Biography

Waltraud Schelkle is Joint Chair for European Public Policy at the Department for Political and Social Sciences and the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. Before joining the EUI, she was Professor in Political Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Schelkle’s research interests are, first of all, in the area of political economy of monetary integration, understood as a form of inter-state risk sharing. Her book on “The political economy of monetary solidarity: understanding the experiment of the euro” has been published with Oxford University Press in 2017. This work will now be continued in an ERC-funded research project on 'Policy crisis and crisis politics: Sovereignty, Solidarity and Identity in Europe post-2008'. This research compares the politics of risk-sharing in different crises. She has also an interest in the impact of financial markets on policy-making.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

• Finance and society

Supervisees

• Cathal Coffey
• Jordy Weyns
• Martin Fischer
• Michelangelo Fano
• Lauren Leek
• Martín Alberdi

Mentor for

• Ann-Kathrin Reinl
• Isabel Perera

Fields of expertise

Recent research output

• SCHELKLE, Waltraud (2023), Monetary re-insurance of fiscal states in Europe, Article
• SCHELKLE, Waltraud (2023), Monetary integration, crises and solidarity, Contribution to book
• SCHELKLE, Waltraud (2023), When all else fails : European re-insurance of member states, Contribution to book
• SCHELKLE, Waltraud (2023), The political economy of reinsurance, Contribution to book
• ALEXANDER-SHAW, Kate; GANDERSON, Joseph; SCHELKLE, Waltraud (2023), The strength of a weak centre : pandemic politics in the European Union and the United States, Article
• FERRARA, Federico M.; SCHELKLE, Waltraud; TRUCHLEWSKI, Zbigniew (2023), What difference does the framing of a crisis make to European Union solidarity?, Article