Cleo is currently Senior Research Fellow working on the EU-UK relations at the University of Warwick with Professor Hussein Kassim. Much of the research work she does is at the interface of research and policy. She recently finished a joint Royal Society of Edinburgh - University of Edinburgh project on 'Rethinking Policy Impact'. She is an associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has taught at Edinburgh University since January 2016. Edinburgh is where she currently lives and where she did her PhD on the European Commission’s response to the Global Financial Crisis 2008-2010. Before academia, she worked at European level for five and a half years, first as a political advisor in PES and then as a policy officer representing local and regional authorities at European level.