Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly

Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly is a Professor of Public Policy at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, where he is Jean Monnet Chair in European Urban and Border Region Policy and Director of the European Union Center of Excellence. He studied Law and Political Science at Paris IV- Sorbonne and for a Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He has taught at the University of Notre Dame (US), Xiamen (China), Grenoble and Lille (France), Mons/Louvain (Belgium), Lund (Sweden), Iceland (Iceland). He is the chief editor of the Journal of Borderland Studies (Taylor and Francis / Routledge) and of the Canadian American Public Policy series (Universities of Maine, USA & Victoria, BC, Canada.

The author of about 90 articles and chapters, and 8 books and special issues of scholarly journals in urban and border studies, his most recent publication includes an Encyclopaedia of Border Disputes (2015).

Currently, he is the research ‘lead’ (principal investigator) for Borders In Globalization a research program funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2013-19) that brings together 30 university research centres in 20 countries, and has hired nearly 100 students to do research on borders.