Christian Kaunert is a German-Irish-British political scientist and Jean Monnet professor specialised in European security.

Kaunert is professor of international security at Dublin City University[1] and professor of policing and security at the University of South Wales,[2] where he holds a Jean Monnet chair of EU counter-terrorism and directs a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence.

He is also the co-ordinator of a research-focused Jean Monnet Network of EU counter-terrorism, which brings together fourteen universities and research centres across Europe and its neighbourhood.

[12] At the end of 2012 he left for the University of Dundee in Scotland, where he established his first Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in 2013,[13] and was appointed professor in 2014.

Kaunert then moved back to continental Europe in 2016 as professor and academic director of the Institute for European Studies of Vrije Universiteit Brussel, until he returned to the UK as a professor and director of the International Centre for Policing & Security at the University of South Wales in 2018.