Dr Petri Koikkalainen is senior lecturer of political science at the University of Lapland (Rovaniemi, Finland) and adjunct professor of political science at the Universities of Helsinki and Jyväskylä. Since 2015, he is a member of the Executive Committee of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). His research interests include governance, political thought and the history of political science. He has recently published in, e.g., History of Political Thought, History of European Ideas and Journal of the Philosophy of History. He is president of the Finnish Union for University Researchers and Teachers for the years 2015–18