Robin Niblett Executive Vice President Director, Europe Program Expertise : European political and economic affairs; U.S.-European political, military, and economic relations Robin Niblett was appointed executive vice president of CSIS in 2001 and is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the Center's management and performance and for developing strategies and programs to sustain the Center. He is also responsible for overseeing the Center's relationships with major private foundations and U.S. and international businesses. In addition, Dr. Niblett was named director of the CSIS Europe Program in July 2004, having long served as a senior fellow, directing the CSIS Atlantic Partnership project and specializing in U.S.-European security and economic relations and the ongoing process of European political and economic integration. Dr. Niblett is the author or contributor to a number of books and reports, including The Atlantic Alliance Transformed (CSIS, 1992) and From Shadows to Substance: An Action Plan for Transatlantic Defense Cooperation (CSIS, 1995), and coeditor with William Wallace of Rethinking European Order: West European Responses, 1989-97 (Palgrave, 2001). Dr. Niblett first joined CSIS in 1988 and worked as a research associate in the CSIS Political-Military Studies Program before becoming the CSIS European representative based in the United Kingdom from 1992 to 1997. He rejoined CSIS in Washington in 1997 as director of strategic planning. He received his B.A., M.Phil., and D.Phil. degrees from New College, Oxford, where he was also retained for three years as a lecturer in politics at Pembroke College. |