Dr Federica Genovese

Professor of Political Science and International Relations

Dr Federica Genovese is a Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Oxford and Fellow at St Antony’s College. Before joining Oxford, she was Professor of Government at University of Essex. 

Federica has a PhD from University of Konstanz and degrees from Johns Hopkins SAIS and University of Toronto. She has held a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford and had visiting positions at Nuffield College (Oxford) and Collegio Carlo Alberto (Turin). Her work focuses on international and comparative political economy, with particular attention to climate politics and policy, globalization, redistribution and the politics of crises, especially – but not exclusively – in Europe. Among other projects, in 2023-27 she leads the Varieties of Climate Vulnerabilities project funded by a Research Leadership Award from the Leverhulme Trust.