Klaus Dingwerth

Klaus Dingwerth is a non-resident fellow with the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) and a professor of Political Science at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. Klaus’s research interests include global environmental politics, international organizations, transnational governance and international ethics.

Klaus is the author of The New Transnationalism (Palgrave, 2007), co-author of Postnationale Demokratie (VS Verlag, 2011), International Organizations under Pressure (Oxford UP, 2019), and The Unmaking of Special Rights (Edward Elgar, 2024, open access), as well as a co-editor of Global Environmental Change and the Nation State (a special issue of the journal Global Environmental Politics, 2004) and The Language of World Trade Politics (Routledge, 2019). He regularly reviews for over 20 international academic journals, publishers and research foundations and has co-organized over a dozen international workshops and conferences. His co-authored article ​“The rise of democratic legitimation: why international organizations speak the language of democracy” won the 2019 International Geneva Award.

Klaus holds a PhD in political science from the Free University in Berlin and a habilitation from the University of Bremen. Before joining the University of St.Gallen, he held a post-doctoral position at the University of Bremen and directed an Emmy Noether Research Group on changing norms of global governance funded by the German Research Foundation.