Catherine E. de Vries is a Dutch political scientist.[1] She is Dean of Diversity & Inclusion and Professor of Political Science at Bocconi University.[2] She is known for her research on European politics, including political behaviour, comparative European politics and political economy.[3][2][4] She is also a columnist for the Dutch newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad (Financial Times).[5]
Starting in June 2020, de Vries was the coordinator (along with Seth Jolly) of the EUROPOW (European Politics Online Workshop): weekly hour-long seminars about contemporary topics of related to European politics research and roundtables on current events.[6]
In 2003, de Vries obtained her M. A. in Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. She was awarded her PhD in Political Science from VU University Amsterdam in 2007.[7]
Since January 2020 de Vries has been an Associate Member at Nuffield College, University of Oxford.
Since 2023, de Vries has been part of the Centre for European Policy Studies/Heinrich Böll Foundation High-Level Group on Bolstering EU Democracy, chaired by Kalypso Nicolaïdis.[8]
In 2024, de Vries was assigned the Generali Endowed Chair in European Policies. [9]