Eva Sørensen is a Professor of Public Administration and Democracy at Roskilde University. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Copenhagen. She is the author of 13 books including Interactive Political Leadership (Oxford University Press 2020), Interactive Governance: Advancing the Paradigm (with Jacob Torfing, B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre, Oxford University Press, 2019), Collaborative Governance and Public Innovation in Northern Europe (editor, with Annika Agger, Bodil Damgaard and Andreas H. Krogh, Bentham Publishers, 2014) and The Politics of Self-governance (editor, with Peter Triantafillou, Ashgate, 2013). Her research focuses on current developments in democracy and their implications for politics, governance, forms of political leadership, and the role of citizens in political decision making and innovative problem solving and public value production.