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The year 2012 has been an eventful one for the EUI. We have seen the departure of President José Borrell Fontelles, the appointment of Marise Cremona as President ad interim in June 2012, and the appointment in December of Joseph HH Weiler as President-elect, who will take up office in September 2013. These comings and goings have brought changes, certainly, but the Institute is used to handling the regular coming and going of members of its community and this is indeed one of its strengths as an institution, giving it vitality and the ability to respond to new challenges. This past year, in addition to the normal arrivals and departures, it has seen a number of developments. Some are positive: the creation of a new Chair, the expansion of the Robert Schuman Centre’s Global Governance Programme, the launch of the Migration Policy Centre, an initiative to support the integration of spouses and partners of EUI professors, a new and permanent home for the Historical Archives of the European Union. Some are disappointing: the loss of doctoral grants for researchers from Latin America, the southern Mediterranean and the Balkans, for example. Chairs and academic appointments In September 2012 Rainer Bauböck took office as the new Dean of Graduate Studies, taking over from former Dean Martin Van Gelderen who had stepped in following the tragic death of Peter Mair in August 2011. Professor Bauböck embarked on a review and consolidation – now completed – of the academic rules and regulations, including a revision of the Code of Ethics in Academic Research. A number of new professors arrived and new Chair appointments were made during 2012. Nehal Bhuta took up his appointment as Professor of Public International Law, coming to the EUI from the New School, New York; Hans-Peter Blossfeld joined the EUI as Professor of Sociology from Bamberg University; Fabio Canova joined us as professor of Econometrics, coming to the EUI from Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Laura Downs joined us from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales as Professor of Gender History; Diego Gambetta, our new Professor of Social Theory, is on leave from Nuffield College, University of Oxford; Hanspeter Kreisi from the University of Zurich took up the Stein Rokkan Chair of Comparative Politics; Lucy Riall, formerly Birkbeck College London, is our new Professor of Comparative History of Europe (19th and 20th Centuries); Ann Thomson joined us as Professor of European Intellectual History from the Université Paris 8 Vincennnes- Saint Denis. Within the Global Governance Programme at the Robert Schuman Centre of Advanced Studies, Anna Triandafyllidou became the Director of the Programme on Cultural Diversity in a Globalised World and Bernard Hoekman was appointed as Director of the Programme on Global Economics. Among the new Chair appointments in 2012 were Stefano Bartolini (currently Director of the Robert Schuman Centre of Advanced Studies) to the Peter Mair Chair in Comparative Politics; Alexander Etkind (University of Cambridge) to the new Mikhail Bakhtin Chair of Russia-Europe Relations; Regina Grafe (Northwestern) as Professor of Early Modern History of Europe; Stefan Grundmann (Humboldt University, Berlin) as Professor of Transnational Private Law; Pieter Judson (Swarthmore College) as Professor of 19th and 20th Century History; David Levine (Washington University, St Louis) as Professor of Microeconomics; Ramon Marimon (currently Director of the Max Weber Programme) as Professor of Macroeconomics; and Stephane Van Damme (Sciences-Po) as Professor of History of Science. As these appointments show, we continue to be able to attract scholars from a wide range of countries and universities, and of the highest calibre within each of our disciplines. The reputation and success of the Institute stands or falls on the quality of our professors and maintaining this quality is a crucial task. Apart from the specific effort made at the recruitment of each Chair, we have this year addressed two structural issues so as to help us attract the best possible faculty. In the first place the High Council has put
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PRESIDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT 2012