Ania Skrzypek-Claassens, PhD, is Senior Research Fellow at the Foundations for European Progressive Studies (FEPS). Before joining FEPS in 2009, she worked as younger researcher at the Faculty of Journalism and Political Sciences at the University of Warsaw (2003–2009) and also served as twice consecutively elected Secretary General of Young European Socialists (ECOSY, 2005–2009). She is an author of over 80 published papers and articles, available in English, German, French and Polish. Among her responsibilities at FEPS, she is in charge of the Next Left Research Programme, she co-coordinates FEPS Young Academics Network (FEPS YAN), as also she contributes to the FEPS projects of: Next Social Europe, European Transnational Parties and Democratic Empowerment, Ones to Watch, New Global Progressive Construct Convention and the Annual FEPS – Policy Network Oxford Debates.