Didier Georgakakis is a professor of political science at the Université Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne and a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. His current research focuses on the European civil service and the reconfigurations of the EU’s institutional and administrative fields since 1995. He has published and edited several books and journals, and his research has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals and in many edited volumes.