Jody Jensen is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Political Sciences at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She is the director of international relations at the Institute of Social and European Studies which she helped to found. For many years she was the Hungarian and then regional director of the international NGO Ashoka: Innovators for the Public which supports social entrepreneurship around the world. She teaches frequently abroad and also works for the European Commission in Brussels for the Jean Monnet Program and the Erasmus Mundus Program. Her major fields of research and publication include globalization, global governance, transformation of the nation state, governing global markets and global civil society.
Some of her most recent publications include: Reframing Europe’s Future, ed. with Ferenc Miszlivetz, Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2014; Globalizáció es Új Kormányzás, MTA Társadalomtudományi Intézet, Politikatudományi Intézet, Mundus Novus Könyvek, 2014; Global Challenges – European Answers: The Rise of Glocality in Europe, with Ferenc Miszlivetz. Szombathely: Savaria University Press, 2013; Globalizing Governance in a Multi-Stakeholder World. Saarbrucken: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010; From Transition to Globalization: New Challenges for Democracy, the Media and Society, with József Bayer, Budapest: MTA Institute of Political Science, 2007; Europe Bound: Faultlines and Frontlines of Security in the Balkans, Szombathely: Savaria University Press, 2004.
