Pierre Defraigne currently serves as Executive Director for the Brussels-based think-tank the Madariaga - College of Europe Foundation.

From 1970-2005 he served as a European civil servant as Head of Cabinet for Etienne Davignon

Étienne Davignon

Étienne Francois Jacques Davignon, Viscount Davignon is a Belgian politician, businessman, and former vice-president of the European Commission.-Career:...

 (EU Commission Vice-President 1977-1983), Director for North-South Relations, Pascal Lamy

Pascal Lamy

Pascal Lamy is the Director-General of the World Trade Organization, a French political advisor, a businessman, and a former European Commissioner for Trade...

's (EU Commissioner for Trade 1999-2002) Head of Cabinet and Deputy Director-General at DG Trade, European Commission. From 2005-2008 Defraigne also established and managed the Brussels-branch of the Institut français des relations internationales

Institut français des relations internationales

L'Institut français des relations internationales is the main independent research and debate institution dedicated to international affairs, based in Paris, France....

 (IFRI).

Pierre Defraigne is also Professor of economics at the Institutes for European Studies (Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis

Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis

The Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis in Brussels, Belgium is a public university in the French Community of Belgium. Its official language is French...

 and Université Catholique de Louvain

Université catholique de Louvain

The Université catholique de Louvain, sometimes known, especially in Belgium, as UCL, is Belgium's largest French-speaking university. It is located in Louvain-la-Neuve and in Brussels...

) and at the College of Europe

College of Europe

The College of Europe is an independent university institute of postgraduate European studies with the main campus in Bruges, Belgium...

, Bruges, and is a Visiting Professor at Zhejiang University

Zhejiang University

Zhejiang University , sometimes referred to as Zheda, is a national university in China. Founded in 1897, Zhejiang University is one of China's oldest institutions of higher education...

, China.

Recent Publications

Only Europe, (Brussels: La Libre Belgique, 2009)

‘Bretton-Woods III needs a G3-Plus’, Madariaga Paper, Vol. 2, No. 7, (Dec., 2009)

‘La Chine forcera-t-elle l'UE à l'unité politique?’, Madariaga Paper, Vol. 2, No. 5, (Jul., 2009)

‘Seulement 176 millions d'Européens’, Madariaga Paper, Vol. 2, No. 4, (Jun., 2009)

‘La fausse piste de la Stratégie de Lisbonne’, Madariaga Paper, Vol. 2, No. 2, (May, 2009)

‘Barroso intergouvernementalisé!’, Madariaga Paper, Vol. 2, No. 3, (Mar., 2009)

‘Les à-coups de l'intergouvernemental’, Madariaga Paper, Vol. 1, No. 8, (Nov., 2008)

‘Le Parlement Européen sous le vent vivifiant de la crise’, Madariaga Paper, Vol. 1, No. 7, (Nov., 2008)

‘La Crise défera ou refera l'Europe’, Madariaga Paper, Vol. 1, No. 6, (Oct., 2008)

‘Leaping Beyond the Lisbon Treaty’, Madariaga Paper, Vol. 1, No. 5, (Oct., 2008)

‘Taking No for a Question’, Madariaga Paper, Vol. 1, No. 1, (Jun., 2008)