Speakers at the GLOBUS kick-off conference

	Helene Sjursen - GLOBUS Coordinator Research Professor at ARENA. Sjursen’s main fields of interest include the EU as an international actor, EU’s foreign and security policy, EU enlargement, and theories of international relations. A key concern in her research has been to develop theoretical concepts that better capture the normative dimensions of foreign policy and to apply these in empirical research.
	Nancy Fraser - keynote speaker Professor of Political and Social Science at The New School for Social Research, NY, Global Justice Chair at Collège d’études mondiales in Paris, and Professor II at the Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo. Fraser is a leading critical theorist who specialises in social, political and feminist theory. Her work addresses globalisation, cosmopolitanism, identity politics, neoliberalism, the welfare state, and gender issues. In her more recent research, Fraser develops a theory of justice in a post-national framework.
	Karin Aggestam Professor at Lund University, Sweden and Visiting Professor at Monash University, Australia. Aggestam’s research interests include gender, conflict analysis, negotiation and peace-building. She is currently lead author for the International Panel on Social Progress.
	Sreeram Chaulia Professor and Dean at the Jindal School of International Affairs of O.P. Jindal Global University, India. Chaulia’s research interests include diplomacy, foreign policy, humanitarian practices and international organisations. Recent publications include the book Politics of the Global Economic Crisis.
	Mai’a K. Davis Cross Senior Researcher at ARENA and Associate Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University, US. Her main fields of interest are European foreign and security policy, diplomacy, public diplomacy and soft/smart power. Cross' most recent book is The Politics of Crisis in Europe.
	Thomas Diez Professor at the Institute of Political Science, University of Tübingen, Germany. Diez’ areas of interest include the role of the EU as an actor in world politics, problems at the intersection of European and international politics, and the securitisation of climate change.
	Erik O. Eriksen Professor and Director of ARENA. His main research fields are political theory, public policy and European integration. Eriksen has published on topics such as democracy in the EU, functions and limits of the state, deliberative democracy, regional politics, security politics and the welfare state.
	David Everatt Professor and Head of School, Wits School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. His interests include politics, voting, political change and governance, urban change and governance, and democratisation. He has published widely on topics such as youth development, development and poverty, and education.
	John Erik Fossum Professor at ARENA. Fossum’s fields of interest include political theory, democracy and constitutionalism in the EU and Canada, and transformation of the nation state. He has published extensively on these topics and the issue of a European public sphere, multilevel parliamentarism and the EU’s social constituency.
	Christopher Lord Professor at ARENA. His main fields of academic interest include the study of democracy, legitimacy and the European Union. Lord has published extensively in these fields, and has also worked on topics such as EU foreign policy, the political economy of the monetary union, and political parties in the EU.
	Sonia Lucarelli Associate Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy. Lucarelli’s areas of interest include international relations theory and the EU’s approach to migration. She has published widely on European identity and the external perceptions of the EU as a global actor.
	Pundy Pillay Professor of Economics and Public Finance at the Wits School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Pillay’s research interests include economics and public policy, economics of education and labour markets, and public finance. He is former head of the policy unit for President Thabo Mbeki’s office.
	Leticia Pinheiro Associate Professor at the Institute of Social and Political Studies, State University of Rio de Janeiro. Pinheiro specialises in Brazilian foreign policy, and her areas of interest include foreign policy, decision-making processes, foreign policy analysis, and south-south cooperation. She is co-editor of the Journal of Brazilian Political Science Review.
	Ben Tonra Jean Monnet Professor ad personam of European Foreign, Security and Defence Policy and Associate Professor of International Relations at the School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin. Tonra has published extensively on Irish and European foreign policy and the international dimension of the EU.
	Yiwei Wang Professor and Director of the Institute of International Affairs and Director of the Center for European Studies at Renmin University of China. He has been diplomat at the Chinese Mission to the EU. His fields of expertise include EU Studies, public diplomacy, Belt and Road studies and Chinese foreign policy. Recent publications include the book The Belt & Road Initiative: What China Will Offer the World in Its Rise.