Biography

Having finished grammar school at an early age, I took up the challenge of exploring some of the wide-ranging interests that I have. I have completed degrees in Philosophy, Political Science and Italian, in Leiden and Paris. I have since focused my studies on European law and international economic relations, obtaining an LLM in European Law at Leiden and completing an MPhil in International Relations at Oxford, where my main focus has been the external economic relations of the European Union. For my PhD in Law I have looked at the progressive shaping of the Single European Market in the field of foreign direct investment. This relatively understudied area of the European economic constitution has a major bearing on the international regulation of FDI, both within the Union and in the relations of the European Union with third countries.