#  Brief Biography 

 



**Peter A. Hall is Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies in the Department of Government at Harvard and a resident faculty member of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.**

His previous positions include Associate Dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center and Co-Director of the CIFAR Program on Successful Societies. Hall is the author or editor of twelve books including most recently *Governing Growth: The Postwar Transformations of Capitalism and Democracy* (Princeton University Press, 2026) and *Political Change and Electoral Coalitions in Western Democracies* (with Georgina Evans and Sung In Kim - Cambridge University Press 2023). His prior publications include *Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage* (with David Soskice, 2001), *The Political Power of Economic Ideas: Keynesianism across Nations* (1989), *Governing the Economy: The Politics of State Intervention in Britain and France* (1986) and more than a hundred articles on European politics and comparative political economy.

Hall is a Fellow of the British Academy, an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Academia Europaea He has been awarded many prizes for his scholarly work and several honorary degrees. He is currently working on the economic and cultural roots of populism, the impact of social institutions on inequalities in health and well-being, and the political economy of opportunity in the knowledge economy.

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