Actors and Agency in Global Social Governance

Professor Dr Alexandra Kaasch is Junior Professor in Transnational Social Policy at the University of Bielefeld. Her research interests include global social policy, health policy, and international organisations. She has published both in comparative and global social policy. Among her recent publications are a guest-edited special issue for the journal Global Social Policy (13.1), and a co-edited volume with Paul Stubbs, Transformations in Global andRegional Social Policies (2014). She is editor of the Global Social Policy Digest.Professor Dr Kerstin Martens is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Bremen, Germany. Her research interests include theories of international relations, international organizations, global governance, and global public policy, in particular education and social policy. She heads the research project on 'Internationalization of Education Policy' located at the University of Bremen. She is co-editor of several books, amongst other Internationalization ofEducation Policy? (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan 2014), and Education in Political Science: Discovering a Neglected Field (London & New York: Routledge 2009). She holds a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.