Lyn Carson
Lyn Carson (“Carson” to those who know her) is Research Director at The newDemocracy Foundation in Australia, where her work includes developing newDemocracy’s collection of R&D notes and a series of podcasts on deliberative democracy. She is also a Director (Board member) at newDemocracy. There would be no Democracy R&D network without Carson. She came […]
Ieva Cesnulaityte
Ieva Cesnulaityte explores the intersection of deliberative democracy, democratic resilience, and collective trauma. Currently she advises on the design and implementation of the first citizens’ assembly in Vilnius, Lithuania. She is one of the 2023/2024 Europe’s Futures Fellows at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) and ERSTE Foundation. Currently she is a senior advisor and […]
Tatsuro Sakano
In 1987, received Doctor of Engineering from the Department of Systems Science at Tokyo Institute of Technology. In 1991-92, Fulbright Research Fellow at Graduate School of Public Affairs, New York University. From 1996, Associate Professor at School of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology. From 2014, Professor at School of Environment and Society […]
Marjan Ehsassi
Marjan H. Ehsassi is the Executive Director of FIDE NA (the Federation for Innovation in Democracy North America). She is also a Future of Democracy Fellow (non-resident) at the Berggruen Institute and a Senior Innovations Fellow at the Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability (IDEA at OSU). A former litigator, she is a skilled advocate, […]
Jane Mansbridge
Jane Mansbridge, Charles F. Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, is the author of Beyond Adversary Democracy, an empirical and normative study of face-to-face democracy, and the award-winning Why We Lost the ERA, a study of anti-deliberative dynamics in social movements based on organizing for an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. […]
David Van Reybrouck
As a chairholder David will hold the distinguished Arne Næss lecture at Oslo University’s Festive Hall end of August and engage with graduate and postgraduate students. Former chairholders include Nobel Prize laureate Olga Tokarczuk, economist Jason Hickel (degrowth), Polly Higgins (who coined the term ‘ecocide’), French politician Eva Joly, British sociologist Anthony Giddens, American philosopher […]
Sanskriti Menon
Dr Sanskriti Menon is a Senior Programme Director at the Centre for Environment Education (CEE), India. Sanskriti has over 3 decades of experience in education for sustainable development, engaging with formal education systems, communities, civil society organizations, and government agencies. Sanskriti leads a team at CEE focussed on the development of deliberative democracy, consequent to […]
Alice Siu
Alice Siu is Associate Director of the Deliberative Democracy Lab and Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Democracy, Development, and Rule of Law housed at the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Communication at Stanford University, with a focus in political communication, deliberative democracy, and public […]
Graham Smith
I am Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD) in the Department of Politics and International Relations. My main research interests are in democratic theory and practice (particularly participatory democratic institutions), climate politics and the third sector/social economy. Previously I was Professor of Politics and Head of Department […]
Mauricio Mejía
Mauricio Mejia leads the work on citizen participation and digital democracy in the Open Government Unit at the OECD. His work focuses on supporting countries in building better and more impactful ways to involve citizens, including through deliberative processes and the use of digital and emerging technologies. Mauricio also oversees the OECD work on digital […]