Cornelia Woll

Cornelia Woll is Professor of International Political Economy at the Hertie School, the University of Governance in Berlin, where she has also served as President from 2022-2026.

Prior to moving to Berlin, she has spent 20 years at Sciences Po in Paris. Her research in international political economy focuses on regulatory issues in the European Union and the United States.

A specialist on business-government relations, she is the author of Corporate Crime and Punishment: Negotiated Justice in Global Markets (Princeton UP, 2023), The Power of Inaction: Bank Bailouts in Comparative Perspective (Cornell UP, 2014) and Firm Interest: How Governments Shape Business Lobbying on Global Trade (Cornell UP, 2008).

She holds a bi-national PhD from Sciences Po and the University of Cologne (2005), and an MA and a BA in international relations and political science from the University of Chicago.

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