Sofia Wickberg

Sofia Wickberg joined the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam in August 2021. She previously taught at Sciences Po (Paris and Reims) and at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. 

She is associated with Sciences Po’s Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics and the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies. She is a founding member of the Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Network and regularly collaborates with the OECD, the Open Government Partnership, the European Commission, the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre and Transparency International. 

Her research focuses on the politics of anticorruption and public integrity and the definition of corruption as a public problem in Western Europe. She is currently working on the development of new methods for evaluating policy interventions in this policy domain. She is also studying the transnationalisation of policymaking and its effects on classical concepts and theories of policymaking, with a particular interest in the construction of global and European public problems. Sofia’s research and teaching also looks at the role of ideas (in general) and science and expertise (in particular) on policymaking at the national, international and transnational levels.

"Global instruments, local practices. Understanding the ‘divergent convergence’ of anti-corruption policy in Europe", defended on 2 July 2020.

Jury members: Mr Patrick Hassenteufel, University Professor of Political Science, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (rapporteur), Mr Colin Hay, University Professor of Political Science, Sciences Po Paris (supervisor), Mr Eric Phélippeau, University Professor of Political Science, University of Paris-Nanterre (rapporteur), Mr Bo Rothstein, Professor of Statistics, Göteborgs universitet, Mrs Diane Stone, Dean and Professor of Political Science, Central European University, Mrs Cornelia Woll, Full Professor of Political Science, Sciences Po, Paris.