Advisory Council

Laurie A. BUONANNO: Laurie currently holds the rank of Associate Professor of Political Science at SUNY Fredonia and serves as Executive Director of the Institute for European Union Studies at SUNY. She has been a director at the Transatlantic Consortium for European Union Studies and Simulations, a 27-member consortium of European and American universities, since 1999.

Laurie has authored many grants to support curriculum development, pedagogical innovation, and student/faculty scholarship and conferences, primarily in support of European Union studies. She has delivered lectures and presented papers on EU policies, European identity, and EU-US relations. She has published articles and book chapters on these subjects, as well.

She is currently co-authoring Policies and Policy Making in the European Union (Palgrave-Macmillan) and also leading a team-taught project under the auspices of the SUNY System Administration Cross-National Project in which three SUNY and two British faculties team-teach the European Union at their respective campuses.

Laurie received her Ph.D. degree from Johns Hopkins University. She graduated from University at Buffalo, SUNY, with an M.B.A. degree in International Business & Marketing, and a B.S. degree in Business Administration, Management of Information Systems.