Tim Oliver is Senior Lecturer in the Institute for Diplomacy and International Governance at Loughborough University London. He has been a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence and an Associate of LSE IDEAS, the London School of Economics' foreign policy think tank. He has taught at the London School of Economics and University College London, been a researcher at institutions in Berlin and Washington, DC, and has worked at the House of Lords and the European Parliament. He is the author of Understanding Brexit: A Concise Introduction (2018).