Olivier Costa

Olivier Costa is a CNRS-affiliated Senior Research Fellow at CEVIPOF-Sciences Po. He was awarded his PhD in 1998 by the Paris 8 University. His thesis focused on the workings of the European Parliament and was entitled   “The European Parliament: a Deliberative Assembly”. He then spent the following year at the Institute for European Studies in Brussels (Université Libre de Bruxelles). He joined the CNRS in 1999 and worked at the Emile Durkheim Centre at the Institut d’études politiques de Bordeaux. He joined CEVIPOF in January 2021.

He lectures on European Union institutions and policies, notably at the College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium).           He has also lectured at Sciences Po Paris, Sciences Po Bordeaux, Sciences Po Strasbourg, the Université           Libre de Bruxelles and the University of Geneva’s European Institute. He has been a visiting professor at Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto), Washington State University (Pullmann, WA), the University of Colorado       (Boulder, CO), the University of Cologne (the Theseus European Studies Chair) and at the Luiss University                 - Guido Carli (Rome).

He serves as an Executive Editor for the Journal of European Integration (Taylor&Francis) and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Legislative Studies (Taylor&Francis), of the RISP - Italian Political Science Review (Taylor&Francis), and of the International Journal of Parliamentary Studies (Brill).

He has nine books to his credit and has edited 20 collective works and special issues of a number of reviews.         He has published articles in the following reviews: Journal of European Public Policy, West European Politics,  Journal of European Integration, Journal of Legislative Studies, Representation, Journal of Common Market    Studies, Revue Française de Science Politique, Politique européenne, Revue internationale de politique     comparée, Pouvoirs, French Politics.

olivier.costa@sciencespo.fr