On October 26th-31st, Professor de Largentaye participated in an intensive professional development program in Quebec, Canada (), focusing on the transatlantic relations of the EU. He gave four presentations during the program. One provided a wide-spectrum overview of the topic through the lens of the international competence of the EU. Two other of his presentations covered region-specific aspects, with one focusing on the EU-Mexico relations, and the other on EU-US relations in the perspective of the TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership). Finally, Professor de Largentaye participated in a roundtable on the relations between Europe and America with regard to their potentially conflicting integration models: "Les relations Europe-Amérique: vers le choc des modèles d'intégration?"

Professor de Largentaye has a forty-year experience as policy expert in the French government (Ministries of Economy and Finance, Agriculture, and Trade) and in European institutions (European Commission's Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, Directorate General for External Relations, and Minister Counselor to the Permanent Delegations of the European Commission and European Union to UNESCO and OECD). He recently joined the ��˾����Ƶ faculty to teach the Economics course (see profile).

The Academia Europaea’s aim is to promote learning, education and research, through workshops, conferences, meetings and the writing of special reports. Professor Harwich has been asigned to the “History and Archaeology Section”. Some of his historian colleagues in the Academia include Maurice Agulhon, Jean Delumeau, Emmanuel Leroy-Ladurie, Carlo Ginzburg, Sir John Elliott, Theodore Zeldin or Wolfgang Mommsen.