Fraser Cameron is a senior advisor at the European Policy Centre in Brussels, is a well-known policy analyst and commentator on EU affairs. He is also Director of the EU-Asia Centre and the EU-Russia Centre. He is a former British diplomat and senior EU official working on the external relations of the EU. He has served in numerous countries including the US and Germany. An advisor to the BBC and the UK Higher Educational Council on the EU he is the author of several books and articles on the EU. He is visiting professor at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and he was educated at the universities of St Andrews and Cambridge.