Hubert, Agnes

Agnes Hubert is a recognised European expert on gender policy making. She was in charge of the EU gender equality policy in the nineties and continued to work on gender issues for the European Commission as a member of the in house think tank (currently EPSC). She is currently a professor at the College of Europe, affiliate researcher at Science Po -PRESAGE, founding member of the first European feminist think tank Gender5plus and member of the Haut Conseil de l’Egalité in France.
She graduated in Economics and in Political Science at the University of Paris and started her professional life as a journalist before joining the European Commission where she has held responsibilities in Development & cooperation (international commodity agreements), information & communication (information Europe – 1/3 world) and social & employment policy.
Agnes Hubert is the author of two books (L’Europe et les femmes, identités en mouvement”, ed. Apogée and “Democracy and Information Security in Europe”, in Forward Studies series – Kogan page) and of numerous articles and academic contributions in the field of gender equality and European integration. She has developed and taught seminars on “EU and Gender” at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy (Tufts University, Mass. USA) and at the Center for Political and Constitutional Studies in Madrid.