Ann Florini

Ann Florini is a Fellow in the Political Reform Project at New America, where she leads work on rethinking democratic governance for the age of climate volatility. She is also Senior Global Futures Scientist at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Lab, Arizona State University and a founding board member of the Economics of Mutuality Foundation.

Her research, teaching, and consulting address innovations in governance of both the public and private sectors. She has previously taught and led research programs at ASU, the Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the National University of Singapore, Singapore Management University, and the Thunderbird School of Global Management.

Dr. Florini has lectured around the world, including Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Russia, Singapore, Switzerland, Tanzania, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Among her books are China Experiments: From Local Innovation to National Reform (with Hairong Lai and Yeling Tan, Brookings Press 2012); The Right to Know: Transparency for an Open World (Columbia University Press, 2007); The Coming Democracy: New Rules for Running a New World (Island Press, 2003/Brookings Press 2005); and The Third Force: The Rise of Transnational Civil Society (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace/Japan Center for International Exchange, 2000). She has published numerous scholarly and policy articles in such journals as Energy Policy, Foreign Policy, Global Governance, Global Policy, International Security, and International Studies Quarterly.

Dr. Florini received her Ph.D. in Political Science from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a Master's in Public Affairs from School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.