Roderick Parkes, M.Phil.

Roderick Parkes has been the Head of the Brussels Office of the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (German Institute for International and Security Affairs , SWP) since 2009. From 2005 until 2009 he was a researcher in the Research Division EU Integration. Between 2003 and 2005 he worked as a Media analyst at the Institute for Media Analysis in Bonn. In 2003 he worked at the Centre for the Study of European Integration, Bonn. He received his M.Phil. from Cambridge University in 2003. His areas of expertise include European Justice and Home Affairs Policies; asylum and immigration policies in the EU; British Politics and European Policy. Currently he is focusing on Immigration and Asylum Policy developments in the Stockholm Programme, EU Programme 2010‐2015 for Justice and Home Affairs. Roderick Parkes is the author of numerous publications on European migration policies with a special focus on the UK.