Ruth Ferrero-Turrión
Ruth Ferrero-Turrión is Professor of Political Science and European Studies at the Complutense University of Madrid and Research Associate at the Complutense Institute for International Studies (ICEI-UCM). She has been the Carlos V European Research Prize 2019 by the European and Ibero-American Foundation of Yuste. She has worked in political advisory work at the Spain’s General State Administration, where she carried out functions related to migration policies and the European Union. She has also worked at the European Comission’s Directorate-General for the External Relations (RELEX). She has been Research Fellow at the Columbia University, the London School of Economics, the Babes-Bolyai University (Romania), the Hungarian Institute of International Relations and the Open Society Foundation of Sofia, as well as Non-Visegrad Fellow of the Institute of International Relations in Prague. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Univeristy of Leipzig and the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg. She has also been a Visiting Professor at the universities of Coimbra, Bochum, Florence, Warsaw and Toulouse Science Po. Her areas of specialization are European policy —with special attention to the neighborhood policy and EU enlargement— foreign policy and migration policies. She has participated in several national and international projects related to EU enlargement, national minorities, the rule of law, immigration policies and border control, as well as multiple congresses, workshops and seminars. She is a member of the advisory board of ICONs-Spain and part of the editorial boards of the magazines Política Exterior and Papeles de Europa. She is vice-president of the Mas Demo association. She is a regular contributor in several media outlets. Together with Ioannis Armakolas, she has been the academic coordinator of the IDEES magazine special issue “The Balkans at the crossroads”.
