2025-2026 Scholars (Victoria Amelina promotion)
Alexander Tomlinson (ECON) grew up surrounded by an international family. With a degree from UCL in politics and economics, he is eager to deepen his understanding of the policies shaping the EU’s internal market and economic governance.
2024-2025 Scholars (Jacques Delors promotion)
Sarah Cloherty (EID) is the first person in her family to attend university. At Oxford, she learned to appreciate the importance of history, giving European policymakers valuable insight into the contexts of current challenges to European prosperity, cooperation and integration. For European governments to be able to safeguard democratic values at a time of rising right-wing rural populism they need to understand the historical legacies that influence current voter behaviour.
Méabh O’Mainnin (EID) was born in Belfast, studied at St. Andrews University in Scotland, and spent a year working in Austria, close to the Italian and Slovenian border. Her interest in questions relating to language, culture and identity in Europe’s regional borderlands and in the role of the EU in identity formation processes has helped her to a Schuman traineeship within the secretariat of the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
Samuel Crooks (POL) aims to follow a career in the EU policy sector and is particularly interested in EU foreign and migration policy in addition to ethics and transparency issues. After the College of Europe he won a twelve-month internship at Microsoft in Brussels within the European Government Affairs team.
2023-2024 Scholars (Madeleine Albright promotion)
Eva Bell (POL) is on a quest to reunite herself with her European identity following the shock of Brexit. Having recently studied and worked in four continental countries, she is keen to deepen her understanding of the workings and the problems that the European institutions exist to tackle.”
Justin Goshorn (POL) is a graduate of the University of Bath. Having since worked in several EU-facing roles in Brussels, he sees himself as part of a new generation of young British professionals reanalysing and reaffirming the ever-important relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union.
Benjamin Owen (POL) After an EU traineeship at the European Court of Auditors he became a Value for Money Analyst at the National Audit Office, London. His experiences in Europe have enabled him to lead on engaging with global partner institutions about international best practice from which the UK can learn.
Michael Reid (IRD) on graduation joined the civil service Fast Stream and has worked in the Cabinet Office’s European and Global Issues Secretariats.
2022-23 Scholars (David Sassoli promotion)
Anunita Chandrasekar (EIS) won a fellowship at the Centre for European Reform on graduation. This was directly linked to the understanding of European politics and policy she developed whilst at the College.
Anna Gray (POL) has just started a Blue Book traineeship in Brussels, working for the spokesperson of the European Green Deal.
Caitlin Morgan (EIS) followed her Politics and International Relations degree at Bristol with a 3-year graduate scheme run by UK Treasury. Her interests focus on economics and demography and she hopes to continue working on public policy.
Beth Rees (EIS) joined the private office of the President of the European Patent Office before working in the Chief Sustainability Office of the European Patent Office in Munich.
2021-2022 Scholars (Vogel-Polsky promotion)
Owen Morgan (POL) is currently undertaking a Blue Book traineeship at the European Commission, working in the unit responsible for the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement and the Northern Ireland Protocol.
Rhys Nugent (EIS) followed a Blue Book traineeship at the Commission on graduation, later becoming a Campaign Officer for Culture Action Europe (a Brussels-based NGO). This includes advocating for transformative cultural policies around Europe that protect artistic freedoms.
Sophie Sundaram (LAW) is working for a Brussels-based law firm.
2020-2021 Scholars (Mario Soares promotion)
Ciara Campbell (IRD) is now working in public affairs in Brussels.
Sam Gregory-Manning (POL) after working as a Communications Officer for the European Environmental Bureau, an environmental NGO in Brussels, moved to London, working for the RSPB on climate policy, maintaining the UK-EU connection where possible.
Emma Hill (LAW) has returned to Scotland to start the Diploma in Professional Legal Practice, to be followed by a two-year traineeship with Shepherd and Wedderburn (the largest law firm with its headquarters in Scotland), after which she will be a qualified solicitor in Scotland.
Philippe Lefevre (IRD) is the security and defence advisor for the British Chamber of Commerce to the EU & Belgium. This comes after his successful time working at NATO and the EEAS, and he is equally engaged in a number of youth-led non-profit organizations focusing on education and civic empowerment.
2019-2020 Scholars (Hannah Arendt promotion)
Brunat Scholars in Bruges, autumn 2019.
Denise Osei (Law), having recently completed a traineeship in the Research and Data Unit of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, is aiming to qualify as a barrister.
Lewis Reed (Law) worked as an academic assistant after graduation and teaches the Introductory Course in EU Competition Law in Bruges alongside his position as an Associate at Garrigues in Brussels (a Spanish international law firm) specialising in EU and Competition Law.
2018-2019 Scholars (Manuel Marín promotion)
William Spence (Law) is a qualified barrister with a London chambers.
Katherine Pye (IRD) earned a Fellowship at the Centre for European Reform after her graduation. She became a doctoral researcher at the London School of Economics with a full scholarship from the Economic and Social Research Council to research the EU’s peacebuilding efforts.
Susanna Garside (IRD) is in the final year of her PhD in climate change politics at the European University Institute in Florence; she is currently a visiting researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Rebecca Pritchard (EIS) is a policy officer in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
2017-2018 Scholars (Simone Veil promotion)
Charlotte Brett (IRD) is a Policy Advisor at the Brussels office of the global law firm Steptoe & Johnson working at the crossroads between EU law and policy. She advises on climate, trade and sanctions policy, as well as sustainable finance.
Joel Mason (IRD) is now a trainee in the Communications unit of DG DEVCO (Development Cooperation) at the European Commission.
Anna Wilson (EIS) is now a social policy researcher in the UK.
2016-2017 Scholars (John Maynard Keynes promotion)
Sophie Buckingham (IRD) is a senior research manager in the Brussels office of Ecorys, an international research agency. Her work focuses on labour mobility, employment rights and gender equality.
Samuel Kerr (IRD) is working as a Senior Researcher to a frontbench Labour MP.
Nye Williams-Renouf (IRD) joined HM Treasury after graduating from the College, and was most recently Head of Competition in its EU team. He currently works for the New Zealand Treasury, Te Tai Ohanga, as a senior analyst.
2015-2016 Scholars (Frederic Chopin promotion)
Zoe Grimes (POL) is now working in the Home Office on the policy for child migrants.
Veronika Kucherchuk (EIS) works at the European Endowment for Democracy as an Eastern Partnership Programme Officer Assistant.
Adin Samson (IRD) has worked in Brussels at the UK Mission to the European Union since graduation. He is now the Senior Europe Intellectual Property Attaché.
Roland Scarlett (POL) is a lawyer in Clifford Chance’s Public International Law and Intellectual Property teams. His work includes advising States on matters of international trade law. Most recently he has been advising the UK on its COVID-19 vaccine procurement.
2014-2015 Scholars (Falcone & Borsellino promotion)
Alex Braley (EPA) is passionate about sustainability, working at SustainablePublicAffairs, a consultancy focused exclusively on cases with a positive impact on the environment. He teaches an introductory course to the EU at Sciences-Po in France. Previously he worked at the European Commission and then for HMG in Brussels and London.
Jonathan Peters (IRD) has experience of working closely with the European Parliament and is in the Department for Exiting the EU in London.
Zara Reid (IES) is Head of the Child Protection Unit, part of the Consular Directorate at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office.
Andrew Wright (LAW) is a judicial assistant to the President of the Queen’s Bench Division in the Court of Appeal, having been selected for his EU expertise.
2013-2014 Scholars (Voltaire promotion)
Adam Bruton (LAW) works at the UK Permanent Representation in Brussels.
Simon Budden (EPA) went on from the College of Europe to work at the European Parliament in Brussels and then with the Department for Transport in London, working on maritime security.
Samuel Villiers (LAW) works with a Spanish law firm in Brussels.
2012-2013 Scholars (Václav Havel promotion)
Oliver Hodgson (LAW) studied for a Master’s in European Political and Administrative Studies following his law degree at Cambridge University. He has always maintained an interest in European affairs and now works for a City law firm, where he continues to practise EU law.
Alex Keynes (EPA) went on to work in the European Parliament, with two brief stints either side working as a public affairs consultant, before moving to an NGO working on climate and transport policies.
Yentyl Williams (IRD) is Director of Strategy, Caribbean Policy Research Institute; Tutor IP Law at the University of the West Indies and a PhD Researcher.
2011-2012 Scholars (Marie Skłodowska Curie promotion)
Sebastian Clark (IRD) is now Head of the Trade Policy Unit at the British Embassy in Beijing, PRC.
Emily Murrell (IRD) is Director for Climate Policy for the Institutional Investors Group of Climate Change.
Nicholas Todd (IRD) joined the UK Civil Service after graduation, including over four years at UKREP in Brussels. He recently completed a year at France’s Institut national du service public (formerly ENA), specialising in free movement law and international mobility.
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