Education: BA (Hons), University of Keele 1964; MA (Econs), University of Manchester 1965; PhD, University of Manchester 1970

Career: Jeremy Richardson is Professor and Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. He began his academic career as Assistant Lecturer in Politics at the University of Keele from 1966–69, then Lecturer in Politics from 1969–74, later Senior Lecturer in Politics from 1974–80 and then Reader in Politics from 1980–82. In 1982 he took up an appointment as Professor and Head of the Department of Politics at the University of Strathclyde until 1992. In that year he became Professor of European Integration and Director of the European Public Policy Institute at the University of Warwick until 1995. He was Professor of European Public Policy at the University of Essex from 1995–98 until his appointment as Nuffield Professor of Comparative European Government, Director of the Centre for European Politics, Economics and Society (CEPES) and Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford 1998–2002. From 2002–04 he was Senior Tutor and Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and since 2004 he has been Emeritus Fellow. His main research interests include policy making in the European Union, comparative public policy, and the policy change process. Jeremy Richardson is Founding Editor of the Journal of European Public Policy (see url below).

Honours and awards: Dr honoris causa, (University of Umeå, Sweden) 1995

Publications include: The Policy-Making Process 1969, Campaigning for the Environment (co-editor) 1974, Pressure Groups in Britain: A Reader 1974, Governing Under Pressure: The Policy Process in a Post-Parliamentary Democracy 1979, Policy Styles in Western Europe (editor) 1982, Policy Responses to Unemployment in Western Democracies (co-editor) 1984, Unemployment in the UK: Politics and Policies (co-author) 1985, British Politics and the Policy Process (co-author) 1987, Government & Pressure Groups in Britain (co-author) 1987, The Politics of Economic Crisis: Lessons from Western Europe (co-editor) 1989, Local Partnership and the Unemployment Crisis in Britain (co-author) 1989, Politics and Steel in Britain 1967–1988 (co-author) 1990, Privatisation and Deregulation in Canada and Britain (editor) 1990, Lobbying in the European Community (co-editor) 1993, Pressure Groups (Oxford Readings in Politics and Government) (editor) 1993, True Blues: The Politics of Conservative Party Membership (co-author) 1994, Networks for Water Policy: A Comparative Perspective (co-author) 1994, Managing Policy Change in Britain: The Politics of Water Policy (co-author) 1995, European Union: Power & Policy-Making (editor) 1996, Why Does Policy Change? Lessons from British Transport Policy 1945–99 (co-author) 2000, European Union: Power and Policy-making, (third edition; editor) 2005, Lobbying in the European Community (co-editor) 2006; numerous articles in professional journals

Contact details: Address: Nuffield College, Oxford, OX1 1NF, England; Tel: +44 (0)1865 278625; Fax: +44 (0)1865 278612; Email: jeremy.richardson@nuffield.ox.ac.uk ; Website: http://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13501763.asp/ .