Oliver Escobar
Oliver Escobar is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at the University of Edinburgh, Academic Lead on Democratic Innovation at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, and former co-director of What Works Scotland. He co-edited the new Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance.
Marjan Ehsassi
Marjan is a believer in the potential of citizen engagement and impactful democratic innovations. A former litigator and international governance expert, she is pursuing a Doctorate in International Affairs at Johns Hopkins with a concentration on Deliberative Mini-Publics.
Teele Pehk
Teele is a democracy artist who organises climate assemblies in Estonia. She promotes governance innovation for the sake of de-growth.
Yago Bermejo Abati
Yago Bermejo Abati works as an independent consultant in the field of democratic innovation involving new architectures with digital participation and deliberative democracy. He is co-founder of deliberativa.org. From 2016 to 19 he has been working in Madrid City Council.
Tim Hughes
Tim is a specialist in public participation, with over a decade of practice, research & capacity building experience. As director of Involve (2017-2021), he advised governments across the UK; facilitated 20+ citizens’ assemblies, juries & panels; & developed guidance & standards.
Wendy Willis
Wendy Willis is the founder and director of Oregon’s Kitchen Table at Portland State University and the Executive Director of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium. Wendy is also a poet and essayist. Her most recent book of essays is These are Strange Times, My Dear.
Marcin Gerwin
Marcin Gerwin, PhD – designs and coordinates citizens’ assemblies. He is a specialist in sustainable development and deliberative democracy. A graduate of political science. Author of the guide to citizens’ assemblies.
Andrea Bernarte
Andrea has been supporting the Bangsamoro peace process in the Philippines since 2016. In 2021, she helped pilot an online citizens’ deliberative forum for constituents suffering from the economic effects of the lockdown.
Ceri Davies
Ceri davis works at the intersection of evidence and practice on citizen engagement with policy making in the context of democratic innovation with a particular interest in the politics of knowledge. She is an Assoc. Editor of Research for All and a Fellow of the RSA.
Democracy Co
At DemocracyCo, we support communities, governments and organisations to find sustainable solutions to some of the biggest and most complex problems of our time: including climate change, community resilience, and rebuilding democratic processes in conflict regions of the world. Our team is a global leader in democratic engagement, with a strong and proud pedigree of […]