Will Bartlett

William Bartlett is Senior Research Fellow in the Political Economy of South East Europe at the LSE, and Honorary Professor at both the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Bristol. He has an MA in Economics from the University of Cambridge, an MSc from the University of London, and PhD from the University of Liverpool. He has been Lecturer in Economics at the Universities of Southampton, Bath, and Bristol, and Research Fellow at the European University Institute on Florence. His research interests lie in the field of economic development, social policy, and EU enlargement with a focus on South East Europe. His book “Europe’s Troubled Region: Economic Development, Institutional Reform, and Social Welfare in the Western Balkans” was published by Routledge in 2008. In addition to carrying out research projects for the ESRC, Leverhulme Trust, and the British Academy, he has acted as a consultant and senior advisor to the European Commission, European Parliament, European Training Foundation, World Bank, OECD, and other international organisations.