<p>James Moran is an Associate Senior Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels. He has extensive experience in the middle east and North Africa: He was formerly the  Principal Advisor on the Middle East and North Africa at the EU’s European External Action Service. He was Ambassador and Head of the European Union Delegation in the Arab Republic of Egypt from February 2012 to September 2016, EU Ambassador to Jordan and Yemen in 1999-2002 and was the EU's senior coordinator in Libya during the 2011 revolution.<br /> <br />Between 2002 and 2011, after heading the China division in Brussels he was the EU's Asia Director from 2006-2011, and was the chief negotiator for a number of EU partnership agreements with China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Earlier experience in the 1980's and 90's included service with the EU Delegations in Jamaica and Ethiopia and various assignments in Brussels. Prior to joining the EU in 1983 he worked for the UK government and private sector in London. A UK national, he attended Keele, Harvard and London Universities.</p>