Loukas Tsoukalis was born in Athens. He studied economics and international relations at the University of Manchester, the College of Europe in Bruges, and the University of Oxford where he obtained his doctoral degree and taught for many years. He later returned home as Professor of European Integration at the University of Athens and was subsequently elected as the first holder of the Eleftherios Venizelos Chair at the European Institute of the London School of Economics. He was also for long head of the economics department of the College of Europe in Bruges. He has held visiting professorships at the European University Institute in Florence, King’s College London, and the Kennedy School at Harvard University. He has advised former presidents of the European Commission and the European Council.

 He is now Professor at the Paris School of International Affairs (Sciences Po) and Emeritus Professor of the University of Athens. He is also President of the board of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Greece’s leading think tank.

Author of many articles and books translated into several European languages. In 2021, Oxford University Press published a Festschrift in his honour with contributions by leading personalities from academia and politics across Europe. His latest book Europe’s Coming of Age was published by Polity Press in 2023. He is an active European public intellectual.

He has received decorations from France, Greece, Japan and Spain, as well as many academic awards.