Elena LAZAROU
- Visiting professor, Interdepartmental European Advanced Studies (IDEAs) (Campus Bruges)
Dr. Elena Lazarou is the Director General of ELIAMEP. Between 2015 and 2025 she
worked in the European Parliament’s research service, including as acting Head of the External Policies Unit (2020-2024). She is also Assistant Professor of International Relations ( on leave) at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), Brazil where she also headed the Center for International Relations (2012-2014). Previously she was head of the Euro- Mediterranean Observatory of the Hellenic Center for European Studies; and researcher at the University of Cambridge, the London School of Economics and the University of Sheffield . Dr. Lazarou has published widely on EU foreign and security policy; transatlantic relations; geopolitics and multilateralism. She holds several fellowship and advisory positions, including at Chatham House, the European Policy Center (EPC) and the ARES Group.