About Olaf Cramme

Olaf is director of Policy Network and a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics' European Institute. He is also a member of the General Assembly of the Lisbon Council for Economic Competitiveness and Social Renewal, and co-founder and vice-chairman of Das Progressive Zentrum, a Berlin-based political thinktank. Previously, he was a lecturer in European politics at London Metropolitan University and worked as a parliamentary researcher at the Houses of Parliament. Olaf publishes widely on the future of the European Union and European social democracy, and is editor of Rescuing the European project: EU legitimacy, governance and security (Policy Network, 2009), and co-editor (with Patrick Diamond) of Social Justice in the Global Age (Polity Press, 2009). He can be contacted on ocramme@policy-network.net.