Stefanie Walter

Stefanie Walter is a Non-resident Fellow at Bruegel. She specialises in international relations and political economy.

Her research covers distributional conflicts, political preferences and economic policy outcomes related to globalisation, European integration and financial crises. Current projects examine the backlash against globalisation, responses to non-cooperation in international relations, the contestation of global governance and perceptions of the Global South.

She speaks English and German.

She is also a full professor for international relations and political economy at the Department of Political Science at the University of Zurich and co-director of the University of Zurich’s Center for Crisis Competence. Before joining the faculty at the University of Zurich in 2013, she was a Fritz-Thyssen-Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and Junior Professor for International and Comparative Political Economy at the University of Heidelberg. She holds a PhD in in Political Science from ETH Zurich for a dissertation on the political economy of currency crises.

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Declaration of interests 2024

Declaration of interests 2020