Areas of Expertise

EU justice and home affairs
Western Balkans
Organized crime
Strategic foresight

Short Bio

Mark McQuay has been an associate fellow at DGAP's Alfred von Oppenheim Center for the Future of Europe since July 2021. Previously, he worked as a trainee at the European Union Institute for Security Studies with a focus on EU justice and home affairs. He also completed an internship at the Polish Institute of International Affairs.

McQuay holds a bachelor’s degree in French, Spanish, and Slovene from the University of Nottingham, and he graduated from Collegium Civitas in Warsaw with an MA in international relations. He is currently a PhD candidate at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, examining relations between fledgling states and organized crime.