Edith Drieskens

• Senior Member of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KULeuven
• Assistant Professor of International Relations

Contact Data

• Institute for International and European Policy
  KU Leuven
  Parkstraat 45 - box 3602
  B - 3000 Leuven
• Telephone +32 16 32 36 19
• Fax +32 16 32 30 88
• E-mail: edith.drieskens@soc.kuleuven.be

Short Bio

Edith Drieskens is Assistant Professor of International Relations. Her current work explores the regional and multilateral dimensions of global governance and looks into the implementation of the Lisbon Treaty in the UN context.

Edith Drieskens studied Political Sciences, European Studies and American Studies,  and holds a PhD in Social Sciences. Her doctoral research explored the representation behaviour of the EU Member States serving at the UN Security Council, taking a principal-agent perspective and focusing on economic and financial sanctions. Within that context, she was a visiting scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs (Center on International Organization) at Columbia University and interned at the Permanent Representation of Belgium to the UN in New York. Before returning to Leuven on a full-time basis in September 2011, she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Clingendael Institute in The Hague.