Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt


Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt is a Portuguese-German political scientist, the reform rector of the Bavarian School of Public Policy at the Technical University of Munich and the founding dean of the . She is known for her research on the delegation of power to international organizations, European integration, global economic governance, two-level games theory, international negotiation analysis, as well as power and accountability in global governance.

Education

Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt studied European Studies and graduated from the Technical University of Lisbon and the Free University of Berlin. She received her PhD in Political Science from the Free University of Berlin in 2002 and completed her Habilitation at the Humboldt-University of Berlin in 2009.

Academic career

Between 2003 and 2008, da Conceição-Heldt was a research assistant for comparative analysis of political systems at the Institute for Social and Political Science at the Humboldt-University of Berlin. In the academic year 2007/2008 she was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence. After a guest fellowship at the Center for European Studies at Carleton University, she was a guest professor for comparative politics at the Heinrich Heine University Institute of Social Sciences in Düsseldorf and for international relations and European integration at the Free University of Berlin. Between 2011 and 2012, she was a Heisenberg Fellow at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, working under the supervision of Michael Zürn. In 2012, she became professor of international politics at the Technical University of Dresden. Between September and December 2015, she was a visiting Fulbright fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University.
In July 2016, da Conceição-Heldt assumed the position of reform rector of the Bavarian School of Public Policy at the Technical University of Munich and the . Since January 2017, she has been the founding dean of the .
In 2013, da Conceição-Heldt received a European Research Council grant and is conducting research on the . As the principal investigator of a research team, she is developing a theory of how international organizations get empowered over time, integrating a temporal dimension in to the principal-agent approach.
She is the author of over 20 peer-reviewed journal articles, several book chapters and four monographs. She was also the editor of several special issues for peer-reviewed. Her research has been published in many different journals such as Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, Negotiation Journal, International Negotiations, International Politics, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Global Society, Global Policy, Cooperation and Conflict and Politische Vierteljahresschrift.

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