Lisa Dellmuth

Lisa Dellmuth is a Senior Research Fellow at SEI Headquarters and a Professor of International Relations at Stockholm University. She specializes in International Political Economy, sustainability governance, and public opinion research. Lisa has worked extensively on the governance of climate change, critical minerals, and humanitarian and foreign aid. She seeks to explain how aid is allocated, how international organizations change, and how legitimate and effective political decisions are across scales.

Lisa’s research also examines how people perceive international organizations and their ability to help states govern climate change and related issues, particularly aid, critical minerals, food, and trade. Combining surveys, experiments, and statistical analysis, she studies opinion formation, political behavior, and public support for protectionism. She currently leads the five-year ERC-CoG project PROTECT, which examines how subnational change shapes support for protectionism.

After obtaining her PhD in political science in 2011 from the University of Mannheim in Germany, Lisa has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University. She held assistant and associate professor positions at Stockholm University, and has been visiting fellow inter alia at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, the Jean Monnet Centre in Berlin, and the Center for European Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.