Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt

Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt (born 1970) 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 TUM School of Governance.[1][2][3] 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.

Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt (2016)

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 (2009), she was a guest professor for comparative politics at the Heinrich Heine University Institute of Social Sciences in Düsseldorf (2009/2010) and for international relations and European integration at the Free University of Berlin (2010/2011). 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.[4]

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 Chair of European and Global Governance. Since January 2017, she has been the founding dean of the TUM School of Governance.[5]

In 2013, da Conceição-Heldt received a European Research Council grant[6] and is conducting research on the delegation of power to international organizations and their institutional empowerment over time (DELPOWIO). 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.

Significant awards

Selected publications
  • 2017: Shaping Global Trade Governance Rules: New Powers’ Hard and Soft Strategies of Influence at the WTO, European Foreign Affairs Review (online).
  • 2017: Measuring the Empowerment of International Organizations: The Evolution of Financial and Staff Capabilities, Global Policy, (co-edited with Henning Schmidtke).
  • 2017: Regaining Control of Errant Agents? Agency Slack at the European Commission and the World Health Organization, Cooperation and Conflict (online).
  • 2016: O Futuro da União Europeia, Fundacão Francisco Manuel dos Santos.
  • 2016: Verantwortungszurechnung im EU-Mehrebenensystem während der Eurokrise: Wer kontrollierte die Troika-Institutionen?, Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, Sonderheft Gewaltenteilung und Demokratie in der EU 26(1): 115-129.
  • 2015: Internationale Organisationen: Autonomie, Politisierung, interorganisationale Beziehungen und Wandel, Nomos, Baden-Baden, ISBN 978-3-8487-0484-2 (co-edited with Martin Koch and Andrea Liese).
  • 2014: Speaking with a Single Voice: Internal Cohesiveness and External Effectiveness of the EU in Global Governance, Journal of European Public Policy 21(7): 961-979 (co-edited with Sophie Meunier).
  • 2013: The Clash of Negotiations: The Impact of Outside Options on Multilateral Trade Negotiations, International Negotiation Special Issue on Bilateral and Regional Economic Negotiations, 18(1), 111-130.
  • 2013: Do Agents “Run Amok”? Agency Slack in the EU and US Trade Policy in the Doha Round, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis 15(1): 21-36.
  • 2013: Two-Level Games and Trade Cooperation: What Do We Now Know?, International Politics 50(4): 579-599.
  • 2013: Emerging Powers in WTO Negotiations: The Domestic Sources of Trade Policy Preferences, The International Trade Journal Special Issue on the WTO, 27(5): 431-449.
  • 2011: Variation in EU Member States’ Preferences and the Commission's Discretion in the Doha Round, Journal of European Public Policy, 18(3): 402-418.
  • 2011: Negotiating Trade Liberalization at the WTO: Domestic Politics and Bargaining Dynamics, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-1-349-32405-7.
  • 2010: Who Controls Whom? Dynamics of Power Delegation and Agency Losses in EU Trade Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies 48(5): 1107-1126.
  • 2008: Assessing the Impact of Issue Linkage in the Common Fisheries Policy, International Negotiation, 13(2), 285-300.
  • 2006: Integrative and Distributive Bargaining in the EU: What Difference Does it Make?, Negotiation Journal, 22(2): 145-165.
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References
  1. Scherf, Martina (2017-01-23). "Big Data statt Platon". sueddeutsche.de (in German). ISSN 0174-4917. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
  2. Wetzel, Jakob (2016-04-13). "Sieben auf einen Streich". sueddeutsche.de (in German). ISSN 0174-4917. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
  3. "Die neue HfP startet mit sieben Professoren". merkur.de (in German). 2016-04-13. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
  4. University, Harvard (2017-05-29). "Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt | Center for European Studies at Harvard University". Center for European Studies at Harvard University. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
  5. "Das Technische ist politisch". www.tum.de (in German). Retrieved 2017-05-29.
  6. "Mehr Entscheidungskompetenzen für internationale Organisationen?" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-07-19. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
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