Carsten Gerards, M.A.

Carsten Gerards is Personal Assistant to the Rector of the College of Europe in Bruges (BE). At the same time, he is pursuing a PhD on the external dimensions of EU education policy at Leiden University (NL).

Between April 2015 and September 2017, he worked as a teaching assistant/tutor at the Jean Monnet Chair of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wessels (later, the Cologne Center for Comparative Politics) and is – until today – involved in several projects/publications of the Centre for Turkey and European Union Studies (CETEUS).

Carsten Gerards studied Social Sciences, Philosophy and Mathematics (“First State Examination”) at the University of Cologne and completed a postgraduate diploma (Master of Arts) at the College of Europe in Natolin (PL). He spent his Erasmus semester at the University of Warwick (UK).

More information, i.a. on publications, can be found on the websites of the College of Europe and Leiden University.