Michael Emerson is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels. He served as European Union Ambassador to Moscow from 1991 to 1996. His primary research interests focus on pan-European institutions, political economy of Wider Europe, European security policy, and EU relations with Russia, Ukraine and the Northern Dimension, Turkey, and Cyprus, while his secondary areas of research expertise include the economics of transition to a market economy, EU politics, enlargement of the EU, European Monetary Union, democratization in South Eastern Europe, EU relations with the Caucasus, and EU-US relations. He earned an MA from the University of Oxford and honorary doctorates from Kent University and Keele University.