Alejandro Esguerra is post-doc at the working group Political Sociology, University Bielefeld. He obtained his PhD at the Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies, Freie Universität Berlin in 2014. He has researched and taught at Cornell University, UFZ Leipzig, the Centre for Global Cooperation Research Duisburg as well as the University of Potsdam. His work is concerned with the role of knowledge and practice in International Relations theory, transnational governance in global environmental politics, and innovation in science policy interaction. His most recent publications are, with Silke Beck and Rolf Lidskog, ‘Stakeholder engagement in the making: IPBES legitimization politics’ in Global Environmental Politics, with Nicole Helmerich and Thomas Risse, Sustainability Politics and Limited Statehood: Contesting New Modes of Governance (Palgrave Macmillan 2017), as well as, with Tobias Berger ‘World Politics in Translation: Power, Relationality and Difference in Global Cooperation’ (Routledge 2018).