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KEYNOTES
Helen DRAKE
Helen Drake is Professor of French and European Studies and Director of the Institute for Diplomacy and International Governance at Loughborough University London. She is an internationally-acclaimed Professor of contemporary French politics and EU affairs, and from 2012-2018 chaired the UK’s leading University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES).
Since 2016, she has undertaken a series of high-profile research projects surrounding the UK's departure from the European Union, referred to most commonly as 'Brexit'.
Since 1st April 2017 (running to 30th September 2018), Helen Drake has led on an ESRC-funded, Brexit-related project entitled '28+ Perspectives on Brexit: a guide to the multi-stakeholder negotiations'.
Professor Drake is currently working on a monograph with Palgrave on France’s relationship with the European Union, as well as on a second edition of her 2011 book Contemporary France, also with Palgrave. Together with a team of scholars in the UK, France and the USA, Helen is leading the publication of cutting-edge research into contemporary France following the election of President Macron. (Palgrave, Developments in French Politics 6).
Richard DAVIS
Richard Davis is Professor of British history at the Université de Bordeaux-Montaigne. His research focuses on the cultural and political history of Franco-British relations in the 19th and 20th centuries. He has published widely in this field, with recent publications including ‘Schadenfreude and Anglo-French Relations in the 20th Century: Knocking Pauvre France, Building up Great Britain’ in The Foreignness of Foreigners: Cultural Representations of Otherness in Britain (17th-20th centuries) ed. Vanessa Alayrac and Claire Dubois (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015).
OLAF HENRICSON-BELL
Olaf Henricson-Bell is Head of Politics and Communication at the British Embassy in Paris.
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