Wolfgang Merkel  has been Director of the department “Democracy and Democratisation” at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB) and Professor of Political Science at the Humboldt University Berlin from 2004-2020. Since 2021 he has served as a senior scholar at the Democracy Institute/ CEU in Budapest. His recent books in English include: (jointly edited with Lührmann, Anna) Resilience of Democracies: responses to illiberal and authoritarian challenges, Special Issue of “Democratization”, 2021 (28) 5; Democracy and Crisis. Challenges in Turbulent Times (ed., together with Sascha Kneip and Bernhard Wessels 2020).