Erik Jones is a nonresident scholar at Carnegie Europe, where his work focuses on European and international political economy. He is also the director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute.

Between 2002 and 2023, Jones was a professor of European Studies and International Political Economy at the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. He is the author of The Year the European Crisis Ended (2014) and Weary Policeman: American Power in an Age of Austerity (2012, with Dana H. Allin) among other books. Jones has edited or co-edited more than thirty books and special issues of journals on topics related to European politics and political economy. His commentary has appeared in the Financial Times, the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, and other major newspapers and magazines across Europe and North America.