Ottavio Quirico is researcher at the European University Institute, Perugia University for Foreigners, UNE Law School, ANU Centre for European Studies and University of Paraiba Centre for Transnational Relations. He has been, inter alia, a Marie Curie Fellow at Université Panthéon-Assas and has acted as a consultant to the United Nations. He specialises in the fields of international and EU law and policy and has been lead and key investigator in several EU-funded research and teaching projects in these areas.