Martin Westlake
Martin Westlake is a British academic and author, and previously a civil servant. He was Secretary-General of the European Economic and Social Committee 2008-2013. Prior to that, he served as a Director of Consultative Works and as Head of Communications in the European Economic and Social Committee, which he joined in 2003.Biography
Martin Westlake had a lengthy career in various European institutions, including the European Commission, the Council of the European Union and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, before finishing his career as a civil servant at the European Economic and Social Committee.
He holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University, an MA in International Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a PhD at the European University Institute, Florence. He is a Visiting Professor in Practice at the European Institute of the London School of Economics, and is a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges.
He has published widely on the European institutions and on European and British politics. He is also the author of a major political biography.- Britain's Emerging Euro-Elite? The British in the Directly-Elected European Parliament, 1979–1992, Dartmouth Press, London, 1994
- The European Commission and the European Parliament: Partners and Rivals in the European Policy-Making Process, Butterworth, 1994
- A Modern Guide to the European Parliament, Pinter, London, 1994
- British Politics and European Elections 1994,, Macmillan, London, 1995
- The Council of the European Union, Cartermill International, London, 1995
- The European Union Beyond Amsterdam: New Concepts of European Integration, Routledge, London, 1998
- The Council of the European Union, John Harper Press, London, 1999
- Leaders of Transition, Macmillan, London, 2000
- British Politics and European Elections 1999,, Macmillan, London, 2000
- Kinnock The Biography, Little Brown, London, October 2001
- The Council of the European Union, John Harper Press, London, 2004
- British Politics and European Elections 2004, Palgrave, London, 2005
- The European Economic and Social Committee, John Harper Press, London, 2016
- Slipping Loose: The UK's Long Drift Away From the European Union, Agenda Press, Newcastle, 2020
- The European Union's New Foreign Policy, Palgrave, London, 2020
- Outside the EU: Options for Britain, Agenda Press, Newcastle, 2020
