Alexander H. Trechsel

Alexander H. Trechsel is a Professor of Political Science and the first full-time holder of the Swiss Chair in Federalism and Democracy at the EUI. He is also a faculty fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Before joining the Institute in 2005 he spent six years as Vice Director of the Research and Documentation Centre on Direct Democracy (c2d) at the University of Geneva. Trechsel is co-director of the European Union Observatory on Democracy (EUDO), part of the EUI’s Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.