Laura Polverari is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Padua, where she teaches EU policymaking and Public Administration. She directs the Master’s degree in European and Global Studies, as well as the Institutional and Administrative Capacities Observatory (#CAPIS).

She has over 20 years’ experience managing and directing multinational research programmes focusing on EU cohesion policy, regional development, institutional and administrative capacities, and the design, implementation, and evaluation of EU policy. Her current research interests focus primarily on public administration reform, administrative capacity and capacity building, EU cohesion policy, EU health policy, Europeanisation, and multi-level governance.

She currently serves as Book Review Editor and Regular Associate Editor of Regional Studies, as well as Chair of the Italian Political Science Association’s Standing Group on Public Administration and Policies. She is also a Fellow of the Regional Studies Association (RSA) and sits on the RSA Europe Board of Directors. She has authored and edited books, policy reports, special issues and articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Comparative European Politics, Contemporary Italian Politics, Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, Italian Political Science Review, Policy and Society, Polis, Regional Studies, Regional and Federal Studies, and Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche.