Liesbet Hooghe (born December 1, 1962, in Oudenaarde, Belgium) is a Belgian political scientist, currently serving as the W. R. Kenan Jr.
In 2012, she was inducted as a Foreign Member into the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts.
She has written extensively on the European Union and on sub-national government[6] and her publications have been translated in French,[7] German,[8] Spanish, Italian, Romanian, Swedish, and Chinese.
[9] Over the past fifteen years, Liesbet Hooghe, with her spouse Gary Marks, has sought to theorize the conditions of multilevel governance while striving to gain better information.
[10] Much of her research and publications can be categorized under five broad topics: regional authority and multilevel governance; international authority and multilevel governance; party politics and public opinion on European integration; political elites and the European Commission; measurement and data collection.