Maria Strömvik

Maria Strömvik is the director of the Centre for European Studies at Lund University (CFE), where she works to encourage cross-departmental and cross-faculty research and discussions on EU and Europe-related issues in various ways. She is also the editor of the blog Europakommentaren, where researchers from Swedish universities write about EU and Europe-related issues.

Maria has a background in several research fields related to politics and decision-making in international organizations, especially within the EU. Among other things, she has studied the forces behind the emergence and growth of the Union's foreign, security and defence policy, the EU's security-policy relations with the USA and NATO, and the Union's peace support operations. Maria currently also has a particular interest in the EU's effects on Swedish democracy and societal knowledge about the EU.

The lion's part of Maria's teaching and supervision takes place within the framework of the Master of European Affairs program.

For several periods, Maria has worked or had assignments outside the university. She worked for many years at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs on issues related to the EU's foreign, security and defence policy and the Lisbon Treaty. She has also been the Swedish government's investigator on Swedish society's participation in the EU and wrote the report EU på hemmaplan (SOU 2016:10).

Maria is also a board member of the Swedish Network for European Studies in Political Science and the Centre for Öresund Region Studies at Lund University. She has previously been a member of the Folke Bernadotte Academy's Advisory Board, the Sieps Advisory Board, and Carl Bildt's Strategic Council.