Danai Koltsida is a lawyer and political scientist, currently the Director of Nicos Poulantzas Institute and Vice-President of the Transform! Europe Network. She has worked as a lawyer, as a policy consultant in the fields of electoral engineering, local and regional government and public administration reform and in political polling. She has been member of the National Commission for Human Rights and a member of various experts and administrative committees (on the reform of the Local and Regional Government, on the electoral participation of the Greek Diaspora etc.).
Her research work focuses on political representation in its various aspects: study of political personnel, legislation and institutional reforms concerning the function of the party system, electoral behaviour and electoral legislation. She recently edited (with Amieke Bouma and Cornelia Hildebrandt) the volume Radical in Diversity. Europe’s Left 2010-2020 (Merlin Press, 2021) and she regularly participates in edited volumes or publishes research and policy papers for Nicos Poulantzas Institute and Transform! Europe Network.
She is also a member of the Central Committee and the Political Secretariat of SYRIZA Progressive Alliance and she is responsible for International and European Affairs.