Henriette Müller is Visiting Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies at New York University Abu Dhabi. Her research encompasses the comparative study of leadership and executive politics both at the national and international level and across regime types and diverse cultural regions. At NYUAD, Müller teaches and conducts comparative research on women and leadership, emphasizing the European Union and the Arab Gulf region. Her publications include Political Leadership and the European Commission Presidency (OUP, 2020) and her research has appeared in Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World, the Journal of European Integration, and West European Politics.

Ingeborg Tömmel is Professor Emeritus in International and European Politics and Jean Monnet Chair at the University of Osnabrück. She is holder of the Diefenbaker-Award 2005/06 of the Canadian Council. Her research focuses on the political system of the EU, European governance and policymaking, implementation of EU policies in the member states, the European neighborhood policy towards the Mediterranean, and political leadership in the EU. Her publications include Political Leadership in the European Union (with Amy Verdun, Taylor and Francis, 2019) and she has published in numerous scholarly journals such as the Journal of Common Market Studies, the Journal of European Integration, and West European Politics.

• Introduction: The State of Women's Leadership in the European Union


• Part I: Conceptual Approaches to Women and Leadership in the EU


• 1: Henriette Müller and Ingeborg Tömmel: Women and Leadership in the European Union: A Framework for Analysis


• 2: Gabriele Abels and Heather MacRae: Searching for Agency: Gendering Leadership in European Integration Theory


• Part II: Accessing Positional Leadership in EU Institutions


• 3: Miriam Hartlapp and Agnes Blome: Women's Positional Leadership in the European Commission: When, Where, and How?


• 4: Sarah C. Dingler and Jessica Fortin-Rittberger: Women's Leadership in the European Parliament: A Long-Term Perspective


• Part III: Exercising Political Leadership


• 5: Michelle Cini: Women and Leadership across the EU Institutions: The Case of Viviane Reding


• 6: Maria Giulia Amadio Viceré and Giulia Tercovich: Women on Mars: The Two Post-Lisbon High Representatives and EU Foreign Policy on Libya


• 7: Henriette Müller and Pamela Pansardi: Rhetoric and Leadership: A Comparison of Female Vice-Presidents of the European Commission (1999-2019)


• 8: Johanna Kantola and Cherry Miller: Gendered Leadership in the European Parliament's Political Groups


• Part IV: National Leaders in European Arenas


• 9: Karen Beckwith: Becoming Prime Minister: Women and Executive Power in EU Member States


• 10: Femke A. W. J. van Esch and Christoph Erasmy: Winning by Spending Leadership Capital? Angela Merkel's Approach to the Refugee and COVID-19 Crises


• 11: Sandra Eckert and Charlotte Galpin: Theresa May's Leadership in Brexit Negotiations: Self-Representation and Media Evaluations


• Part V: Exercising Administrative Leadership


• 12: Ingeborg Tömmel: A Tightrope Walk? Catherine Day and the Interplay of Political and Administrative Leadership in the European Commission


• 13: Eva G. Heidbreder: Women EU Multilevel Administration: The Europeanization of Member State Bureaucracies


• Part VI: Exercising Expert Leadership


• 14: Jessica Guth: The Court of Justice of the European Union, Gender, and Leadership


• 15: Amy Verdun: Women's Leadership in the European Central Bank


• Part VII: Looking Ahead: The Future of Women's Leadership in the EU


• 16: Henriette Müller and Ingeborg Tömmel: Strategic Leadership: Ursula von der Leyen as President of the European Commission


• Appendix: Women and Leadership in the European Union