Frederik Ponjaert

Researcher at the Institute for European Studies at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and Assistant Lecturer in Comparative Regionalism at SciencesPo (IEP-Paris). His research is on comparative regionalism, with an emphasis on European and Asian realities. He equally works on EU external action and inter-regional partnerships, again with a specific focus on Euro-Asian dynamics. More recently, both of these research strands have focussed on the developing EU-japan Relationship in light of the recently signed Economic Partnership and Strategic Partnership Agreements. His teaching covers topics such as “comparative regionalism”, “EU external action” and “EU-East Asian Relations” as well as “Japanese Foreign Policy” and is given alternatively in English, French, Dutch or Japanese.