Catherine E. De Vries
President of the Institute of European Policy Making @ Bocconi University
Vita
Catherine E. De Vries holds the Generali Endowed Chair in European Policies and is a Professor of Political Science at Bocconi University. She also serves as the President of the Institute of European Policy Making @ Bocconi University and co-chair Bocconi’s International Advisory Council. She received several academic distinctions and awards, including an Honorary Professorship at Queen’s University Belfast. In her academic work, she studies how international cooperation deals with key global challenges, such as governance, migration or climate, and interacts with domestic political constraints. Her work contributes to our understanding of the rise of populism and the far right, political polarization and fragmentation, public service provision and corruption. She has published extensively in academic journals and the popular press.