Amelia Hadfield is a Professor in European Affairs at VUB, and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for European Studies (IES/VUB), having joined in September 2010. She co-directs the EuroMaster programme, and heads up the Education Development Unit of the IES, overseeing all teaching, training and blended learning activities offered by the IES. She teaches Public Policy Analysis at the VUB, and a range of European courses at the IES, including European foreign policy and European public policy. In addition, she regularly guest lectures on topics including energy security, foreign policy analysis and International Relations Theory. Amelia's special area of interest is EU Foreign Policy that pertain to neighbourhood security, energy security, and development, with a special focus on EU-Russia energy relations, the EU’s Neighborhood, sub-Saharan Africa and the Arctic.

Prior to joining VUB/IES in September 2010, Amelia served as Lecturer in European International Relations in the School of Politics and International Relations, at the University of Kent, Canterbury, teaching courses on EU foreign policy, EU public policy and Foreign Policy Analysis. At Kent she directed the MA in International Relations and European Studies and coordinated Erasmus and bilateral links between Kent and France, Finland and Belgium. She is also  Founder and Director of the Energy Analysis Group (EAG), which brings together researchers and policymakers on key aspects of EU energy security in a variety of scholastic and practical formats.

Based at the University of Kent Brussels for her doctoral studies on foreign policy, where she undertook both graduate teaching and several years of work at the Energy Charter Secretariat. Amelia is an Associate Fellow with Chatham House’s Energy, Environment and Development Programme (EEDP), and the Pan-European Institute (Finland). She also teaches courses on EU foreign policy at the University of Cambridge Summer School and Sciences Po Lille. She actively promotes European studies, and was UACES Secretary for 2008-11.