Fostering Innovation, Policy and Impact Through Social Sciences Research 

Marina Cino Pagliarello

Professor

European University Institute

Marina Cino Pagliarello joined the School of Transnational Governance in September 2023 as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow. Previously, she was an ESRC Post-Doctoral Fellow at the London School of Economics (LSE) and held academic positions at LSE, UCL, Queen Mary University of London, and University of Essex. Her research focuses on governance in higher education in Europe and the role of polysemic ideas in restructuring actors’ interests. Her monograph “Ideas and European Education policy: 1975-2020” was published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2022. Dr. Cino Pagliarello has extensive experience in education policy research and has worked with various national and international organizations. As a Marie Curie Fellow at STG, she will explore the role of universities as diplomatic actors in promoting international relations.

Valentina Tartari

Professor

Stockholm School of Economics

Valentina Tartari is the Jacob and Marcus Wallenberg Professor of Innovative and Sustainable Business Development at the Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology (DEIT), where she is the director of the JMW Center. She is also affiliated with the department of Strategy and Innovation at Copenhagen Business School. Her research focuses on the determinants of knowledge production and transfer, inside and outside academia. Specifically, she studies how academic researchers produce scientific knowledge and how this knowledge is transferred to industry and society. Valentina is also interested in the role universities have in stimulating local entrepreneurship.   

Ilke Toygur

Director of the Global Policy Center

IE University

Dr. Ilke Toygür is the Director of the Global Policy Center and Professor of Practice at IE University’s School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs. Her expertise encompasses European integration, EU institutions, democracy in Western Europe, transatlantic relations and Turkey’s relations with the West. She holds a BA and MA in Economics, an MA in Democracy and Government and a PhD in Political Science. Since 2008, she has worked with institutions like the Economic Development Foundation, Elcano Royal Institute and SWP in Brussels. A former Mercator-IPC Fellow, she is now a non-resident senior associate at CSIS in Washington, DC. 

Dina Waked

Dean of Sciences Po’s School of Research

Sciences Po

Dina Waked holds a Doctor of Judicial Science (S.J.D) and a Master of Laws (LL.M) from Harvard Law School, a Bachelor of Law (LL.B) from the Faculty of Law at Cairo University and a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Economics from the American University in Cairo. She works at the intersection of several disciplines, particularly law and economics. Her research and publications are in the fields of antitrust and competition law; law and development - particularly in the Global South; and law and economics. Her work focuses on redistribution, inequality, and social justice. She is a member of several international networks such as the Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP) at Harvard Law School, the Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA), and since 2020 has been a jury member of the Prix de la Chancellerie des Universités de Paris.