Simon Hix

Simon Hix is a British political scientist and is Harold Laski Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is set to join the department of political and social sciences of the European University Institute in September 2021 as Stein Rokkan chair in comparative politics. Hix is an expert in European Union politics, and the author of several books, including "What's Wrong with the European Union and How to Fix It", "Democratic Politics in the European Parliament" with Abdul Noury and Gérard Roland, and "The Political System of the European Union". He is also associate editor of the international peer-reviewed European Union Politics, and founder and chairman of VoteWatch Europe, an influential online EU affairs think-tank founded in London in 2009 that combines big data with political insight. Simon Hix obtained a PhD in Political and Social Science at the European University Institute in Florence in 1995, and lectured in European Politics at Brunel University 1996–97, before joining the LSE in 1997. His main areas of research are voting in parliaments, democratic institutions, and EU politics.
Distinctions.
Simon Hix was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2011. In 2015 he was named the inaugural Harold Laski Chair at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Later that year he was awarded a degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by the National School of Political and Administrative Studies in Bucharest.