Lorenzo Cicchi (PhD IMT Lucca, 2013) is co-director of the European Governance and Politics Programme (EGPP) since 2024, having served as coordinator since the programme's foundation in 2018. Alongside the programme's other co-directors, he steers EGPP's strategic direction while overseeing its day-to-day management. He has been involved in numerous research projects, from grant application to implementation—including INFOPOLDEM, INFOREPOL, REGROUP, InDivEU, and DiCE—and has contributed to a wide range of research and impact outputs, such as EU&I 2024, euandi2019, Spaceu2019, the EUI-YouGov Solidarity in Europe project, and Narrating Covid-19. His research interests lie in European Union politics and institutions, with a particular focus on the European Parliament, political parties, elections and electoral systems, voting behaviour, voting advice applications (VAAs), and affective polarization.

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