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. 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.

Biography

Florini's academic training was at Syracuse University, Princeton and at UCLA. 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.
Florini has spearheaded numerous international projects, including the Global Governance Initiative on behalf of the World Economic Forum and the International Task Force on Transparency, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University.

Books

  • "China Experiments: From Local Innovations to National Reforms" The Right to Know: Transparency for an Open World The Coming Democracy: New Rules for Running a New World The Third Force: The Rise of Transnational Civil Society''

Articles

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
  • “Global Health Governance: Analyzing China, India, and Japan as Global Health Aid Donors,” Global Policy vol.3, no. 3, pp. 336–347.
  • “Examining the Complications of Global Energy Governance,” Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law, August 2012.
  • Guest Editors’ Introduction to Special Issue on “Governing Energy in a Fragmented World,” Global Policy 2: S1.
  • “Mapping Global Energy Governance,” Global Policy 2: S1.
  • “The International Energy Agency in Global Energy Governance,” Global Policy 2: S1.
  • “Information Disclosure in Global Energy Governance,” Global Policy 2: S1.
  • “Rising Asian Powers and Changing Global Governance,” International Studies Review 13, pp. 24–33.
  • “Bridging the Gaps in Global Energy Governance,” Global Governance 17:1.
  • “The National Context for Transparency-based Global Environmental Governance,” Global Environmental Politics, 10:3, pp. 120–131.
  • “Who Governs Energy? The Challenges Facing Global Energy Governance,” Energy Policy 37, 2009, pp. 5239–5248.
  • “Making Transparency Work,” Global Environmental Politics, 8: 2, pp 14–16.
  • “Does the Invisible Hand Need a Transparent Glove?” Proceedings of the 11th Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics.
  • “Commercial Satellite Imagery Comes of Age,” Issues in Science and Technology 16:1.
  • “A New Role for Transparency,” Contemporary Security Policy 18:2. Reprinted in Nancy W. Gallagher, ed., Arms Control: New Approaches to Theory and Policy.
  • “The Evolution of International Norms,” International Studies Quarterly 40.
  • “The Opening Skies: Third-Party Imaging Satellites and U.S. Security,” International Security, 13:2.