Uta Staiger is Executive Director of the UCL European Institute, an interfaculty hub at University College London dedicated to promoting research on Europe and serving as a liaison to policy-makers and civil society. Her own research focuses on European, particularly 20th-century German cultural and political thought, and on the history of European integration. Uta holds an MPhil and PhD from the University of Cambridge, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.