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Ben Braun, who many people will remember from his time as a PAIS PhD student within the IPE Cluster, was awarded a PSA Thesis Prize at the Political Studies Association’s recent Annual Conference Dinner. This was the Sir Walter Bagehot Prize for the Best PhD in Government and Public Administration for the thesis ‘Central Bank Agency and Monetary Governability in the Euro Area: Governing through Money, Trust and Expectations’. Ben was a GEM School PhD student supervised by Matthew Watson and Amandine Crespy of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He is currently in the second year of a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Köln, and in the last week he has also found out that he will be going to the Center for European Studies at Harvard University next year on an equally prestigious JFK Postdoctoral Fellowship.