Cornelia Woll

Woll holds a bi-national Ph.D. in political science from the University of Cologne and Sciences Po Paris, completed in 2005. She also obtained a Habilitation in Political Science from the University of Bremen in 2013. Additionally, she earned a master's degree (M.A.) in International Relations from the University of Chicago in 2000 and a bachelor's degree (B.A.) in Political Science from the same institution in 1999.^[2]

Woll served as a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne from 2002 to 2006.^[3]

After 2006, Cornelia Woll held several prominent academic and leadership positions, including co-director of the Max Planck Sciences Po Center (2019–2022),^[4] before becoming the president of the Hertie School in Berlin in 2022. Woll succeeded Henrik Enderlein, who died in 2021, and took over from acting president Prof. Mark Halleberg.^[5] Her focus is to guide the school in an era of digital transformation, promoting diversity.^[6]