Cover Page The handle http://hdl.handle.net/1887/31618 holds various files of this Leiden University dissertation. Author: Pan, Wen Title: Crises and opportunities : strengthened European Union economic governance after the 2008 financial crisis Issue Date: 2015-01-28 Curriculum Vitae Wen Pan was born on 5 June 1981 in Leshan, China. She went to China West Normal University in September 1999 after the national college entrance examination, and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in June 2003. After that, she became an English teacher at Kangding Nationality Teachers College, China, working there from July 2003 to August 2006. Among the main courses taught by her were Comprehensive English, American Literature and A General Survey of the UK and the USA. During her teaching in Kangding, she passed entrance exams for postgraduate studies, and continued with a master study at Sichuan University from September 2006 to July 2009 on the basis of a full scholarship, majoring in European Cultural Studies. When she graduated and got a Master of Arts degree in 2009, she was awarded a CSC (China Scholarship Council) grant by the Chinese government to pursue her PhD at Leiden University. She attended courses within the Political Science program and under the supervision of Prof. Madeleine O. Hosli, established a strong research interest in EU politics and economic governance. She published co-authored articles in Chinese, presented papers at international conferences and during her PhD studies at Leiden, was also an adjunct researcher at the Centre of European Studies (Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence) of Sichuan University, China. 631 632 Acknowledgements Pursing a PhD study abroad is quite a challenge, and I am glad that finally I have completed my dissertation. Taking this opportunity, I would like to express my heart-felt gratitude to all who have encouraged, supported and helped me during my doctoral journey. First of all, my sincere gratitude goes to my supervisor, Prof. Madeleine O. Hosli. Without her guidance and cultivation, the completion of this dissertation would have been impossible. My research idea originated from her book The Euro: A Concise Introduction to European Monetary Integration (2005) and the research design of this dissertation was finalized through various occasions of discussions and communication with Prof. Hosli. I am particularly indebted for her great patience and valuable instructions, and she has spent a large quantity of time on reading and revising my dissertation, from which I learned and improved my work. Besides, she encouraged and offered me opportunities to participate in various academic workshops, and I benefited a lot from those activities. I also thank Prof. Amy Verdun, Prof. Klaus Heine and Dr. Adam William Chalmers. Their suggestions and comments on my dissertation as well as my planned research for the future were constructive and valuable, and the discussions and interactions with these scholars have been a valuable experience and have become good memories for me. In particular, I am deeply grateful for the advice of Prof. Amy Verdun on the details of my arguments and presentation, which is very valuable for improving the quality of my work and helpful for my research in the future. I am also grateful to Dr. Adam William Chalmers for his instructions on how to prepare the defense. Valuable advice also came from Prof. Markus Haverland and Dr. Frans K.M. van Nispen. I would like to express my appreciation for their intriguing comments and further suggestions on my research. I really appreciate Dr. Frans K.M. van Nispen’s patience and time to discuss with me about my puzzles of EU studies, and thank his nice arrangement of a mock practice for me before the defense. My sincere thanks also go to Dr. Daniela Stockmann, whose booklist on qualitative and quantitative research was very helpful for me to engage in the case study methods I then used in my dissertation. 633 I am equally grateful to Prof. Jian Shi and Prof. Zhuyu Li of the Centre for European Studies at Sichuan University in China. They were my respected teachers during my master study at Sichuan University. It is because of their encouragement and guidance that I was able to successfully apply for Chinese government funding to go abroad to continue my PhD study. I would like to give my special thanks to the China Scholarship Council (CSC). My PhD research would not have been possible without the financial support provided by the CSC. Besides, I am also indebted to Prof. Feng Duan, Prof. Wen Ren and Prof. Xin Wang in the College of Foreign Languages and Cultures at Sichuan University, for their support for my further research. I would also like to cordially thank those who were or are travelling with me on the “journey” here at Leiden University: Arash Pourebrahimi, Ben Wei, Bing Lv, Bo Chen, Changjuan Geng, Chloe Finet, Dadi Chen, Guilin Cheng, Jiali Rui, Jing Shi, Lijing Yang, Moosa Elayah, Na An, Nanda Gel, Qiuye Hu, Rongfang Liu, Shengfa Miao, Tiantian Lin, Xiaohu Li, Xiaolei Liu, Xiaoli Lv, Xianqin Wei, Xinrong Ma, Yianfeng Bian, Zhao Zhou and Zheng Li — for valuable help, happy times and cherishable memories. I also owe a debt of gratitude to my friends in China: Deilian Wang, Jiaxin Pan, Jing Zeng, Jun Pang, Tianqin Yan, Xiaoxuan Yang, Yanmei Gao and Zheng Lu — for their care and ever-ready helping hands for me. Finally, I would like to thank all my family members — as I have been supported always by their deep love. My sincere thanks go to my boyfriend Jiaxing Chen, who has given me mental support and also helped me financially. His love and encouragement were indispensable for me to complete my PhD journey. 634