Nicholas Whyte has been the head of Independent Diplomat’s Brussels office since January 2007. He was previously the Europe Program Director of the International Crisis Group, managing the organisation’s research and advocacy on the Balkans, South Caucasus, Moldova and Cyprus, and has also worked for the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia.

Nicholas is originally from Northern Ireland, where he participated in the peace process in the mid-1990s as the central election campaigns manager for the cross-community Alliance Party. He holds a doctorate from the Queen’s University of Belfast, where he is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work. He is also on the International Advisory Board of the South-East Europe Research Centre in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Nicholas Whyte is available for press interviews and background briefings, in English, French or German, on a variety of matters, including the Western Balkans (particularly Kosovo, Macedonia, Croatia, and Serbia), Cyprus, the European Union (especially its developing foreign policy competences), the southern Caucasus, Moldova, Northern Ireland and democratisation. Contact him directly at +32 2 230 0650 or +32 485 555 944.