Anthony Teasdale

Anthony Teasdale is Director General of the Directorate-General for the Parliamentary Research Services in the permanent administration of the European Parliament - or the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) as it is usually known - which serves members and committees as the in-house research centre and think tank of the Parliament.^[1]

Teasdale is also a Visiting Senior Fellow at the European Institute of the London School of Economics (LSE) and co-author of The Penguin Companion to European Union (fourth edition, 2012).^[2][3][4]

Education

Teasdale attended Balliol and Nuffield Colleges at Oxford University, where he earned first-class honours in PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) 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.^[5]

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 Thatcher's own resignation nine days later. ^[6] He was also Special Adviser to Kenneth Clarke as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1996-97. Later, Teasdale served 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.^[7]

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