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Diane L. Stone (born April 1964) is an Australian-British academic.


Career

Diane Stone has been a founding vice president of the International Public Policy Association for 8 years until June 2022. She is Professor of Global Policy at the European University Institute in th
School of Transnational Governance
Until 2019, she worked at the
University of Warwick The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands (county), West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded i ...
for 23 years. Diane Stone was Foundation Professor of Public Policy at
Central European University Central European University (CEU) is a private research university accredited in Austria, Hungary, and the United States, with campuses in Vienna and Budapest. The university is known for its highly intensive programs in the social sciences and ...
(CEU) in Budapest in 2004, remaining as Visiting Professor from 2008. She returned full time in 2019 to oversee the transition of th
School of Public Policy to Vienna.
In 2012, she became a fellow of the
Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) is an independent, non-governmental organisation devoted to the advancement of knowledge and research in the social sciences. It has its origins in the Social Science Research Council of Austr ...
. Professor Stone is also a Centenary Professor in th
Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis
at the University of Canberra. During 1999, Diane Stone worked at the
World Bank Institute The World Bank Institute is the capacity building branch of the World Bank. It provides learning programs, policy advice and technical assistance to policy makers, government and non-government agencies, and development practitioners of developing c ...
as a member of the Secretariat that launched the Global Development Network. She was an editor of '' Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations''. Until 2020, she was Consulting Editor with ''
Policy & Politics ''Policy & Politics'' is a quarterly British peer-reviewed academic journal covering public policy and political science. It was established in 1972 and is published by the Policy Press of the University of Bristol. Its mission statement says that ...
''. Research and publication has focused on the influence of ideas and expertise in policy making, and especially the impact of think tanks. Other work has focused on policy networks. especially networks sponsored by the World Bank. Recent scholarship addresses the dynamics of global policy making and transnational administration as well as processes of policy translation. At CEU, her research addressed international organisation influences on the transition countries of Central Europe. She also researched international philanthropy in higher education, including that of th
Open Society Foundations.
At Warwick, research and publication addressed the new diplomacy in science, culture and diaspora. Stone was a research leader in the European Commission's EL-CSID consortium on European Leadership in Science Cultural and Innovation Diplomacy Current work addresses the concept of 'epistocracy' and transnational governance.


Book Publications

* ‘Transnational Policy Transfer: Ideas, Power, and Development’, special issue guest edited with Leslie A. Pal and Osmany Porto de Oliveira, Policy & Society. 2020. *''Making Global Policy'', Cambridge University Press, December 2019 * ''Oxford Handbook of Global Policy and Transnational Administration'', with K. Moloney, Oxford University Press, 2019. * ''Policy Experiments, Failures and Innovations: Beyond Accession in Central and Eastern Europe'', with A. Batory and A. Cartwright, Edward Elgar, 2018. * ''Knowledge Actors and Transnational Governance: The Public-Private Policy Nexus in the Global Agora'' Palgrave MacMillan, 2013. * ''The World Bank and Governance: A Decade of Reform and Reaction'', with C. Wright, Routledge, 2006. * ''Global Knowledge Networks and International Development: Bridges Across Boundaries'', with S. Maxwell, Routledge, 2005 * ''Think Tank Traditions: Policy Research and the Politics of Ideas'', with A. Denham (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2004). * ''Banking on Knowledge: The Genesis of the Global Development Network'', London, Routledge, 2000. * ''Think Tanks Across Nations: A Comparative Approach'' (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1998. * ''Capturing the Political Imagination: Think Tanks and the Policy Process'', London: Frank Cass, 1996.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stone, Diane Australian women academics Australian academics British women academics Living people 1964 births Academics of the University of Warwick Academic staff of the University of Canberra Academic staff of Central European University Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Academic journal editors