Professor Petra Schleiter is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Oxford.
Currently, she leads the University of Oxford’s initiative to establish the Centre for Democratic Resilience, building on over 15 years of senior research and academic leadership experience.
With more than 60 publications, Petra is a prominent scholar in the field of democratic institutions and institutional reform, party competition, and policy reform.
She regularly serves as an expert witness to policy makers and advised the Irish Citizens Assembly in 2018.
Her contributions have been recognised by elections to fellowships by the Institute of Advanced Studies in Berlin (2024-25), AxPo (Sciences Po, Paris) (2026), and the Constitution Unit of University College London (2015-present) among others.