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About Sophia Moestrup
- Sophia Moestrup (born 1964) is a Danish political scientist and scholar, who is the deputy director for Central and West Africa at the National Democratic Institute (NDI), since November 2005.
- Previously, she worked for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Cameroon from 1991 to 1994, was a country representative of Danida in Niger from July 1994 to July 1997, a consultant for the Academy for Educational Development during 2004 and a social development consultant at the World Bank from November 2004 to November 2005, authoring a number of chapters for the World Bank's Social Accountability Sourcebook.
- Moestrup holds B.A and M.A degrees in Economics from the University of Copenhagen, and a Ph.D.
- in political science from the George Washington University.
- Her published work is mainly focused on constitutional developments, democratization and semi-presidentialism.
- She is a regular contributor to the Presidential Power blog on presidential politics in Francophone West Africa.With Robert Elgie she is the editor of Semi-presidentialism outside Europe: A comparative study (Routledge, 2007), Semi-Presidentialism in Central and Eastern Europe (Manchester University Press, 2008), Semi-Presidentialism and Democracy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011; also with Yu-Shan Wu) and Semi-Presidentialism in the Caucasus and Central Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
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