Dr G.C. van der Kamp-Alons (Gerry)

Gerry van der Kamp-Alons is Associate Professor of Sustainable Agri-Food Governance at the Political Science Department of Radboud University. Her research focuses on questions of when and how ideational variables such as norms, policy frames and policy paradigms influence state preferences and foreign policy. Empirically, her research focuses on global food policy and governance from a political economy and public policy perspectives, with special attention to how sustainability objectives are integrated in these policies. She has extensive expertise with respect to the EU's Common Agricultural Policy and agriculture related aspects of trade negotiations on FTAs and in the WTO. Her work is published in renowned international journals such as the Journal of European Public Policy, West European Politics and Sociologia Ruralis.
Apart from her work for Radboud University, Gerry also worked as knowledge coordinator for the Committee on European Affairs in the Dutch House of Parliament. She values sharing knowledge and research results outside academia to support informed societal debate and policy making.

Gerry is co-editor of the Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, co-coordinator of the Faculty’s research hotspot European Politics Administration and Law (EUROPAL), and member of the Board of the ECPR Research Network on Food Policy and Governance.