Experts & Staff

Susi Dennison

Senior Director for Strategy and Transformation
Senior Policy Fellow

Areas of expertise

EU foreign policy; climate and energy; cohesion and politics in the EU; migration

Languages

English and French

Biography

Susi Dennison is a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Her topics of focus include strategy, politics and cohesion in European foreign policy; climate and energy, migration, and the toolkit for Europe as a global actor.

At ECFR, Dennison acts as chief of staff to the Director and leads the European Power programme as well as the organisational growth and transformation process. She has been with ECFR since 2010 in a range of roles including developing ECFR’s work with public opinion data on foreign policy, leading ECFR’s foreign policy scorecard project for five years, working on North Africa in the early years of the MENA programme, and exploring how the EU can pursue a values-based foreign policy which supports human rights and democracy in a contested world. Before joining ECFR, Dennison worked for Amnesty International and HM Treasury in the United Kingdom.

View from London: Ammunition for ‘Out’

The terrorist attacks in Brussels were immediately picked up by the 'Out' campaign, but the government is promising European cooperation

View from London: A victory for British logic

The new focus on outsourcing and readmission may tick the boxes needed for London to strengthen its involvement

A new deal on EU burden-sharing

Large scale refugee flows into the EU are the new normal. Though the numbers tailed off somewhat over the winter from their peak in…

View from London: Leading on foreign responses

London has steered clear of internal EU divisions over burden sharing, but is willing to engage externally on refugee crisis

Publications

Articles

Own coal: Why Europe could lose its green transition

European leaders’ need to sanction Russia is pushing them to develop alternative sources of fuel. They should not lose sight of the role that clean energy could play in this.

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In the media