Lucia Kovacikova’s research focuses on paradiplomacy, subnational capacity, and international economic development policies of advanced industrialized states and their substate governments. Her postdoctoral research project examines the link between citizens’ attitudes and values captured in the most recent World Values Survey (Wave 7) and the growing trend of paradiplomacy within Canada and across the OECD more broadly.

Ph.D. in Political Science from Tulane University, M.A. in Political Science from Tulane University, M.Sc. in Political Science from the University of Amsterdam, B.A. in International Relations from the University of Calgary