Thierry Chopin

Thierry Chopin has been special advisor to the Jacques Delors Institute on institutions and democracy since November 2018. He is an associate professor at Sorbonne University and a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, having also taught at Sciences Po, Mines Paris-PSL, and École Polytechnique. He was an associate expert at CERI and a visiting fellow at LSE during Brexit, as well as director of studies at the Robert Schuman Foundation and an associate expert at the Institut Montaigne.

Thierry Chopin has served as a scientific advisor at the Centre d’analyse stratégique (France Stratégie) and as a consultant at the CAPS of the MEAE. He chaired the Reflection Committee for the PFUE, which resulted in the report Une Europe pour aujourd’hui et pour demain. Souveraineté, solidarités, identité commune (La Documentation Française, 2022).

He holds a master’s degree in philosophy (Paris Nanterre University), a doctorate in political science (EHESS, under the supervision of Pierre Rosanvallon) and an HDR from Sciences Po. He is fluent in French and English.