RESUME
Professional ​
info​​
Name: Sharon Pardo
Date and place of birth: 17 February 1971, Haifa
Address and telephone number at work: Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University of Negev, P.O. Box 653, Beer-Sheva 8410501, Israel, +972-8-642-8396, pardos@bgu.ac.il
Address and telephone number at home: 28 Soutine Street, Flat 2, Tel Aviv, 6468420, Israel, +972-54-677-5504
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3886-3664
Work​
experience​
​2019
Visiting Professor (sabbatical leave – 6 months), Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies – Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, Canada
​2015 - present
Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
​
​2013 - 2014
Visiting Senior Lecturer (sabbatical leave), Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies – Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Canada
​
​2012 - 2015
Senior Lecturer (tenured), Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
​
​2011 - 2012
Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
​
​2008 - 2011
Lecturer, Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ​
​
​2004 - 2005
Post-Doctorate, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of
Politics and Government, Name of advisor: Prof. Joel Peters, Title of thesis:
“The Euro- Mediterranean Partnership: In Search for the New Euro- Mediterranean Region”
​
​2003 - 2004
Part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Ono Academic College
​
​2001 - 2003
Part-time Lecturer and Research Assistant, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium
​
​2001 - 2003
Part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, Mons University, Belgium
​
​
SHARON PARDO PH.D
BIO
Prof. Sharon Pardo (Ph.D., Ghent University, Faculty of Political and Social Studies)
is a Jean Monnet Chair ad personam in European Studies in the Department of
Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU). Pardo is a
Senior Researcher at The Simone Veil Research Centre for Contemporary European
Studies – The National Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at BGU, a Centre which he
chaired between the years 2005 to 2017. He is the co-editor of Europe and the World
book series by Lexington Books. Prof. Pardo served as the Chairperson of the
Department of Politics and Government at BGU between the years 2016-2018, and is
currently serving as a Senior Adjunct Fellow at the National Centre for Research on
Europe (NCRE), University of Canterbury, New Zealand, a Member of the Academic
Council of the European Association of Israel Studies (EAIS), a Member of the Board
of the Israel Council on Foreign Relations (ICFR) and of the Israeli Association of
International Studies (IAIS) and a Member of the Israel Bar Association. His research
interests focus on the legal and political dimensions of European Union foreign and
security policy. Prof. Pardo also has a significant interest in the development of the
Euro-Mediterranean region, in Israeli-European Union relations and in the Israeli-
Canadian relationship. He has published widely on these issues. Prof. Pardo teaches
courses on the European integration process, diplomacy and public international law.
Education
1993 - 1996
LL.B., with Honours - University of Sheffield, School of Law
1996 - 1997
LL.M., with Distinction- University of Sheffield, School of Law
Name of advisor: Prof. John G. Merrills
Title of thesis: “From Liberation Organisation to Statehood: A Juridical Analysis of the ‘State of Palestine’ under International Law”
​
1999 - 2003
​
Ph.D. - Ghent University, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
Name of advisor: Prof. Marc Cogen
Title of thesis: “The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership: From European Unilateralism to Regional Regime”