Kristin E. Fabbe

Kristin E. Fabbe is the Chair in Business and Comparative Politics and the Academic Director of Executive Education at the European University Institute’s Florence School of Transnational Governance.

She is a Senior Research Associate at ELIAMEP and a Global Affiliate at the Global Scholars Network on Identity and Conflict (GSNIC).

Kristin studies the cross-border mobility of ideas and norms, populations, and commercial exchange—examining both the transformative effects of these flows and the political mechanisms that seek to control them. Her research on how transnational flows influence the politics of social cohesion and social rupture has been published in leading academic outlets, contributing to debates on modernization, religion and politics, migration governance, conflict processes, and the relationship between business and government. Her regional focus is on the Mediterranean and Middle East.

Previously Kristin served as Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and as Associate Professor in the Government Department at Claremont McKenna College. She has also worked with the International Organization for Migration, consulted for the public and private sector, and led European Technical Support Initiatives in the fields of migration governance, geoeconomics, and public administration.

She holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a specialization in Comparative Politics and Methods, and M.Sc in the History and Theory of International Relations from the London School of Economics and a B.A. in History from Lewis and Clark College.