Tânia Felício is a Project Researcher at the Comparative Regional Integration Studies Programme of the United Nations University (UNU-CRIS) in Bruges since 2003. She has also worked as consultant for the UN Secretariat (UN Department of Political Affairs) in 2005 and 2006, and had previous experiences in the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the United Nations Documentation Centre in Lisbon, as a trainee.

Tânia Felício holds an M.A. in Political European Studies from the College of Europe, an M.A. in International Relations and a Postgraduate degree in International Economics. Both from the Technical University of Lisbon (UTL). She is also a Ph.D. Candidate in International Relations at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel under the supervision of Gustaaf Geeraerts, and the United Nations University, under the co-supervision of Luk Van Langenhove.

Her research interests include: regional integration, security studies, external relations of the EU, CFSP, regional and global security. She is the co-author of Regional Security and Global Governance. A Study of Interaction between Regional Agencies and the UN Security Council with a Proposal for a Regional Global Security Mechanism (2006, VUB Press). Her writings in the field of regional security and global governance have been published by the Chaillot Paper, Egmont Paper and the Human Security Journal. She is also the author of a book chapter in an edited book (published by Amsterdam University Press).

Contact:

Email:  TFELICIO (@) cris.unu.edu

Phone:  +32 50 47 12 05

Fax: +32 50 4713 09