Andrea Römmele is Professor of Political Communication and Vice President at the Hertie School in Berlin. Her research interests include comparative political communication, political parties, and election campaigns. She was a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Modern German Studies in 2012/13 at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Visiting Fellow at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., and at the Australian National University in Canberra. She was a member of the election campaign teams of Gerhard Schröder and Hillary Clinton. Since 2021, she has had her own democracy report on ARD-alpha, a German public service television channel.