Ann Florini

Ann Florini is a Fellow in the Political Reform Program at New America; a founding Board Member of the Economics of Mutuality Foundation; a Senior Global Futures Scientist at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, Arizona State University; a Professor of Practice at the Thunderbird School of Global Management NatureFinance and the Task Force on Nature Markets.^{[citation needed]} Until June 2018, she was Professor of Public Policy in the School of Social Sciences at Singapore Management University, where she was Academic Director of the Masters of Tri-Sector Collaboration, and was Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.^[1]

Florini's academic training was at Syracuse University (BA), Princeton (Master's in Public Affairs) and at UCLA (Ph.D. in Political Science 1995).^[2] She was the founding director of the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at the National University of Singapore from 2006 to 2011. Prior to joining Brookings as a Senior Fellow in 2002, Florini was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and from 1996 to 1997 she served as research director of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Project on World Security. ^[3]

Florini has spearheaded numerous international projects, including the Global Governance Initiative on behalf of the World Economic Forum (2000-2005) and the International Task Force on Transparency, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University (2000-2005).

• "China Experiments: From Local Innovations to National Reforms" (with Hairong Lai and Yeling Tan, Brookings Press 2012)
• The Right to Know: Transparency for an Open World (Columbia University Press, May 2007)
• The Coming Democracy: New Rules for Running a New World (Island Press, 2003/Brookings Press 2005)
• The Third Force: The Rise of Transnational Civil Society (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace/Japan Center for International Exchange, 2000)

Her peer-reviewed articles include:

• “The Public Roles of the Private Sector in Asia: The Emerging Research Agenda,” Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies January 2014
• (with Karthik Nachiappan, Tikki Pang, and Christine Pilcavage) “Global Health Governance: Analyzing China, India, and Japan as Global Health Aid Donors,” Global Policy vol.3, no. 3 (September 2012), pp. 336–347.
• (with Benjamin K. Sovacool) “Examining the Complications of Global Energy Governance,” Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law, August 2012.
• (with Navroz K. Dubash) Guest Editors’ Introduction to Special Issue on “Governing Energy in a Fragmented World,” Global Policy 2: S1 (September 2011).
• (with Navroz K. Dubash) “Mapping Global Energy Governance,” Global Policy 2: S1 (September 2011).
• “The International Energy Agency in Global Energy Governance,” Global Policy 2: S1 (September 2011).
• (with Saleena Saleem) “Information Disclosure in Global Energy Governance,” Global Policy 2: S1 (September 2011).
• “Rising Asian Powers and Changing Global Governance,” International Studies Review 13 (Winter 2011), pp. 24–33.
• (with Benjamin K. Sovacool) “Bridging the Gaps in Global Energy Governance,” Global Governance 17:1 (Winter 2011).
• “The National Context for Transparency-based Global Environmental Governance,” Global Environmental Politics, 10:3 (August 2010), pp. 120–131.
• (with Benjamin K. Sovacool) “Who Governs Energy? The Challenges Facing Global Energy Governance,” Energy Policy 37, 2009, pp. 5239–5248.
• “Making Transparency Work,” Global Environmental Politics, 8: 2 (May 2008), pp 14–16.
• “Does the Invisible Hand Need a Transparent Glove?” Proceedings of the 11th Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics (Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2000).
• “Commercial Satellite Imagery Comes of Age,” Issues in Science and Technology 16:1 (Fall 1999).
• “A New Role for Transparency,” Contemporary Security Policy 18:2 (August 1997). Reprinted in Nancy W. Gallagher, ed., Arms Control: New Approaches to Theory and Policy (London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1998).
• “The Evolution of International Norms,” International Studies Quarterly 40 (Fall 1996).
• “The Opening Skies: Third-Party Imaging Satellites and U.S. Security,” International Security, 13:2 (Fall 1988).