Filipe Teles is an assistant professor at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He is a member of the university’s Research Unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policy, where he has worked on governance and local administration, territorial reforms, political leadership, and innovation. He has recently co-edited, with A. Gendzwill, C. Stanus, and H. Heinelt, Close Ties in European Local Governance - Linking Local State and Society (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), and has published articles in journals including Science of the Total Environment, European Planning Studies, International Review of Administrative Sciences, European Urban and Regional Studies, and Local Government Studies. He is a member and the president of the European Urban Research Association and of the ECPR’s Steering Committee of the Local Government and Politics Standing Group. ORCID: 0000-0002-5059-368X