Professor Jane Gingrich is a Professor of Social Policy at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention (DSPI), University of Oxford and a Senior Research Fellow at Green Templeton College. She was previously Professor of Comparative Political Economy at the Department of Politics and International Relations and Tutorial Fellow at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. Jane’s areas of expertise are Comparative Political Economy and Comparative Social Policy with a particular interest in the contemporary restructuring of the welfare state and the politics of institutional change.