Michael Smith is Honorary Professor in European Politics in the Department of Politics and International Studies, Warwick University, UK, and Emeritus Professor of European Politics at Loughborough University. Previously, he was Professor of European Politics and Jean Monnet Chair at Loughborough University, where he also was Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of International Governance and of a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, and Professor in European Politics in the Department of Politics and International Studies, Warwick University. He has published extensively on EU external policies and on EU diplomacy, on the EU and world order, on EU-US relations and on EU-Asia relations. He is a past Chair of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies and the Standing Conference of Heads of European Studies, and in 2010 received the UACES award for Lifetime Achievement in European Studies. Among his major books are: The European Union's Roles in International Politics: Frameworks and Analysis (edited with Ole Elgström) (Routledge, 2006); The European Union and the United States: Competition and Convergence in the Global Arena (co-authored with Steven McGuire, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008); Perceptions and Policy in Transatlantic Relations; prospective views from the United States and Europe (coedited with Natividad Fernandez Sola, Routledge, 2009); The Diplomatic System of the European Union: Evolution, Change and Challenges (co-edited with Sophie Vanhoonacker and Stephan Keukeleire, Routledge, 2016); International Relations and the European Union (coedited with Christopher Hill and Sophie Vanhoonacker, Oxford University Press, fourth edition 2023; and The European Union's Strategic Partnerships: global diplomacy in a contested world (edited with Laura C. Ferreira-Pereira, Palgrave Macmillan 2021). Most recently, he has published a new edition of his 2008 co-authored book on the EU and the US: The EU and the United States: Competition, Convergence and Crisis in the Global Arena (co-authored with Terrence Guay and Jost Morgenstern-Pomorski), Bloomsbury Academic 2025. He has also edited special issues of the Journal of Common Market Studies and the Journal of European Public Policy as well as contributing articles to those and to a wide range of other leading journals.