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Cornelia Woll

President of the Hertie School Berlin, Professor of International Political Economy Co-director of LIEPP from 2011 to 2015

Research Interest(s): Europeanization, Economic policies (taxation, finance), Voting and public policies

Discipline(s): Political Science

Biography

Cornelia Woll is currently President of the Hertie School Berlin.

She founded and directed LIEPP from 2011 to 2015 along with Etienne Wasmer. She was also professor of political science and a researcher at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics at Sciences Po before joining the Hertie School.

Her research focuses on the international political economy and comparative politics, in particular regulatory issues in the European Union and the United States. A specialist on business-government relations, she has published books on bank bailouts in the recent financial crisis and on service trade liberalization (both with Cornell University Press, 2014 and 2008). Other work has examined economic patriotism, trade and industrial policies, Europeanization and employers'' organizations.

She has served as Vice President for Studies and Academic Affairs (2015-18) and as Associate Dean for Research (2008-12) of Sciences Po. She was also the founding co-director of the Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies (MaxPo)