Cornelia Woll is Professor of International Political Economy at the Hertie School, the University of Governance in Berlin, where she has also served as President from 2022-2026. Her prior appointment was at Sciences Po in Paris, where she served in many roles since 2006, including President of the Academic Board, Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Co-Director of the Max Planck Sciences Po Center. In both universities, she has worked to expand the international reputation and scientific excellence, while making the degree programs attractive and accessible and developing the link between academia and the public sphere.
She is a board member of Central European University, of the FAZIT-Foundation, the majority shareholder of the German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and executive board member of the Einstein Foundation, which supports science in the Land of Berlin, in addition to several roles in scientific advisory boards.
Her research in international political economy focuses on regulatory issues in the European Union and the United States. A specialist on business-government relations, she is the author of Corporate Crime and Punishment: Negotiated Justice in Global Markets (Princeton, 2023), The Power of Inaction: Bank Bailouts in Comparative Perspective (Cornell, 2014) and Firm Interest: How Governments Shape Business Lobbying on Global Trade (Cornell, 2008).
She has been a visiting professor at Goethe University Frankfurt and Harvard University. Woll holds a habilitation in political science from the University of Bremen (2013), a bi-national PhD from Sciences Po and the University of Cologne (2005), and an MA and a BA in international relations and political science from the University of Chicago.
