Susan D. Hyde is a Professor of Political Science and Robson Chair at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has served as the co-director of the Institute of International Studies (2021-present), Chair of the Department of Political Science (AY 2021–2014), and the elected Executive Director of the Evidence in Governance and Politics Research Network (2016–2018). Prior to joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, she was a professor at Yale University from 2006–2016, and held residential fellowships at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. and Princeton University’s Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance. Her work has been published widely on international norms, democracy promotion, global governance, and the global diffusion of elections and threats to democracy.