MAREN HOFIUS 

Maren Hofius is currently a Senior Researcher at the Chair of Global Governance at the University of Hamburg, where she completed her PhD in 2015. In 2020-2021 she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen. 

Hofius is a leading specialist in practice theoretical research on regional and global governance. Focusing on European Union diplomacy, and foreign and security policy more broadly, she is widely known for research that considers the importance of ethics in diplomacy and the politics of knowledge production in International Relations theory. In her most recent work, she has focused on new approaches to informal governance, regime interactions and the negotiations of treaties.

Hofius has published in leading global governance and diplomacy journals including the The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, Global Constitutionalism, Global Studies Quarterly and the Review of International Studies. In 2017, she was awarded the British International Studies Association prize for ‘Best Article in Review of International Studies’. Hofius has extensive management experience, including through organizing international conferences on Germany’s Zeitenwende in its foreign and security policy as well as leading a network on feminist foreign policy.