Jon Worth

Jon Worth (born 23 May 1980 in Newport, Wales) is a political blogger, journalist, editor and a relatively early expert on EU affairs in the Internet who regularly writes about EU policy, Brexit and Germany policy.[1] Since 2015 he is a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe.

Jon Worth
Born (1980-05-23) 23 May 1980
Newport, Wales
OccupationBlogger
Editor
Journalist
NationalityWelsh
Alma materMerton College
GenreNon-Fiction
SubjectBrexit
European Union
Germany
Website
jonworth.eu

Jon Worth studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Merton College, University of Oxford where he obtained a BA grade, he also holds an MA in European Politics at the College of Europe, Bruges. Jon Worth's "Euroblog" started in 2005. It was ranked 3rd most influential left of centre blog in 2010 by Social Europe,[2] and among the 10 must read EU blogs by Fleishman Hillard.[3] Hill+Knowlton Strategies ranked him as the third most significant non parliamentary EU influencer on Twitter[4] and was in EurActiv's list of most influential Britons in EU policy.[5]

In his political work he was President of the NGO Young European Federalists Europe between 2003 and 2005. In British politics he was responsible for the online campaign for Harriet Harman's 2007 run to be Labour Party Deputy Leader[6] and also did online campaigning for Diane Abbott's Labour Leadership bid in 2010.[7] He was one of the founders of the Atheist Bus Campaign in 2008, the campaign having first been visualised in his blog entry "In your face atheism?".[8] In 2013, at the time of his move to Berlin, he quit the Labour Party and joined the German Greens[9] where he ran in the 2016 local elections[10]

He is a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges [11] where he has been teaching since the 2015–16 academic year. He teaches students in the politics department about online communications and the EU, and (together with Pierpaolo Settembri and Costanza Hermanin) runs the negotiation simulation.

As a UK citizen in Germany personally impacted by Brexit he has regularly appeared in the German media to talk about the topic, appearing on Deutsche Welle,[12] n-TV,[13] Deutschlandfunk,[14] Zeit Online[15] and Süddeutsche Zeitung.[16]

He is a member of the Europe Policy Group of World Economic Forum,[17] and a member of the Transparency International EU Advisory Group.[18]

References
  1. Bildung, Bundeszentrale für politische. "Jon Worth about his Euroblog - bpb". www.bpb.de.
  2. "The most Influential left-of-centre European Blogs: And the winner is..." 12 November 2010. Archived from the original on 23 August 2017. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  3. "Mapping the Euroblogosphere: what are the must-read EU political blogs? - FleishmanHillard in the European Union". 12 July 2010.
  4. "EU Leaderboard – Non-political Influencers - Hill+Knowlton Strategies". 14 November 2016.
  5. "Who are the 40 most influential Britons on EU policy?". 3 October 2012.
  6. see Iain Dale's Guide to Political Blogging in the UK 2007
  7. "Jon Worth".
  8. "In your face atheism? - Jon Worth Euroblog". 20 June 2008.
  9. "Why I'm leaving the Labour Party, and joining the Grüne in Germany - Jon Worth Euroblog". 14 November 2013.
  10. "Monika Herrmann soll Bürgermeisterin bleiben – starke Liste gewählt - Grüne Xhain". gruene-xhain.de.
  11. "Jon WORTH - College of Europe". www.coleurope.eu.
  12. "France and UK Vote: Hope for Europe? - All media content - DW - 15.06.2017". DW.COM.
  13. Nachrichtenfernsehen, n-tv. ""Großbritannien war immer das problematische EU-Mitglied"".
  14. "Nach dem Referendum in Großbritannien - Wie weiter in der EU?".
  15. Jacobs, Luisa (3 April 2016). "Brexit: Berlins Briten wollen bleiben" – via Die Zeit.
  16. ""Wir könnten zu Inselaffen werden"". 22 June 2016 – via Sueddeutsche.de.
  17. "Europe Policy Group New Concept for Europe Initiative" (PDF). www3.weforum.org. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  18. EU, Transparency International (1 December 2015). "Transparency International EU". Transparency International EU.
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