Renaud Dehousse

Renaud Dehousse is an academic and administrator specializing in European Union law and politics. Since 2016, he has served as President of the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. Prior to this, he was a Professor and holder of the Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law and European Policy Studies at Sciences Po, Paris, where he founded and directed the Centre d'études européennes (2005–2016) and chaired the executive board (2013–2016).

• Education: Law degree from the University of Liège (Belgium), PhD in Law from the European University Institute.
• Academic Roles: Full Professor at the University of Pisa (1998), visiting professorships at the Universities of Florence, Cologne, Rome (LUISS), Lausanne, and the University of Michigan Law School.
• Advisory Roles: Scientific advisor at Notre Europe (1999–2012), member of working parties on European institutional reform.

His research focuses on EU institutional design, democratic accountability, and soft governance mechanisms. He has published extensively on delegation of powers, comitology, and the evolution of the EU's constitutional framework.

Recent trends in his publications emphasize sectoral approaches to EU governance, the legitimacy of regulatory committees, and shifts toward flexible policy frameworks. Key themes include executive-legislative relations, institutional responsiveness, and the interplay between legal and political dynamics in EU reform.

• Scientific Honors: Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur.