Dr Rémy Davison was awarded the Jean Monnet Chair in Politics & Economics by the EU Commission in 2012. He was previously Acting Director, and Associate Director, of the Monash European and EU Centre (MEEUC), Monash University. He is a foundation member and former Vice-President of the European Studies Association of Australia & New Zealand (ESAANZ).
Dr Davison was Australia’s first PhD graduate in EU studies and was one of the founders of the EU studies discipline in Australia. He has taught EU integration for over 30 years and is the recipient of four teaching excellence awards. He has also directed numerous Honours, Masters and PhD theses, with one Honours graduate receiving the Jean Monnet Thesis Prize, while another graduate under his supervision was awarded the prestigious Clarendon Scholarship at Oxford University for a M.Phil and D.Phil. (2016– 2021). He currently lectures in international political economy, foreign policy and in the Executive MBA for Monash Business School.
In recognition of his EU expertise, the United Nations appointed him a Global Expert in 2010. In 2017, he was accorded an entry in Who’s Who in Australia. He is widely acknowledged as the foremost expert on the European Union in Australia.
He is also currently Principal Chief Investigator, Building a Secure and Prosperous Asia (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 2021-22). With Professor Pascaline Winand, he was a successful co-applicant for EU Centre grants for the Monash European and EU Centre (MEEUC) (2010–14), and (with Professor Winand) the Jean Monnet Asia-Pacific Network (2010–13). He was Visiting Professor at the European University Institute (2015), the White Rose Centre for East Asian Studies (University of Leeds, 2008), and the Centre for European Studies, Australian National University (2008–10). He was a Foundation Honorary Research Fellow at the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, CERC, University of Melbourne (1997-2009).
In 2018, he keynoted the Beijing meeting of the Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat, the international organisation formed by the Governments of China, Japan and the Republic of Korea to form a trilateral free trade agreement. On Europe Day, 2008, he delivered the annual Robert Schuman Lecture at the Australian National University, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Rome Treaties.
He is the author, co-author or editor of six books, including The Political Economy of Single Market Europe (2011), Foreign Policies of the Great and Emerging Powers (2008) and The New Global Politics of the Asia-Pacific: Conflict and Cooperation in the Asian Century (3 editions, 2004–2018) , as well as numerous chapters and articles on EU integration, international trade and foreign policy. He covered the Eurozone crisis for The Conversation throughout 2011–2015, reaching 500,000 readers. He is highly sought-after by international media, appearing in Bloomberg, Fortune, BBC News, Voice of America, Courrier International (Le Monde group), the 21st-Century Business Herald (China’s largest-circulation business daily), the Australian Financial Review, Business Review Weekly, The Bulletin, The Huffington Post, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian and ABC TV and radio. He regularly consults to industry. He is also frequently called to give expert evidence and advice to both governments, diplomats and international organisations, including the Australian Government’s Inquiries into the EU-Australia Free Trade Agreement (FTA), Australia-UK trade and investment relations, and Australia’s Innovation System.
Dr Rémy Davison | Principal Chief Investigator
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