Invited Talks, Academic, Public & Policy Engagement

  • 06/15-17/2026  
    Discussant: “Authors-Meet-Critics: Gender, Leadership, and Crisis: Possibilities and Perils for Women Leaders,” ECPR European Conference in Politics and Gender, University of Newcastle.

    05/28-29/2025
    Discussant: “Symbolic Effects of Women Leaders,” Politics & Gender Conference, New Brunswick, USA 

    05/8-10/2025     
    Discussant: “Book Roundtable: ‘The EU High Representative: Foreign Policy Leadership in a Changing World,’” and “Gender Mainstreaming in EU Political Economy,” European Union Studies Association, 19th Biennial Conference, Philadelphia 

    03/04/2025
    Speaker: “Between cooperation and rivalry: the leadership of Charles Michel as President of the European Council,” Presentation of the Annual Review of the European Union 2023, Journal of Common Market Studies, University of Bologna, hybrid event 

    12/10/2024 
    Discussant: “Founding Women and Men: For a New—and Fairer—History of European Integration (Book Presentation by Dr. S. Guerra),” ECPR Standing Group on the European Union Online Seminar Series

    06/11/2024      
    Talk: “Women and Leadership in the European Union: The Case of Ursula von der Leyen,” European University Institute, School of Transnational Governance, STG Research Seminar, Florence 

    05/17/2023 
    Lecture: “The State of Women and Leadership in the European Union,” Political Science Colloquium, University of Tübingen, online event 

    03/11/2022  
    Speaker: “Gender and Leadership in the European Parliament at Midterm,” EUGenDem Virtual Workshop, Tampere University

    03/20/2017
    Lecture: “Unexplored Parallels: Political Leadership and Economic Growth in Democracies and Autocracies,” Utrecht School of Governance, University of Utrecht

    12/15/2011
    Talk: “Political Leadership in the European Union,” German Historical Institute, Washington DC           

    12/02/2011    
    Talk: “Political Leadership in the European Union,” Georgetown University, Washington DC

  • 05/08/2026 
    Speaker: “Political Leadership, (Gender) Equality, and Unprecedented Crises: Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Agenda-Setting,” PublicBook Launch: “The European Commission under President Ursula von der Leyen: Gender, Leadership, Policies, and Crises,” Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence

    12/17/2025  
    Speaker: “Political Leadership and the Differential von der Leyen Effect in European Policy-Making,” Public Book Launch: “The European Commission under President Ursula von der Leyen: Gender, Leadership, Policies, and Crises,” Political Science Colloquium, University of Tübingen, hybrid event

    06/19/2025 
    Speaker: “‘From Bread to Bullets: Is Multilateralism in Trouble?’ A Roundtable Discussion with Women Leaders,” Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy, Abu Dhabi 

    08/03/2023
    Interviewer/Podcast-Interview with H.E. Dr. Fatou Bensouda: “Women Leaders in International Law,” LSE IDEAS Think Tank, Project: Women in Diplomacy (PI Karen E. Smith), website: https://www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/projects/women-in-diplomacy

    04/25/2023
    Speaker: “Women and Leadership in the European Union” (with I. Tömmel). European Parliamentary Research Service, European Parliament, online event 

    06/20/2022 
    Speaker: “Frauen und Führung in der Europäischen Union,” public event, Public Book Launch: “Women and Leadership in the European Union,” Permanent Representation of the European Commission in Germany, Berlin

    06/17-18/2021  
    Speaker: “Need for Women Led Diplomacy for a New World Order,” High Level Diplomacy Workshop “The New Diplomacy in an Age of the Emerging Global Binary,” Centre for Security, Diplomacy, and Strategy (VUB, Brussels) and LSE IDEAS Foreign Policy Think Tank, online event

    02/20/2020
    Lecture: “Women and Leadership: Mapping the Global Challenge,” Interactive Workshop: “Leadership in Practice: Women in Family Business,” Tharawat Family Business Forum, Dubai