Emanuela Lombardo

Full Professor of Political Science at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, and at Complutense University of Madrid until October 2025, her lines of research are gender equality policies, in the European Union and Spain, and democracy and feminist politics. She has been founder and director of the Gender and Politics research group (GEYPO ref. 970799) with María Bustelo until October 2025, and is PI of a WP and the UCM team in the Horizon Europe CCINDLE project on democracy and feminism (Ref: 101061256, 2022-2026). Her latest edited volume is The European Commission under President Ursula von der Leyen. Gender, Leadership, Policies, and Crises (with Abels, G., J. Kantola & H. Müller, Oxford University Press, 2025), and latest monographs are Gender and Political Analysis (with Johanna Kantola, Palgrave, 2017) and The Symbolic Representation of Gender (with Petra Meier, Ashgate, 2014). Recent articles have been published in South European Society & Politics, Policy & Politics, European Journal of Political Research, Journal of Common Market Studies, Social Politics, International Political Science Review, Women’s Studies International Forum, and Policy and Society. She has edited the special issues Gender Inequalities in Academia (Sociology of Work 2024, with Manuela Naldini and Barbara Poggio), ‘De-democratization and opposition to gender equality politics in Europe’ (Social Politics 2021, with Johanna Kantola and Ruth Rubio), ‘Populism and Feminist Politics’ (International Political Science Review 2020, with Johanna Kantola), ‘Care policies in practice’ (Policy and Society 2019, with Rossella Ciccia) and ‘Policymaking from a Gender + Equality Perspective’ (Journal of Women, Politics and Policy 2017, with Petra Meier and Mieke Verloo). She has directed and participated in different national and international research projects and carried out research visits at Florence Scuola Normale Superiore (IT), and the universities of Madison-Wisconsin (US), Radboud (NL), Antwerp (B), Helsinki (FI), and Aalborg (DK). Spain’s Ministry of Research has recognised her ‘outstanding research trajectory’ (ANEP I3 Program). She has been a coordinator for the evaluation of gender research projects in the social sciences panel of Spain’s National Research Agency (2018-2021) and an elected member of the Board of Directors for the Spanish Political Science Association AECPA (2013-2017 and 2017-2022).