Anthony Teasdale biography
Anthony Teasdale was born in Windsor and educated at Balliol and Nuffield Colleges, Oxford University, where he took at a first in PPE and an M. Phil in Politics. He has since worked as a political adviser both in London and Brussels. He was Special Adviser at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and HM Treasury during the Thatcher and Major governments, and has worked in the secretariat of both the EU Council of Ministers and the European Parliament. From 2002-06, Anthony was Head of Policy Strategy and Legislative Planning for the EPP Group in the European Parliament, and director of its think tank, the European Ideas Network. From 2007 to 2009, he was Head of Political Strategy and Governing Bodies in the Office of the President of the European Parliament, and from 2007 to 2009, Deputy Chief of Staff to the President of the European Parliament. He is now Acting Director in DG Internal Policies of the Parliament's administration.
Anthony has also been Gwilym Gibbon research fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and Lecturer in Politics at Corpus Christi and Magdalen Colleges, Oxford. He is currently Senior Visiting Fellow at the European Institute of the London School of Economics, and Visiting Professor in Politics at the University of Buckingham. He writes and speaks widely on European political and institutional issues. He has published articles in Political Quarterly, Government and Opposition, Electoral Studies, and the Journal of Common Market Studies. He was co-author with Timothy Bainbridge of the first edition of the Penguin Companion to European Union (1995), a role he resumed for the fourth edition of the book .
