Sara Hagemann is a Danish academic and an expert on international and European politics. She has published extensively on issues related to political processes and representation in the

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, transparency in politics, and the role of national parliaments in international affairs. Sara is currently Professor of Political Science and Vice Dean at the Faculty of Social Sciences,

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, where she joined in September 2021. Before then she was associate professor at the

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and Associate Dean at the LSE School of Public Policy and a faculty member of the LSE European Institute. Sara has also held positions as head of programme and policy analyst at the

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's Political Europe Programme and the

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, senior fellow at the

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, and worked in the Danish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

Early life and education

Hagemann was born in 1979 in

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, to former Secretary General of the

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Henrik Hagemann and school teacher Jytte Fisker. She undertook her postgraduate studies at the Department of Government of the

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where she was awarded her

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in 2007 with a thesis entitled 'Decision-Making in the European Union’s Council of Ministers’ under the supervision of

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Works

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References

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