Dr. Charlotte Halpern holds a PhD in political science and is an FNSP tenured researcher at Sciences Po, Centre for European studies and comparative politics in Paris. She has done extensive research on state restructuring, policy change and the selection of policy instruments, mainly in the field of environmental, transport and urban policies in Europe and South America. Current research projects include CREATE, a European-funded project (Horizon 2020) on "Congestion reduction in Europe" and MEGOWAS (funded under USPC-NUS joint research projects) on the "Metropolitan governance of water  systems".

She has co-edited several books (e.g.,  Policy analysis in France, Policy press, 2018 with P. Hassenteufel and P. Zittoun; Policy  instrumentation, Presses de Sciences Po, 2014 with P. Lascoumes and P. Le Galès), special issues and articles in academic journals (Comparative European Politics; West European Politics; Politique européenne; Espacestemps.net) and chapters in peer-reviewed books. She teaches courses on public policy analysis, comparative urban governance and environmental policies at Sciences Po and AgroParisTech. She is an associated researcher at the Sciences Po research programme Cities are back in town. She has done research stays on several occasions at Nuffield College, Oxford (under the OXPO programme), the  Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Society in Cologne, and the Humboldt University in Berlin. She has been an invited lecturer at the Escuela de Gobierno y Politicas publicas at the PUCP, Lima (Peru), where she is an associate researcher at the Public Policy Research Group  and has contributed to the creation of the Observatorio de políticas públicas para la ciudad.