Antonio Salvador M. Alcazar III is a Doctoral Candidate in Political Science at Central European University and a Visiting Research Fellow at Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals. His work critiques the European Union’s pursuit of norms in global governance as a trade power. Through interpretive policy analysis and political ethnography, his PhD project attempts to reread the EU’s Generalised Scheme of Preferences as a transnational site of intervention in the global souths. As a UACES scholar, Antonio’s ongoing ethnographic research in Brussels has been awarded a postgraduate bursary for conducting 'essential fieldwork' in contemporary European Studies. His most recent writing has been published in Politics and Governance, and he is currently contributing to a special issue on ‘Disrupting European Studies’ by the Journal of Contemporary European Research.

At CEU, he served as teaching assistant for courses on the EU's Role in Global Governance (spring 2021) and Comparative Case Study Research (autumn 2020). He also joined a small research team to support the Horizon 2020 project: Realising Europe’s Soft Power in External Cooperation and Trade (winter 2020).

Outside academia, Antonio spent six years as EU outreach consultant for the European Commission's Support to European Business in Southeast Asian Markets (SEBSEAM) programme and as research and advocacy officer at the European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines in Manila.