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El­eni Tsingou

Professor

Subjects
Financial institutions Geopolitics International relations Qualitative methods Health

Primary research areas

Transna­tion­al gov­ernance
The role of reg­u­lat­ory and ex­pert net­works, policy clubs and pro­fes­sion­al groups in shap­ing prac­tices in transna­tion­al gov­ernance, with a spe­cial fo­cus on glob­al fin­ance.
The glob­al anti-money laun­der­ing re­gime
The evolving stand­ards and rules tar­get­ing fin­an­cial crime, with a spe­cial fo­cus on the role of com­pli­ance and the un­in­ten­ded con­sequences of the re­gime.
Gov­ern­ing new mar­kets
Mar­ket emer­gence and health tech­no­logy.

Who wins and who loses in the world eco­nomy? And why?

I study transnational governance, with a recurrent focus on financial governance and the role of expert networks. Empirically, I work primarily on financial policy networks, and on compliance practices and anti-money laundering. I am also developing work on how different expert networks contribute to market emergence and cross-border governance in reproductive health provision and on the developing ecosystem of private investment in women’s health. 

  
I am currently the CBS Principal Investigator of a European Commission Horizon Europe programme grant: ‘NAVIGATOR: The EU Navigating Multilateral Cooperation’. Other research has been supported by the Velux Foundation, the Norwegian Research Council and the Horizon 2020 programme. 

 
At CBS, I am on the Global Relations study board. I am also a mentor and supervisor to Assistant Professors as part of the Higher Education Teaching Excellence Programme. 
 

I am an Editor of Socio-Economic Review and serve on the International Advisory Board of the Review of International Political Economy. 

Publications

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June 2025

Investment Narratives in Women's Health

Insights on ‘Tech for Good’ from a New Market

Ele­ni Tsingou, Professor

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2025

Blame Game

Illicit Finance, De-Risking, and the Politics of Private Financial Infrastructure

Mark Nance

Ele­ni Tsingou, Professor

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January 2024

Outsourcing Authority in Global Policy

Legitimating the Anti-Money Laundering Regime through Professionalization

Ele­ni Tsingou, Professor

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Recent research projects

‘NAV­IG­AT­OR: The EU Nav­ig­at­ing Mul­ti­lat­er­al Co­oper­a­tion - European Com­mis­sion Ho­ri­zon Europe pro­gramme grant

European Com­mis­sion Ho­ri­zon Europe pro­gramme grant
How should the EU shall nav­ig­ate the in­creas­ingly com­plex – and con­flict-laden – in­sti­tu­tion­al spaces of glob­al gov­ernance to ad­vance a rules-based in­ter­na­tion­al or­der? What factors should be em­phas­ized when con­sid­er­ing which in­sti­tu­tions to strengthen, which to re­form, and which to by-pass when re­vital­iz­ing mul­ti­lat­er­al­ism?

NAV­IG­AT­OR’s main ob­ject­ive is to provide an­swer to these ques­tions. The CBS team looks spe­cific­ally at the is­sue areas of green fin­ance and cross-bor­der fin­an­cial flows
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Outside activities

United Na­tions Of­fice on Drugs and Crime , 2024 - 2025

Pro­gramme eval­u­ation con­sult­ant

Nor­we­gi­an In­sti­tute of In­ter­na­tion­al Af­fairs , 2018 - 2022

Seni­or Re­search­er, ‘Mar­ket for An­archy’ pro­ject