Christel Koop is Senior Lecturer in Political Economy and Programme Director of the MA Public Policy at the King's College London. Also, she is research associate at the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research interests include delegation theory, regulation and regulatory agencies, democratic accountability and legitimacy, and institutional theory. Christel holds a BA and MPhil degree in political science from Leiden University, the Netherlands, and obtained her PhD degree in political and social sciences from the European University Institute.