Thomas Roe is a
full-time official of the European Union, working on Europe’s external
relations worldwide since 1980. He is an Asia expert and now Adviser to the
Asia Directorate of the European External Action Service in Brussels. Roe is
also a Visiting Professor teaching on the European Union, European Single
Market, Globalization, and on Development Policy at universities in Europe,
Asia and the USA.
Roe’s previous
EU official roles include being the EU Fellow 2010-2011 at the Lee Kuan Yew
School of Public Policy Singapore, the ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting) Counsellor
and Coordinator 2002-2004 and 2008-2010, Head of the EU Delegation in Hong Kong
and Macao based in Hong Kong
2004-2008, Desk Officer for Indonesia and East Timor 2001-2002, EU Fellow and
Visiting Professor in Globalization Studies at George Mason University USA
Washington DC 2000-2001, Head of the European Community Investment Partners
scheme for promoting European direct investment throughout the developing world
1992-1999, Head of the EC Food and Emergency Aid worldwide mobilization and
delivery service 1989-1992, Desk Officer for Southern Africa especially Zambia
and Malawi 1984-1988, EC aid Co-financing Coordinator worldwide 1982-1983, and
Deputy Head of the Contracts, Accounting and Payments Unit of the European
Development Fund 1980-1982.
Thomas Roe’s
present research, teaching and writing interests are the European Union, global
governance, regional integration, and nationality and identity. He has taught
as Visiting Professor at the London Business School, the Open University UK,
George Mason University USA, Hong Kong University, the Lee Kuan Yew School of
Public Policy Singapore and is now a Visiting Practitioner Fellow at the Europe
Centre of Aston University UK and a Visiting Scholar (Maitre d’Enseignement) at
the Institute for European Studies at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
Roe has two
Bachelors degrees with First Class Honours in Economics (University College
London) and in Post-Colonial Studies (Open University UK) as well as two
Masters degrees - an MBA (London Business School) and a research Masters degree
with high distinction from (Open University UK) - thesis topic “Tropes of
Individual and National Identity in V.S. Naipaul’s Fiction”. Roe was Kennedy
Scholar 1973-74 in international economics at the Kennedy School of Government
at Harvard University, and visiting scholar at Hautes Etudes Commerciales
France 1978 and New York University Stern Business School 1979. Thomas Roe was
born in London and before joining the European Union was an international
banker in London, Paris, Bahrain and Dubai 1974-77 with Lloyds Bank
International and a management consultant with McKinsey & Company
1979-1980.
Email: Andrew-thomas.roe@eeas.europa.eu
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