Christophe Crombez in Italy

Christophe Crombez, PhD ’94, is a specialist in European politics and the political economy of the European Union (EU). He has been at The Europe Center (TEC) at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford since 1999, and served as a senior research scholar there since 2013. His responsibilities include the minor in European studies and the Undergraduate Internship Program in Europe. He teaches 'Introduction to European Studies' and 'The Future of the EU: Challenges and Opportunities' in Stanford’s Program in International Relations. In addition to his work at Stanford, Christophe has been professor of political economy at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium since 1994. 

Christophe grew up just 20 minutes from the main EU institutions in Brussels, and has been passionate about European politics and EU integration since he gave a talk on the topic in primary school in the 1970s. He is a frequent visitor to Northern and Central Italy, regions where he has close family ties and has held visiting professorships. During the trip, Christophe will give lectures on the EU's history and the challenges it faces today, such as the rise in populism, the energy crisis, and the survival of the Euro. He will also focus on Italian history and politics, and the peculiarities of politics in Northern Italy.

• Senior research scholar, The Europe Center, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

• BA, 1989, Applied Economics, Finance, KU Leuven

• PhD, 1994, Business, Political Economics, Stanford University