Filippa Chatzistavrou is a full time Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Policy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens where she lectures among others on political science, comparative and European politics, interest groups theory and globalization. She has a PhD in Political Science (I.K.Y. Scholarship) from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. She holds a master's degree in Comparative Politics from the School of Law and Political Sciences of the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and a degree in Law from the School of Law and Economic Sciences of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In the past she has taught at the undergraduate and postgraduate level, among others, at the University of Paris VII Denis-Diderot, the IEP-Sciences Po Strasbourg. She was a postdoctoral researcher ("Fernand Braudel" Fellowship - Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (MSH), Fondation Robert Schuman research grant and NATO scientific research grant) at the research center for Comparative Analysis of Political Systems of the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and researcher at the center European Political Sociology GSPE – CNRS (IEP-Sciences Po Strasbourg). She has participated and participates as a researcher or coordinator in European research programs and European Action programs (Horizon 2020 programs, Erasmus+, Jean Monnet Actions). Currently, she is the coordinator of the Jean Monnet Module "Citizen lobbying and policy change in Europe" 2023-2025. She has published numerous articles in collective volumes and peer-reviewed journals. Her most recent book analyses interest intermediation structures and normative frameworks in order to evaluate the role of lobbying in shaping public policy. As a Fulbright Scholar and visiting researcher at UC Berkeley University, Filippa Chatzistavrou will conduct research on Political Capitalism and repertoires of business action in the US. The objective of the project is to place the interaction of market dynamics and state capacities in the center of research interest, thus facilitating a better understanding of contemporary political capitalism through the study of the U.S. case. The intent of the research leave in the U.S. is to pursue research into the most contemporary aspects, political, regulatory, sociological and cultural, of the phenomenon in a country with a long scholar tradition in this field.