Michael Zurn is director of the research unit Transnational Conflicts and International Institutions of the Social Science Research Center Berlin and Professor of International Relations at the Free University of Berlin. From 2004 to 2009 he was founding dean of the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. Zurn is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. He is (co-)editor or (co-)author of numerous books, including Handbook on Multi-Level Governance (2010), Transformations of the State (2005) and Law and Governance in Post-national Europe (2005).