Steven Everts

Dr Steven Everts has been working for 20 years on EU foreign policy, first as academic and analyst and now as EU diplomat. Steven Everts joined the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) as Director in September 2023.

Prior to joining the EUISS, Dr Everts was at the European External Action Service (EEAS) where he served as Senior Advisor to the HR/VP on Strategy and Communications.

Previously, he was a Senior Advisor in the Asia- Pacific Department of the EEAS, acting as the Alternate EU SOM for the ASEM process. He was Governor of the EU in the Board of the Asia Europe Foundation (ASEF) and Chair of the Board for 2019. 
Until Nov 2012, Steven Everts was a Member in the Cabinet of HR/VP Catherine Ashton with responsibility for Asia and the Pacific; Turkey; and the general issue of how to frame and strengthen the EU's relations with its Strategic Partners. Previously, he covered the EU's relations with the US, Canada and the UN. 
Between 2005 and 2009, Steven Everts worked for SG/HR Javier Solana, both as his Personal Representative for Energy and Foreign Policy and as a Member of his Cabinet. 
Before his time at the EU, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the London-based Centre for European Reform and Director of the CER's transatlantic programme, which covered the full range of US-European relations. 
Dr Steven Everts has been the author of numerous articles on EU issues in leading European and North American publications, including Survival, the World Policy Journal, Internationale Politik and the International Spectator. He has written many articles for the Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, die Süddeutsche Zeiting, Le Monde, and NRC/Handelsblad. 
He holds a D.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford University (St. Antony's College), where he also acted as Lecturer at Brasenose College, and an MA in Political Science from Leiden University in the Netherlands. 
In addition to his native Dutch, he speaks English, French and Italian.