Vera Troeger is Professor of Quantitative Political Science at the Economics Department and the Department for Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. She joined CAGE (Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy) in August 2011 in order to strengthen the multidisciplinary profile of the Centre and bring closer together research and scholars from rigorous political science and economics in areas such as globalization and political economy. Vera is the editor-in-chief of the recently launched journal Political Science Research and Methods (PSRM).