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Chris Ansell is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published extensively on governance, organisation theory, network analysis and regulation and is the author of Pragmatist democracy: Evolutionary learning as public philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2011).
Esther Conrad is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford Law Schools Gould Center for Conflict Resolution. Her PhD dissertation at UC Berkeley focused on collective learning in the context of regional-scale collaborative governance within Californias Integrated Regional Water Management process.
Bodil Damgaard is Associate Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Social Science and Business at Roskilde University. Her research focuses on governance and network management in the field of employment policy.
Lisa Dellmuth is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Stockholm School of Economics and the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University. Her research focuses on transnational actors in global governance with an emphasis on global environmental governance.
Torbjrn Einarsson is a researcher in the Center for Civil Society Studies at the Stockholm School of Economics. His research examines the societal significance of civil society organisations and governance in complex multi-level associations such as confederations and federations.
Ben Farr-Wharton is a lecturer in the UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. His research examines the factors that influence the relationships between employees and their managers in public and health care sector contexts, and the impact this has on work outcomes.
Robyn Keast is a professor in the School of Business and Tourism, Southern Cross University, Australia. She researches networked arrangements and collaborative practice and currently focuses on understanding micro-processes and longevity factors shaping design and investment decisions in collaborative research networks.
Charles Kirschbaum is Assistant Professor and Dean of the Professional Masters in Business Administration program at Brazils Institute of Education and Research (Insper). His research focuses on organisational sociology and investigates the intersection between markets, networks and institutional fields.
Christopher Koliba is Professor in the Community Development and Applied Economics Department at the University of Vermont and Director of UVMs MPA program. His research interests include environmental governance, governance networks, community resilience, network performance and accountability.
Eliza W.Y. Lee is professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration and Director of the Centre for Civil Society and Governance, The University of Hong Kong. She is the lead author of Public Policymaking in Hong Kong: Civic engagement and state-society relations in a semi-democracy (London: Routledge, 2013).
Jack Meek is Professor of Public Administration at the College of Business and Public Management at the University of La Verne. His research focuses on metropolitan governance including the emergence of administrative connections and relationships in local government, regional collaboration and partnerships, policy networks and citizen engagement.
Achim Oberg is Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. He is a specialist in social network analysis and his research investigates organisational networks and network governance.
Juan Manuel Restrepo is a PhD candidate in Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong and co-founder and co-director of Low Carbon City, a citizen-led global platform building collective solutions to tackle climate change in cities. His research interests lie in the areas of collective governance, scaling-up social innovation, and urban sustainability.
Kerstin Sahlin is Professor of Public Management in the Department of Business Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. Professor Sahlin has published widely in the fields of organisational institutionalism, public sector reforms, transnational regulation, the global expansion of management ideas, and the development of global standards and regulations.
Anna Schulz is a graduate research assistant in the Community Development and Applied Economics Department at the University of Vermont. Her research focuses on how transportation governance networks assess resilience, primarily as it relates to flooding. She is currently collecting and analysing data on how New England states prioritise and fund bridge projects.
