Biography
Laura Pierret is a Max Weber Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre. She is a political scientist with a background in economics. Her main research and teaching interests include European integration, the role of ideas in policymaking, and macroeconomic and social policies. She recently successfully defended her doctoral dissertation on the political power of the concept of moral hazard in European economic governance. Her research has been published in leading academic journals in the field of EU studies, like the Journal of European Public Policy, JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, or the Journal of European integration.
As a Max Weber Fellow, Laura is further developing her work on moral hazard to include a transatlantic comparative perspective. She is also writing a book proposal based on her dissertation.
Prior to joining the European University Institute, Laura was a doctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg (2020-2024), an academic assistant at the College of Europe (Bruges, 2019-2020), an assistant economist at the Embassy of the Argentine Republic (Brussels, 2018), and a junior analysist at France Stratégie-Prime Minister’s Office (Paris, 2016-2017).
Laura holds a PhD in political science from the University of Luxembourg, a master’s degree in European political and governance studies from the College of Europe, a master’s degree in international economics from the Paris-Dauphine University, and a double bachelor’s degree in economics from the Paris-Dauphine University and the Autonomous University of Madrid.