Johannes Pollak is Rector and Univ.-Professor of Political Science at the International Relations Department at Webster Vienna Private University and Chairman of the Executive Board of the Institute of European Politics in Berlin. Prior to joining WVPU, he was head of the Head of the Research Group “European Integration” at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) in Vienna (currently on leave). Prior to joining IHS, he was Senior Researcher at the Institute for European Integration Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Jean Monnet Fellow at the Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, EUI Florence, Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Reading (UK) and Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Having studied political science and philosophy at the University of Vienna, he received post-graduate education at the Institute for Advanced Studies and the LSE.

His major areas of research are European integration, theories of political representation, democracy beyond the nation state, European energy politics and parliamentarism.