[3] Empirically, much of her work focuses on the contours of private military contractors,[4] drones,[5] and the politics of knowledge in a digital context.
[6] Leander has supported the development of International Political Sociology as an editor, through engagement with professional organizations and research evaluation as well as through her investment with education.
Anna Leander was associate editor of International Political Sociology until 2017 and is currently associate editor of Security Dialogue and Contexto Internacional and co-editor of the Routledge Series in Private Security Studies.
Leander has served on the Norwegian and Swedish Research Councils, numerous research evaluation boards as well as on the advisory boards of DIIS, the Danish Institute for International Studies and the German Institute for Global and Area Studies.
Leander is of Franco-Swedish origins and began her education at the Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris before pursuing graduate studies at the London School of Economics, London and receiving her PhD from the European University Institute, Florence in 1997.