Prof. Dr. Lukas Hakelberg

Lukas Hakelberg is Professor for Political Economy at the Institute for Political Science at Leuphana University. His research interests lie at the intersection of Global, Comparative, and Historical Political Economy. His main object of study is the impact of global, societal, and historical factors on state financing. In particular, Hakelberg has analyzed the role of power and hegemony in negotiating global tax agreements. He also leads an ERC project group, analyzing the impact of colonial economic structures and racism on the emergence of tax havens in the Global South. 

Before coming to Leuphana, Lukas Hakelberg was a postdoctoral researcher at the Otto-Suhr-Institute for Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin and in the Horizon 2020 project „Combatting Fiscal Fraud and Empowering Regulators (COFFERS)“ at the University of Bamberg. He defended his PhD in Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence in November 2016. Before joining the EUI’s PhD program, Hakelberg was a Blue Book Trainee with the Middle East unit of the European External Action Service (EEAS) in Brussels and a research fellow with the Center for Environmental Policy at FU Berlin. He holds a master’s degree in Political Science from Freie Universität Berlin and a Diploma in European Affairs from Sciences Po Paris.