Catherine De Vries
Catherine De Vries is Dean for International Affairs and Professor of Political Science at Bocconi University. She is passionate about academic service and leadership. In addition, she cares deeply about political science research and teaching. She examines some of the key challenges facing the European continent today, such as Euroscepticism, political fragmentation, migration and corruption. Currently, she is working on research project (LOSS), funded through a Consolidator grant by the European Research Council, which examines the conditions under which economic hardship affects support for socially conservative political agendas.
Throughout her career, she has published several books in addition to a large set of research articles. Next to research, she regularly provides commentary in newspaper outlets and is a columnist for the Dutch Het Financieele Dagblad. She also serves as the scientific advisor for eupinions funded by the Bertelsmann Foundation, as a member of European Integration Committee of the Dutch Advisory Council on Foreign Affairs, and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. For her societal impact, she was selected a Young Global Leader in the World Economic Forum in 2013. In 2014, she was awarded the Emerging Scholar Award from the Elections, Voting Behavior and Public Opinion Section of the American Political Science Association, and in 2015, the Sophonisba Breckinridge Award for Best Paper in Women and Politics of the Midwest Political Science Association.