Project Leaders
Jacint Jordana
Director, IBEI
Jacint Jordana is Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He holds a BA/PhD in Economics (Universitat de Barcelona, 1992). He has been visiting fellow at the Copenhagen Business School, Australian National University, Wissenschafts Zentrum Berlin, University of California (San Diego) and Konstanz University. From 2005 to 2010 he was co-chair (together with David Levi-Faur) of the ECPR standing group on Regulatory Governance . Currently, he is director of the
Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), an inter-university research institute devoted to international studies.
Link: Jacint Jordana
Email: jjordana@ibei.org

Michael Keating
Director of the CCC
Michael Keating is Professor of Politics at the University of Aberdeen and Director of the ESRC
Centre on Constitutional Change. He has a BA from the University of Oxford and in 1975 was the first PhD graduate from what is now Glasgow Caledonian University. He has taught in several universities including Strathclyde, Western Ontario and the European University Institute, as well as universities in Spain and France. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Academy of Social Sciences.
Link: Michael Keating
Email: m.keating@abdn.ac.uk

Axel Marx
Deputy-director of Leuven Center for Global Governance Studies
Axel Marx is deputy-director of the
Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, University of Leuven. He studied in Leuven, Hull and Cambridge and holds a PhD from the University of Leuven. His research focuses on global governance, sustainability standards, non-state market regulation, human rights, trade governance, research methodology, comparative case methods and qualitative comparative analysis (QCA). As an expert to policy-makers he has contributed to reports and expert assignments for inter alia UNIDO, ILO, European Commission, European Parliament, Committee of the Regions, Belgian Federal Government, Belgian Flemish Government, German Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Dutch Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
Link: Axel Marx
Email: axel.marx@kuleuven.be

Jan Wouters
Founding-director of Leuven Center for Global Governance Studies
Jan Wouters (BE) is Jean Monnet Chair ad personam “EU and Global Governance”, Full Professor of International Law and International Organizations, and founding Director of the Institute for International Law and of the
Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, an interdisciplinary centre of excellence, at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven). He is also Visiting Professor at Sciences Po Paris and LUISS University Rome. He is a Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts, President of the United Nations Association Flanders Belgium, and practices law as Of Counsel at Linklaters, Brussels.
Link: Jan Wouters
Email: jan.wouters@ggs.kuleuven.be