Sara Hagemann is a Danish academic and an expert on international and European politics. She has published extensively on issues related to political processes and representation in the

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, transparency in politics, and the role of national parliaments in international affairs. Sara is currently Professor of Political Science and Vice Dean at the Faculty of Social Sciences,

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, where she joined in September 2021. Before then she was associate professor at the

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and Associate Dean at the LSE School of Public Policy and a faculty member of the LSE European Institute. Sara has also held positions as head of programme and policy analyst at the

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's Political Europe Programme and the

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, senior fellow at the

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, and worked in the Danish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

Early life and education

Hagemann was born in 1979 in

Aarhus Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus municipality, Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and app ...

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, to former Secretary General of the

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Henrik Hagemann and school teacher Jytte Fisker. She undertook her postgraduate studies at the Department of Government of the

where she was awarded her

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in 2007 with a thesis entitled 'Decision-Making in the European Union's Council of Ministers’ under the supervision of

Simon Hix Simon Hix is a British political scientist, holder of the Stein Rokkan chair in comparative politics at the European University Institute in Florence. His main areas of research are voting in parliaments, democratic institutions, and EU politi ...

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References

Living people Danish political scientists Academics of the London School of Economics European Union and European integration scholars Year of birth missing (living people) Danish women political scientists {{London-stub