Senior Fellow

Martin Nettesheim

Professor of Law, University of Tuebingen

Martin Nettesheim is currently a professor of law at the University of Tuebingen Law School in Germany. He serves as head of the Tuebingen University Center for International Economic Law. Previously he has taught at Free University in Berlin and at Potsdam University Law School. He is Member of the Board of the European Law Institute, Co-Chair of the Gesellschaft für Rechtspolitik (GfR) and served as Secretary General of the Societas Iuris Publici Europaei (SIPE). He served as Dean of Tuebingen University Law School.

Nettesheim is a specialist on European Union Law and...

Ludvig Norman

Associate Professor of Political Science, Stockholm University

Norman’s research interests include European politics, democratic responses to anti-system actors, the institutions of the European Union and democratic theory. Norman also has a keen interest in social science methodology, and in particular qualitative and mixed-methods approaches to social scientific research.

Norman is currently heading a project funded by the Swedish Research Council called Dilemmas of Democratic Self Defense in European Public Broadcasting. The project analyses how public broadcasting organizations across Europe have responded to the rise and increasing...

Kevin Orr

Professor of Leadership and Governance, University of St Andrews, UK

Kevin Orr is a Senior Fellow in the Institute of European Studies. He is Professor of Leadership and Governance at the University of St Andrews, UK. Orr is a Fulbright Scholar and was hosted by the IES and the Center for British Studies at UC Berkeley as a Visiting Scholar in 2017-2018. During that time he led collaborative projects on political leadership and governance, austerity and crisis, and on several public policy areas. Orr is a recipient of the Louis Brownlow Prize from the American Society for Public Administration for work on academic-practitioner collaborative research. He has...

Spero Paravantes

Lecturer in the History of International Relations, University of Utrecht, Netherlands

Dr. Spero Simeon Z. Paravantes is a Senior Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, Institute of European Studies. He also holds posts as a Lecturer in the History of International Relations, University of Utrecht, Netherlands, and he is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Economic History, at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Italy. In 2017-18 he was a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley’s Institute of European Studies.

He is an International Historian, specializing in the Early Cold War period of American-European relations, Modern Greece and...

Friedemann Pestel

Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, University of Freiburg
Friedemann Pestel is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Freiburg. He studied history, French literature, and educational sciences at the University of Jena and the École normale supérieure in Paris. In 2013, he obtained his PhD from the University of Freiburg with a study on French émigrés in the Age of Revolutions. Since 2013, he has been teaching European history at Freiburg where he also obtained his habilitation in 2022. Pestel has held fellowships at the German Historical Institutes in Paris and London (2009‒2011), the Universities of Vienna (2015/16),...

Andreas Raspotnik

Senior Fellow

Dr. Andreas Raspotnik is a Senior Researcher at the High North Center for Business and Governance, Nord University (Bodø, Norway), where he currently manages the three-year project AlaskaNor (2018-2021). The project aims to examine the blue economy potential of Alaska and North Norway and potential areas of collaboration between these two Arctic regions.

Further, Andreas is a Senior Fellow and Leadership Group member at The Arctic Institute – Center for Circumpolar Security Studies, based in Washington, DC...

Dana Redford

Senior Fellow

Prof. Dana Redford is an internationally recognized expert on entrepreneurship, innovation and public policy. He has worked as an expert for the US Department of Commerce, the European Commission, the OECD, the UN and various European and African governments.

He coordinated the largest policy experimentation project on entrepreneurship in schools in the EU, co-edited the Entrepreneurial University...

Marianne Riddervold

Senior Fellow

Marianne Riddervold is Professor of Political Science (International Relations/Comparative politics) at Innlandet School of Economics and Social Sciences at Innlandet Norway University of Applied Sciences and at the Norwegian Institute of Foreign Affairs, NUPI. She is also a Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies. Riddervold holds a PhD in Political Science from ARENA – Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo, where she previously was employed as a postdoctoral fellow and researcher.

Marianne Riddervold's professional interests include European...

Carla Shapreau

Lecturer, Berkeley Law

Carla Shapreau is a Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where she teaches art and cultural property law. She also is a Senior Fellow in the Institute of European Studies, where she is conducting cultural property research. In the Department of Music, she is Curator of the Ansley K. Salz Collection. While earning her Juris Doctor, Carla Shapreau was a judicial extern for the Honorable Chief Judge Robert F. Peckham, U.S. District Court, San Francisco, before becoming an intellectual property, art, and cultural property law practitioner.

A recipient of a...

Gilad Sharvit

Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Towson University

Gilad Sharvit is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Towson University. A scholar of modern Jewish thought, Sharvit's interests lie in Jewish philosophy, German-Jewish literature and culture, German and continental philosophy, psychoanalysis and critical theory.

Sharvit is the author of Therapeutics and Salvation: Freud and Schelling on Freedom (Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2021) and co-editor and contributing author of the volumes Freud and Monotheism: The Violent Origins of Religion with Karen Feldman (Fordham...