Dr. Valentin Kreilinger is a Political Scientist, specialising in EU Politics and Institutions. His main research interests are the evolution of the EU’s political system, reform and enlargement of the EU, security and defence, differentiated integration, EU economic governance, and the role of national parliaments in the EU. He also publishes on German EU policies and covers Franco-German relations.
Before becoming a Senior Researcher at the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS) in 2021, Valentin was a Research Fellow and Policy Fellow at the Jacques Delors network of think-tanks in Paris and Berlin from 2011 to 2020. In these roles, he was seconded to Berlin in 2013/2014 to help set up the Jacques Delors Institut Berlin, now the Jacques Delors Centre of the Hertie School. He is a non-resident Visiting Fellow of the Centre for Parliamentary Studies at LUISS University in Rome.
Valentin holds a PhD in Political Science from the Hertie School in Berlin. His dissertation focused on the role of national parliaments in EU economic governance. Valentin also holds an MSc in Politics and Government in the European Union from the London School of Economics. Previously, he studied at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and the Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle. During his studies, he worked at the Center for Applied Policy Research and the German Historical Institute. Valentin is an alumnus of the Max Weber Programm Bayern of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.