Professor Kevin Featherstone, AcSS


Eleftherios Venizelos Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies
Professor of European Politics

Kevin Featherstone

Kevin Featherstone is Eleftherios Venizelos Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies and Professor of European Politics. He has held visiting positions at the University of Minnesota; New York University; and Harvard University.

His main fields are: the politics of the European Union; ‘BREXIT’;  and the politics of contemporary Greece. He is the co-lead of the ‘LSE Programme on BREXIT’, with Tony Travers.

His book (co-authored with Kenneth Dyson), The Road to Maastricht: Negotiating EMU (OUP), was recognised by the European Parliament as one of the ‘100 Books to Remember’. He has published many other monographs: including The Politics of Europeanization; and, Prime Ministers in Greece: the Paradox of Power, both also with Oxford University Press.  In 2013, he was made ‘Commander: Order of the Phoenix’ by the President of Greece for his academic contributions.  He has published numerous journal articles and is a regular contributor to the international media.


Expertise: comparitive politics, public policy; political economy; politics of Brexit; politics of EU; Greek politics; European politics