Simon Dekeyrel is a Policy Analyst in the Sustainable Prosperity for Europe Programme at the European Policy Centre. He is currently finishing his PhD on the contemporary evolution of EU energy policy at the University of Nottingham, where he was part of the EU Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie research project “EU Trade and Investment Policy” (EUTIP). Simon was a Visiting Researcher at Ghent University, the Egmont Institute and the Energy Community Secretariat in Vienna. His primary research interests are EU internal and external energy and climate policy. He holds an MSc in International Relations and a BSc in Political Science from Ghent University.