Fiona Wishlade\u00a0is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Strathclyde. She has a Masters in French with European Governmental Institutions (University of Edinburgh) and an LLM in European Law (University of Strathclyde). Fiona is an internationally recognised expert in EU Competition and State aid policy, the EU budget, Cohesion Policy, and financial instruments for regional development. Over more than three decades at the European Policies Research Centre (EPRC), she served as Associate Director and later Co-Director, helping to establish the Centre as a leading source of research and policy advice for European institutions and national governments. She has led major comparative research and knowledge-exchange programmes, including the European Regional Policy Research Consortium, and has undertaken influential studies for the European Commission, European Parliament, European Investment Bank, and governments across Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":665,"template":"","group":[],"class_list":["post-664","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n