Talk:Catherine Fieschi

COI edit request: update lead and current affiliations

I am Catherine Fieschi, the subject of this article, and therefore have a conflict of interest. I am requesting this change rather than editing the article directly.

Please replace the current lead (all text before the “Education” heading) with the following:

Catherine Fieschi is a Franco-British (and Canadian) political analyst, academic, and author whose work focuses on European politics, populism, political risk, and the international implications of domestic political change. She is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe and was a visiting fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute between 2022 and 2026. Fieschi was previously director of the British think tank Demos, director of research at the British Council, and founder and director of the research organisation Counterpoint. She is the author of Fascism, Populism and the French Fifth Republic: In the Shadow of Democracy (2004) and Populocracy: The Tyranny of Authenticity and the Rise of Populism (2019).

The current lead presents Counterpoint as my principal current affiliation and does not reflect my more recent institutional affiliations or work. The proposed wording is intended to remain concise and neutral.

Thank you. Willeminadilavagna (talk) 16:23, 21 September 2026 (UTC)

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COI edit request: add post-2020 career information

I am Catherine Fieschi, the subject of this article, and therefore have a conflict of interest. I am requesting this change rather than editing the article directly.

Please insert the following two paragraphs at the end of the “Career” section, after the paragraph about Queen Mary University of London:

By 2023, Fieschi was director of policy and strategic outreach at the Open Society Foundations, focusing on Europe and Central Asia. She subsequently became a visiting fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute and a senior adviser to Macro Advisory Partners.

In 2026, Fieschi was a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe. Her work on strategic foresight has included a masterclass hosted by the OECD on using comparative politics as a method for anticipating political change.

This would bring the career chronology beyond 2019 using an independent source for the Open Society Foundations role and institutional sources for the later affiliations and work.

Thank you. Willeminadilavagna (talk) 16:24, 21 September 2026 (UTC)

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COI edit request: add recent strategic and foreign-policy work

I am Catherine Fieschi, the subject of this article, and therefore have a conflict of interest. I am requesting this change rather than editing the article directly.

Please add the following paragraph at the end of the “Approach and expertise” section:

Fieschi's later work has included strategic foresight and international affairs. Fieschi has been advising governments of the impact of populism on foreign policy, and in 2022, she wrote for Chatham House on why Europe had failed to anticipate Russia's invasion of Ukraine. In a 2025 OECD masterclass, she presented comparative political analysis as a method of strategic foresight. In 2026, she published a Carnegie Europe report examining the foreign-policy positions of France's National Rally.

The existing section covers comparative methodology and the scholarship on populism but stops in 2019. This addition describes the subsequent development through specific, published work rather than making a general claim about a change in expertise.

Thank you. Willeminadilavagna (talk) 16:27, 21 September 2026 (UTC)

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