Vivien A. Schmidt is Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Professor of International Relations and Political Science in the Pardee School at Boston University, where she also served as Founding Director of its Center for the Study of Europe. She is Honorary Professor at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome and has been a visiting professor or visiting scholar at Sciences Po in Paris, the Free University of Berlin, the European University Institute, Oxford University, and the University of Paris, among others. She has published extensively European political economy, institutions, and democracy as well as political theory (esp. the role of ideas and discourse in political analysis), with thirteen books, over 300 articles, and numerous policy briefs for European institutions. Schmidt’s latest book Europe’s Crisis of Legitimacy: Governing by Rules and Ruling by Numbers in the Eurozone (Oxford 2020)—received the Best Book Award (2021) of the American Political Science Association (Ideas, Knowledge and Politics section) and Honorable Mention for the Best Book Award (2022) of the European Union Studies Association. Other recent books include Resilient Liberalism in Europe’s Political Economy (co-edited, Cambridge 2013) and Democracy in Europe (Oxford 2006; La Découverte 2010 Fr. trans.)—named in 2015 by the European Parliament as one of the ‘100 Books on Europe to Remember.’ Recent honors and awards include decoration as Chevalier in the French Legion of Honor, the European Union Studies Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award, an Honorary Doctorate from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for her current project on the ‘rhetoric of discontent,’ a transatlantic investigation of populism.