Peter Hall - Biography#

Peter A. Hall is Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies in the Department of Government and a Resident Faculty member of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University where he has taught since 1982. He has previously served as Director of the Center for European Studies and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard. For fifteen years, he served as Co-Director of the Program on Successful Societies for the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. His previous positions include Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Karl Deutsch Visiting Professor at the Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin and Visiting Professor at the Instituto Juan March in Madrid. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Center of the European University Institute, the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin, Centre de Sociologie des Organisations, Paris, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, the Russell Sage Foundation in New York, and World Politics Fellow at Princeton University.

Hall’s twelve books include Governing the Economy, The Political Power of Economic Ideas, Varieties of Capitalism (ed. with David Soskice), Successful Societies and Social Resilience in the Neoliberal Era (ed. with Michèle Lamont), Changing France: The Politics That Markets Make (ed. with Pepper Culpepper and Bruno Palier), Political Change and Electoral Coalitions in Western Democracies (with Georgina Evans and Sung In Kim), and he has published more than a hundred articles about European politics, institutional analysis, and comparative political economy. His new book, Governing Growth: The Postwar Transformations of Capitalism and Democracy will be published by Princeton University Press in the fall of 2026. His recent articles focus on the political response to economic challenges in postwar Europe, the economic and cultural roots of populism, and the impact of social institutions on inequalities in health.

Hall has been awarded honorary doctoral degrees by Sciences Po, Paris and Aston University in Birmingham. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has won many awards for his research and teaching, including the Woodrow Wilson Award for the best book published in political science (1987), the Alexander George Award for the best article developing comparative methods (2004), and the Gregory Luebbert Award for the best article in comparative politics (1999) from the American Political Science Association, the Burton Gordon Feldman for lifetime contributions to the study of public policy (2002), and the Aaron Wildavsky Award for a book on public policy of enduring influence (2009). He has recently been named a John Fayerweather Eminent Scholar of the Academy of International Business.