Sofie Alexandra Barr Heusinger von Waldegg
Position
Higher Executive Officer
Affiliation
Research groups
Short info
Sofie is a Higher Executive Officer at the BCEPS (Bergen Center for Ethics and Priority Setting), Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care. She provides administrative coordination and support for the centre’s projects, particularly FairChoices.
Work
Academic background in comparative politics, with a particular interest in democracy, autocratization, populism, and political institutions. Her master’s thesis examined how right-wing populist leaders can contribute to autocratization, and why some democracies are more resilient to this development than others, through a comparative study of Hungary and Italy.