Gaby Umbach

Gaby Umbach is a Part-time Professor and Founding Director of GlobalStat at the European University Institute's Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. She serves as a non-resident Visiting Fellow for the European Parliament, Adjunct Professor at the Universities of Cologne and Innsbruck, and Board member of the Institute for European Politics Berlin.

Her research focuses on knowledge-evidence-data interactions in governance, analyzing measuring/statistics as governance techniques, data literacy in policy-making, and transformations of politics through multilevel/anticipatory governance and sustainable development. She designed the GlobalStat database, linking it to the European Parliamentary Research Service and OECD.

Scientific awards:

• Stiftung Demokratie Best PhD Thesis Award (2009)

Key article trends include: global governance frameworks, data-driven EU policy innovations, open science impacts, and strategic foresight mechanisms. Her 2023-2024 publications emphasize economic indicators in international trade, policy evaluation methodologies, and database design for global governance.