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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. 

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

ManGroup, 2026–present

Academic consultancy