Svanhildur Thorvaldsdottir is a Senior Lecturer in Statistics at the Hertie School. She has previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Political Systems and European Integration at the Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich and as a computational social scientist at the Chair of International Relations at the Hochschule für Politik at the Technical University of Munich. At the LMU, she studied the bureaucracies of international organisations (IOs) as part of the DFG Research Unit “International Public Administration” and at the TUM, she was (and remains) a Co-PI of the CoronaNet Research Project, which is mapping and coding government policies globally in response to Covid-19. She has published articles and book chapters on various aspects of budgeting and finance in international organisations. Svanhildur received her PhD in political science from the University of Rochester in New York and holds a BA degree in political science and a Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University. Prior to her Ph.D. studies, she was a Senior Policy Analyst at the International Peace Institute, a New York-based think tank with strong ties to the United Nations, and a secretary in the Icelandic Foreign Service, serving in the Icelandic Embassy in Washington, D.C.
