Gary Marks

Gary Marks
Born	7 June 1952 London, U.K.
Alma mater	Birmingham University University of California, Santa Barbara Stanford University
Occupation	Academic
Spouse(s)	Liesbet Hooghe

Gary Marks (born 7 June 1952 in London) is an English academic and an expert on the European Union. He is a research professor in Multilevel Governance at the VU University Amsterdam and Burton Craige Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He developed the concept of “multilevel governance.”

Gary Marks was born on 7 June 1952 in London, U.K. He completed a B.Soc.Sc. at Birmingham University in England and received his M.A. in political science from University of California, Santa Barbara in 1974. In 1982 he received his Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University. He was a student of Seymour Martin Lipset and Gabriel Almond.

Marks took up a tenure-track position at the University of Virginia in 1982. In 1986 Marks moved to UNC-Chapel Hill where he became Associate Professor in 1989, Full Professor in 1994 and Burton Craige Distinguished Professor in 2004. In 2004 Marks was appointed Chair in Multilevel Governance at the VU University Amsterdam.

Since 2000, Marks has accepted visiting professorships and fellowships in Spain, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, and France. He is recipient of an Advanced European Research Council Grant (2010–2015) for a research program titled “Causes and Consequences of Multilevel Governance”. In 2011, he was awarded the Humboldt Research Prize for his contributions to political science.

Marks has published nine books, several special issues and he has authored or co-authored many articles. From 1997 to 1999, Marks was the Chair of the European Union Studies Association. At the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill he was the founding Director of the Center for European Studies and the European Union Center for Excellence at UNC-CH, which he led from 1994 to 2006.

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