Dr Simona Guerra, SFHEA, is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the University of Surrey, UK. Her main research interest focuses on the domestic politics of European integration. Her first monograph, on Central and Eastern European Attitudes towards the EU (Palgrave) was published in 2013, Euroscepticism, Democracy and the Media (co-edited with Manuela Caiani, Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology) was released in 2017, and her most recent, the Oxford Handbook of Polish Politics, with Katarzyna Walecka and Fernando Casal Bértoa, is forthcoming. She has contributed to the Routledge book on Euroscepticism as a Transnational and Pan-European Phenomenon, the Routledge Handbook of Euroscepticism, and articles examining Brexit, Euroscepticism, and populism, and is currently working on a project, and monograph, on women in the early years of European integration. She is the founding co-chief editor of PRX, Political Research Exchange, the co-editor of Representation, The Journal of Representative Democracy, and is an elected executive board member of the IPSA RC03 on European Unification.

Henriette Müller is Assistant Professor of Gender, Governance and Society at New York University Abu Dhabi. Her research explores the nexus between gender and political leadership in complex governance systems, both at the national and international levels, with a focus on the European Union, the GCC states, and international organizations. She is the author of Political Leadership and the European Commission Presidency (Oxford University Press, 2020), and editor of Women and Leadership in the European Union (Oxford University Press, 2022; with Ingeborg Tömmel), as well as two special issues on “The Role of Leadership in EU Politics and Policy-Making” (West European Politics, 2020; with Femke A. W. J. van Esch), and “Women Opposition Leaders: Pathways, Patterns and Performance” (Politics and Governance, 2023; with Sarah C. Dingler and Ludger Helms). Her work has appeared in Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World, Journal of European Integration, Politics & Gender, Politics and Governance, West European Politics, and Journal of Common Market Studies: Annual Review.