Gaby Umbach is Part-time Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute where she leads the Global Governance Programme’s research area ‘Knowledge, Governance, Transformations’.

At the EUI, she is also Principal of the Interdisciplinary Research Cluster on ‘Expert Knowledge and Authority in Transformative Times’. She is Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute, non-resident Visiting Fellow of the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS), Adjunct Professor at the Universities of Innsbruck and CIFE/LUISS Guido Carli and Visiting External Examiner at the Department for Public Policy, University of Malta. She is Editorial Board member of the ‘International Journal Evaluation and Program Planning’ and Associate Editor of CUP’s ‘Data & Policy’ and Area Advisor for ‘Policy and Literacy for Data’ of the Data for Policy Community. She is also Academic Advisor and Senior Research Fellow  of the Institute for European Politics in Berlin and involved in the EU’s ESPAS Futurium Expert Group on Horizon Scanning. 

Her research focuses on the interaction between knowledge, evidence, data, and governance. She analyses how governance by and of knowledge influence transformations of politics and policies. This includes the analysis of measuring and the use of statistics as governance technique; data-based governance; data and evidence literacy in policy-making; evidence-informed policy-making; multilevel and anticipatory governance: socio-economic as well as eco-social policies: and sustainable development.