Prof. Steven Blockmans is Deputy Director of the International Centre for Defence and Security (Tallinn), Associate Senior Fellow, and previously Research Director, at the Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels). He is also a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, and Editor-in-Chief of the European Foreign Affairs Review. Blockmans is the author of two books and served as rapporteur of high-level task forces on European Defence Union (chaired by Javier Solana, 2015) and More Europe in Defence (chaired by Sauli Niinistö, 2026). He is a frequent commentator at major media outlets and regularly briefs senior policy practitioners from the EU, its member states and G20 country governments.
