Profile

Robin Smail

Expert
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Fields of Specialisation:

Structural and cohesion policy; EU economy; innovation policy.



CV in English
Robin Smail (UK) joined EIPA in May 2003. He specialises in EU Regional Policy and the Structural Funds at EIPA, but also lectures in EU economy and innovation policy.
His last post was Associate Director with a Communications company, and before that he was Director of the Yorkshire & Humberside Regional Office, both based in Brussels. Robin has worked inside the European Commission as a national expert, while on secondment from the Scottish Enterprise, the economic development agency of Scotland.
He has research and teaching experience going back to 1980, after studying at the Universities of Aberdeen and Manchester, where he gained MA degrees in economics.