Editorial Team
Prof. Jacint Jordana
EU – VALUES Network Coordinator / Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI)
Jacint Jordana is Professor of Political Science and Administration at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and ICREA Academia researcher. From 2004 to 2024 he directed the IBEI. Currently, he is the president.
He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Barcelona City Council, Associate Researcher at the Sciences Po Center of European Studies and Comparative Politics, as well as member of the Board of Trustees of the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB).
His main area of research focuses on the analysis of comparative public policies from a multilevel perspective, with special attention to regulatory policies and their specialized institutions. His recent publications include the books Policy Analysis in Spain (Policy Press, 2022), jointly edited with Laura Chaqués-Bonafont, Linguistic Claims and Political Conflicts (Routledge, 2021), together with Andrea Bianculli and Mónica Ferrín, and Barcelona, Madrid y el Estado (Catarata, 2019).
He was also the academic coordinator of the European project GLOBE (Horizon 2020), oriented to the study of emerging trends and scenarios in global governance and the role of the European Union.
Dr. Adam Holesch
EU – VALUES Network Manager / Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI)
Adam Holesch is the Network Manager of the EU Research and Education Network on Foreign Policy Issues: Values and Democracy (EU-VALUES). In his research, he analyses European politics by going up and down the ladder of multi-level governance, focusing on democratic backsliding, regionalism and global governance.
He was visiting scholar at the European University Institute (EUI) in Fiesole, Central European University (CEU) in Budapest/Vienna, and the Queens University in Kingston/Canada.
He has published, among others, in the journals West European Politics; Journal of European Integration; Territory, Politics and Governance; Acta Politica; East European Politics and Global Governance.
Prof. Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann
Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann is Associate Professor at the Institute of International Relations, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. She was a Visiting Professor at the Free University of Berlin (2012-2015), University of Erfurt (2010-2012) and London School of Economics (2008-2010). Research and publish on legitimacy and democracy in international politics, international organizations, and regional integration in Latin America and Europe, among others.
Her latest publications include: Climate Change in Regional Perspective: European Union and Latin American Initiatives, Challenges, and Solutions. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland (co-edited with P.Sandrin and Y.Doukas); and "Mercosur at 30: political ideologies and (de) legitimation strategies." International Affairs 99.3 (2023): 1043-1061.
Prof. Marja-Liisa Öberg
Lund Unversity
Marja-Liisa Öberg is Associate Professor (docent) of EU law at Lund University and a Director of the Master in European Business Law programme. She holds a PhD from the European University Institute and LL.M degrees from the European University Institute and Utrecht University. Her research expertise lies in EU constitutional, internal market, external relations law whereas her particular research interest pertains to the borders and boundaries of EU integration in internal and external contexts as well as multidisciplinary aspects thereof.
Prof. Anne McNaughton
Australian National University
Anne McNaughton is a comparative lawyer who researches at the intersection of international and comparative law. She was appointed as Director of the ANU Centre for European Studies (ANUCES) in March 2020 (having been its Deputy Director since 2015). Supported by a DAAD scholarship, Anne completed her first LLM at the Eberhard-Karls University in Tübingen (Germany) in 1991, writing her thesis The incorporation of the territory of former East Germany into the European Union entirely in German.
Since becoming a full-time academic, Anne has been particularly interested in the complex issues associated with how global economic integration affects the local legal framework at various levels. Anne researches the concept of mutual recognition as developed in EU jurisprudence and its migration into international trade treaties and agreements. Building on this work, her current research examines the nature of legal transplants between new and emerging legal systems of international law.
Anne has conducted this research as a member of an Australian Research Grant Linkage project that examined the changing nature of the trade and business relationship between Australia and the European Union. She has also been a member of several research projects funded through the European Union’s Jean Monnet activities programme and is currently a research lead in a Jean Monnet network and Centre of Excellence based at the ANU Centre for European Studies.
Prof. Magnus Killander
University of Pretoria
Magnus Killander is professor of human rights law at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria and academic coordinator of the masters programme in human rights and democratisation in Africa which forms part of the Global Campus of Human Rights. He is the Executive Secretary of the Association of Human Rights Institutes, an organisation that brings together around 80 university-based human rights institutes across the globe. He was the coordinator for the Centre for Human Rights for Fostering Human Rights Among European Policies (FRAME), a large-scale, collaborative research project funded under the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) (2013-2017). His research interests include human and sentient rights; relationship between international and domestic law; and international solidarity.
Prof. Jan Erk
Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
Jan Galip Erk is an Associate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
His expertise covers a broad array of areas of high interest to our cluster, including comparative law, governance, public policy and conflict resolution. A few highlights among his affiliations include Bilkent University, Cambridge University, the University of the Western Cape and Leiden University. Professor Erk has also served as member of the editorial boards for such refereed journals as Ethnopolitics, Regional and Federal Studies, and the Law and Development Review; as well as member of the advisory boards of Publius: the Journal of Federalism and the Canadian Journal of Political Science.
Dr. Axel Marx
KU Leuven
Axel Marx is Deputy Director Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven. He has managed over 50 funded research projects and acted as a consultant to several national and international organizations including the European Parliament, the European Commission, the Committee of the Regions, International Labour Organization, International Trade Centre, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, United Nations Forum on Sustainability Standards, UNCTAD, OECD, IDEA, Worldbank, the Belgian, Dutch and German Governments and several private actors. He is currently co-chair of the Academic Advisory Council of the United Nations Forum on Sustainability Standards, a member of the Evidensia Research Council and a member of the steering committee of the ILO Labour Provisions in Trade Agreements Hub.