Edward Best (1958) is Head of Unit at the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA), Maastricht, and honorary Senior Fellow of Maastricht University. He specializes in European institutions and the political aspects of European integration as well as comparative regionalism and the management of regional organizations. He has been responsible for successive framework contracts to provide training services to the EU institutions on European governance, and has given regular courses in the European Commission and EU Agencies. He is the author of
EU Law-Making in Principle and Practice
(Routledge, 2014). He is co-editor of
The Institutions of the Enlarged European Union
(Edward Elgar, 2008) with Thomas Christiansen and Pierpaolo Settembri, and of
Rethinking the European Union: IGC 2000 and Beyond
(EIPA, 2000) with Mark Gray and Alexander Stubb, and has published numerous articles on the EU and institutional arrangements for regional integration.

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