The team

Principal and Permanent Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study
Professor of Social Anthropology, Uppsala University
Professor of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University

Christina Garsten is Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, where she became professor in 2008 and previously served as Chair of the Department. Since 2022 she has been President of the European Network of Institutes for Advanced Study (NetIAS).

Her research interests are in organizational anthropology with a particular focus on globalization, governance, and the role of think tanks and policy professionals in shaping political decision-making and global governance. She has also written extensively on corporate social responsibility, voluntary regulation, transparency and accountability, and labour market transformations. Her recent work includes studies of foresight and scenario-building as tools of knowledge production.

She is the author and editor of numerous books, among them Discreet Power: How the World Economic Forum Shapes Global Markets (with Adrienne Sörbom, Stanford University Press, 2018), Power, Policy and Profit: Corporate Engagement in Politics and Governance (Edward Elgar, 2017), and Anthropology Now and Next (Berghahn, 2014).

Garsten has held visiting appointments at Stanford University, Georgetown University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, Sciences Po, the European University Institute, and the University of Cambridge, among others. She is a member of the Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala and serves on several international academic boards and editorial committees.

Director of the Foundation-Excellence Laboratory RFIEA “French Network of Institutes for Advanced Study” funded by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation.

Lead Coordinator of UBIAS, a network of 45 university-based Institutes for Advanced Study worldwide (member of the Steering Committee since 2010).

Lead Coordinator of the European COFUND FIAS programme since 2020, and previously of the European COFUND EURIAS programme (2010-2019). 

Lead Coordinator of the International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP) and of the World Pandemic Research Network (WPRN).

President-elect of the Governing Board of the European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities (EASSH) (2018-2021).

Head of the European and International Affairs at Alliance Athena (French Alliance for the Social Sciences and the Humanities) (2012-2021).

Mylène Trouvé is the Secretary general of the RFIEA Foundation. She has been acting as Secretary general for European projects (EURIAS fellowship programme, and French institutes for Advanced Study fellowship programme) and for the Laboratoire d'excellence RFIEA+ since 2010.