Director

Álvaro de Vasconcelos

who is Portuguese, became Director of the Institute on 1 May 2007.
Born in Porto, Portugal, in 1944, he headed the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (IEEI), of which he is a co-founder, from 1981 to 2007.
Over the past ten years, he has been much involved in the coordination of EuroMeSCo, the 50-member strong Euro-Mediterranean network of foreign and security policy research centres which constitutes a confidence-building measure and provider of expertise in the first chapter of the Barcelona Process.
As well as being a regular columnist in the Portuguese and international press, he is author and co-editor of many books, articles and reports, notably in the areas of the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and on the theme of world order, such as Portugal: A European Story, La PESC: Ouvrir l''Europe au Monde, The European Union, Mercosul and the New World Order, and A European Strategy for the Mediterranean.
List of publications
Álvaro de Vasconcelos is a Chevalier of the Order of the Légion d’Honneur (France) and a Comendador do Ordem do Rio Branco (Brazil). He is married to Maria do Rosário de Moraes Vaz, Director of Programmes at the IEEI, Lisbon. They have three daughters.

Tel :       + 33 (0)1 56 89 19 40
E-mail : Alvaro.Vasconcelos@iss.europa.eu