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BIO: Liesbet Hooghe is the W.R Kenan Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence. She was born and educated in Belgium (KU Leuven), taught at the University of Toronto (1994-2000), and moved to Chapel Hill in 2000. Hooghe has had fellowships & visiting professorships at Cornell University; Nuffield, Oxford; the EUI, Florence; the WZB Berlin; VU Amsterdam; Konstanz University; Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst; Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona; IAS Vienna; Sciences Po-Paris; the Free University of Berlin; University of Amsterdam. She is a former chair of the European Politics & Society section of the APSA and a former Chair of the European Union Studies Association.

In 2017 Liesbet Hooghe received the APSA Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award. In 2023 she was awarded the Martha Derthick Award by the Federalism & Intergovernmental Relations Section of the American Political Science Association for her co-authored book ‘Multi-Level Governance and European Integration.’ In 2024 she was the recipient of two honorary doctorates for her work on multilevel governance: in January, from Maastricht University, and in May, from the University of Lausanne. In 2025 she received the EUSA Award for Lifetime Achievement in European Studies from the European Union Studies Association. Hooghe was PI of an advanced European Research Grant, Transnational – local triggers, social networks, and group identities (2021-2026), which seeks to explain political polarization in Europe and the US. The Transnational Lab is hosted at the RSCAS, EUI.

Hooghe’s research and teaching are chiefly in comparative politics, multilevel governance, international organization, political behavior, and measurement. She has published in the leading journals of political science. From 2010 to 2015, she was co-leading with Gary Marks an ERC-funded project on multilevel governance, summarized in four books published by Oxford University Press. To access data and publications, please click Regional authority (RAI), International authority (MIA), or Field of education (FIELD). Since 1999, Hooghe has also been a PI of the Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES) on political parties. 

CV (Oct 2026) || Google Scholar || hooghe@unc.edu || liesbet.hooghe@eui.eu

Liesbet will be teaching in Chapel Hill during the 2026-2027 academic year; she will be at the EUI from mid-May through mid-July 2027.

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Last updated: Oct 7, 2026