Anthony Teasdale


Anthony Teasdale, FAcSS, is Director General of the Directorate-General for Parliamentary Research Services in the permanent administration of the European Parliament - or the European Parliamentary Research Service as it is usually known - which serves members and committees as the in-house research centre and think tank of the Parliament.
Teasdale is also a Visiting Professor in Practice at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and co-author of The Penguin Companion to European Union.

Education

Teasdale studied at Balliol and Nuffield Colleges at Oxford University, where he earned first-class honours in PPE and a Master of Philosophy in Politics. He has also been a Research Fellow of Nuffield College and Lecturer in Politics at Magdalen College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Career

From February 1988 to November 1990, Teasdale was Special Adviser to Sir Geoffrey Howe, British Foreign Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister, witnessing the last three years of the government of Margaret Thatcher. He worked closely with Howe in writing his resignation speech in November 1990, leading to Mrs Thatcher's own resignation nine days later. He was also Special Adviser to Kenneth Clarke as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1996-97. Later, Teasdale served as head of policy strategy and legislative planning for the centre-right EPP Group in the European Parliament, and as deputy chief of staff to Jerzy Buzek MEP, the former Prime Minister of Poland when the latter was President of the European Parliament from 2009-12.

Publications

In addition to co-authoring The Penguin Companion to European Union, Teasdale has written articles on European and US politics in several academic journals, including Political Quarterly, Government and Opposition, Electoral Studies and the Journal of Common Market Studies. His most recent publications have been an LSE monograph on the European policy of French President Charles de Gaulle. and an article with David Willetts on Mrs Thatcher's European policy in the October 2018 edition of Prospect magazine.

Honours

Teasdale was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom in October 2016.