SIMONE BUNSE is Assistant Professor at the INCAE Business School, Costa Rica. She holds a DPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford, UK and is a former visiting researcher at the Free University of Brussels. Her work focuses on institutions and leadership in the EU. She has published on the 2003 Greek Council Presidency and co-published with Paul Magnette and Kalypso NicolaIdis on Power Politics in the Convention in Leadership in the Big Bangs of European Integration.