Adrienne Heritier holds a joint chair of political science at the Department of Political and Social Science and the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence. She has previously been a Director of the Max Planck Project Group (now Max Planck Institute) for Common Goods in Bonn, Germany. Her main areas of research are comparative public policy making, regulation, Europeanization, institutional theory and new modes of governance.