, 2013), with a preface by Jacques Delors. He is a Knight in the National Order of Merit (2021) and has been appointed to the Order of the Legion of Honour (2024).