Hanna Kleider

Dr. Hanna Kleider is a Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at King’s College London’s Department of Political Economy, within the School of Politics & Economics. She joined the university in 2019 and serves as Programme Director for the MA Political Economy. Previously, she held positions at the University of Georgia and the OECD. Her research focuses on comparative political economy, emphasizing territorial inequalities, social policy impacts on gender relations, and decentralization dynamics. Notable works include studies on EU fiscal transfers and subnational social spending patterns.

Education: PhD in Political Science (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Max Weber Fellowship (European University Institute, 2017-18). Teaching includes courses on economic policy-making and comparative political economy. Research affiliations include the Quantitative Political Economy, Public Policy & Regulation, and Social Equity research groups.

Key projects include Leverhulme Trust-funded research on territorial inequality and British Academy grants studying pandemic policy responses. Awards include the Max Weber Fellowship. Her work bridges political science and economics, emphasizing advanced quantitative methods. Recent publications analyze the knowledge economy transition and pandemic governance in multi-level systems.