Jonas Tallberg

Jonas Tallberg is Professor of Political Science at Stockholm University and PI of the Stockholm Center on Global Governance – a center of excellence funded by the Swedish Research Council. Tallberg has extensive experience of leading large-scale collaborative research projects and programs. He currently directs the research project “Democracy, Autocracy, and International Cooperation” (DemCoop), funded by the European Research Council, the Swedish Research Council, and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. From 2016 to 2021, he directed the collaborative research program “Legitimacy in Global Governance” (LegGov), funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, and from 2021 to 2024 the interdisciplinary research project “The Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence” (GGAI), funded by the WASP-HS through the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation. Tallberg has won numerous awards for his research, including the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the German Humboldt Foundation in 2012, the JCMS Prize for the best articles in Journal of Common Market Studies in 2000 and 2004, and the Forskraft Award for the best Swedish dissertation on international relations 1998-2003. In 2019, Tallberg was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History, and Antiquities. In 2023, he received the Distinguished Mentor Award of the International Collaboration section of the American Political Science Association. In 2024, he was selected as a Wallenberg Scholar and thus offered long-term funding as one of Sweden's leading researchers. Tallberg has been a visiting researcher at Harvard University, Stanford University, McGill University, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, Centre for Advanced Study in Oslo, and the European Commission.