Magdalena Frennhoff Larsén

Dr Magdalena Frennhoff Larsén is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Politics and International Relations at the University of Westminster. She teaches EU studies at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and her research interests are in the areas of EU governance and external relations, and in international negotiations. She has produced articles on these topics for leading journals, including Comparative European Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, Policy and Politics, and International Negotiation, and she recently published a book on The EU in International Negotiations (Palgrave).

For her PhD from the University of Westminster she analysed EU-South Africa trade negotiations. She obtained her Bachelor of Social Sciences from the University of Lund, and for her Master of Social Sciences, she studied at the University of Bologna and the University of California, Irvine.

Prior to joining the University of Westminster, Magdalena worked as Development Director for the Institutor for Citizenship and as Public Affairs Officer for the UK Office of the European Parliament.