Innovative Citizen ParticipationNETWORK MEMBERS

Yago Bermejo is the Head of the Collective Intelligence forDemocracy Lab (Participa Lab) and Co-ordinator of theproject connecting Medialab-Prado with the OpenGovernment, Participation and Transparency Area inMadrid City. Most of the work in Participa Lab is related toDecide Madrid, the direct citizen participatory platform ofMadrid City Council. Previously he has been working atLaboDemo.net, an organisation focused on Internetdemocracy created after 15M movement.

YAGO BERMEJO ABATI @iacocoba

Eddy Adams is an expert in urban social innovation andgovernance. He is a Programme Expert with URBACT, UrbanInnovative Actions and the EU Urban DevelopmentNetwork. Eddy moderates the Cities Forum for the EuropeanCommission and is a member of the Urban Agenda for theEU Partnership on Jobs and Skills. Current work includesexpert input to Bridge, Rotterdam’s Next Economy and skillsproject, collaboration with Athens on their EuropeanInnovation Capital activities and work with Madrid aroundtheir pioneering civic governance platform.

EDDY ADAMS@Eddyca1

ALBERTO ALEMANNO

Alberto Alemanno is the Jean Monnet Professor in EuropeanUnion Law and Policy at HEC Paris. He is also Global ClinicalProfessor at New York University School of Law and a scholarat the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law atGeorgetown University Law Center. He is one of the leadingexperts in the areas of EU law and policy, participatorydemocracy, theory of regulation, transparency and opengovernment. He regularly publishes in Politico, Bloomberg,The Guardian and Le Monde. His latest book is Lobbying forChange: Find Your Voice to Create a Better Society.

@alemannoEU

JONATHAN ALEXANDER

Jon Alexander is Co-Founder of the New Citizenship Project, aconsultancy founded as a vehicle to bring the skills of thecreative industries to bear on inspiring people to claim theiragency in society as citizens instead of just selling stuff topeople as consumers. As a result of his decade-long inquiryinto the concepts of Consumer and Citizen from variousangles, he holds three Masters degrees.

@jonjalex

Sarah became Head of Engagement at Involve inNovember 2017. She splits her time between thedevelopment and delivery of participation projects, andleading Involve’s external affairs team. Sarah’s work hasincluded the Citizens Assembly on Brexit, Citizens'Assembly on Social Care, MH:2K – Involve’s youth-ledproject on mental health, and working with the Housesof Parliament and National Assembly for Wales.

SARAH ALLAN@SarahAllanUK

karine.badr@oecd.orgKARINE BADR

Karine Badr is a Policy Analyst at the OECD’s OpenGovernment Unit. She works with reformers inside and outsidegovernment to strengthen transparency, participation,integrity and accountability in policy making and servicedelivery. She is a former UNDP anti-corruption analyst havingworked with MENA countries during the Arab Spring. Shecurrently focuses on the role of public communication foropen government principles.

@KBlb111

Theo is working on public engagement in climateresearch, place-based innovation & citizen science at UKResearch & Innovation. Previously he was a SeniorResearcher in Nesta's Research, Analysis and Policy Team.His primary interests lie in the role of ICTs in improvingcitizen engagement, and how data and technology arechanging the nature of policy making and democracy.Theo also runs a monthly newsletter for public sectorinnovators called Lab Notes. Prior to Nesta he worked at thethink tank Demos and the mental health charity Blue Smilein Cambridge.

THEO BASS@theo_bass

TONU BASU

Tonu is Lead, Thematic Priorities at Open GovernmentPartnership, mobilising partnerships and cross-countrycoalitions to promote sectoral reforms in OGP membercountries. Tonu has consulted on international opengovernment projects, including with Transparency forDevelopment at the Harvard Kennedy School, UN Women,and the World Bank. She was part of the coalition leadingIndia’s grassroots Right to Information campaign and serveson the founding Board of Satark Nagrik Sangathan (CitizensVigilance Coalition) India, that promotes citizen participationengaging marginalised communities.

@TonuBasu

Alessandro Bellantoni joined the OECD in 2009, where he isthe Deputy Head of the Governance Reviews andPartnerships Division and the Head of the OpenGovernment Unit. Previously, he worked in the Ministry ofPublic Administration and Innovation of Italy, for the UnitedNations (WFP and ILO), and in civil society. He is agraduate of International Affairs from the John CabotUniversity of Rome and holds a Master of Science degreein Social Anthropology and Development Studies from theLondon School of Economics and Political Science of theUniversity of London.

ALESSANDRO BELLANTONI@AlesBellantonialessandro.bellantoni@oecd.org

JAVIER BIKANDI

Javier has been working as Director of Public Innovation ofthe Basque Government since 2013. He is also the Presidentof the Basque Committee of Access to Information. PreviouslyJavier worked as Innovation Manager at Basque HealthcareFoundation. He holds a PhD in Psychology.

@jbikandi

Jessica is the Director of the Electoral Reform Society inWales, which campaigns for better democracy. Their workover the last year has focused on increasing politicalengagement, diversity and political education. PreviouslyJess was Policy and Projects Manager at the Institute ofWelsh Affairs, a leading Welsh think tank where she wasalso Acting Director during 2016. Prior to that Jess worked inthe National Assembly for Wales, writing policy for apolitical party.

JESSICA BLAIR@JessBlair7

JAN BOELEN

Jan Boelen is the Artistic Director of Z33 House forContemporary Art in Hasselt, Belgium, Artistic Director ofAtelier LUMA, an experimental laboratory for design in Arles,France, and Curator of the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial (22Sep–4 Nov 2018) in Istanbul, Turkey. He was the head of theMaster department Social Design at Design AcademyEindhoven in the Netherlands from 2010-2019. Jan is the newDirector of Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG).

@janboelen

Stephen Boucher is the Founder of Dreamocracy, aconsultancy / think tank on collective intelligence anddemocracy. Previously, he was Managing Director ofFondation EURACTIV, CEO of consoGlobe.com, France’slargest online media on sustainable lifestyles, co-secretary general of the Jacques Delors Institute. Heteaches on matters related to future studies, policyinnovation, civic tech and political influence at SciencesPo in Paris, at the Solvay Brussels School and at theInstitute of European Studies (ULB).

STEPHEN BOUCHER@StephenBoucher

Eric is an officer of the French Parliament. He previously wasDeputy Secretary General of the High Authority for theTransparency of Public Life (HATVP). He has published onconstitutional law, transparency and democratic institutionsincluding the book Droit de la vie politique’ (2018).

ERIC BUGE@e_buge

DIDIER CALUWAERTS

Didier Caluwaerts is Assistant Professor of Political Science atthe Vrije Universiteit Brussel. His research interests includedemocratic innovations, with a particular emphasis ondeliberative and participatory democracy in deeply dividedsocieties. In 2013-2014, he was a Democracy Fellow at theHarvard Ash Center for Democratic Governance andInnovation, and in 2011, he co-organised the G1000 Citizens'Summit in Belgium. With Min Reuchamps, he published thebook The Legitimacy of Citizen-Led Deliberative Democracy:The G1000 in Belgium (Routledge, 2018).

Lyn Carson is the Research Director with ThenewDemocracy Foundation in Australia. She is a formerprofessor in applied politics at the University of SydneyBusiness School, currently an honorary professor with theUnited States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney,adjunct professor with the University of Western Sydney,and associate of the Centre for Deliberative Democracy &Global Governance at the University of Canberra. She haswritten handbooks on community engagement and manyarticles and book chapters on public participation anddeliberative methods.

LYN CARSON@activedemocracy

ieva.cesnulaityte@oecd.orgIEVA CESNULAITYTE

Ieva contributes to the work on innovative citizenparticipation and innovative citizen participation at theOECD’s Open Government Unit. Previously she co-ordinatedLithuania’s participation in the Open Government Partnershipinitiative and worked on the development andimplementation of methodology and practice of publicconsultations across government institutions. Ieva is also aCo-Founder of a social initiative aimed at reducing socialexclusion of the elderly and promoting sustainable andhealthy lifestyles amongst young people through gardensharing.

@ICesnulaityte

Claudia Chwalisz is an expert on democratic innovation,deliberative democracy, populism, and comparativepolitical economy. She is a Policy Analyst in the OECD’sOpen Government Unit, managing the area of work oninnovative citizen participation. She also contributes toCarnegie Europe’s Reshaping European DemocracyProject and mentored the 2019 Social Design mastersstudents at the Design Academy Eindhoven. Her booksinclude The People’s Verdict: Adding Informed CitizenVoices to Public Decision-making and The Populist Signal:Why Politics and Democracy Need to Change.

CLAUDIA CHWALISZ@ClaudiaChwalisz

ED COX

Ed Cox is Director of Public Services and Communities at theRoyal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturesand Commerce (RSA), where he is leading an ambitiousprogramme of work on people, power, place and inclusivegrowth. Ed has a background in community engagement: hewrote Manchester’s first community engagement strategy, hewas a founder of the national Participatory Budgeting Unitand he is the founder and chair of the Levenshulme Inspirecommunity hub in inner city Manchester.

@edcox_rsa

NICOLE CURATO

Nicole Curato is an Associate Professor at the Centre forDeliberative Democracy and Global Governance at theUniversity of Canberra. She is the editor of the Journal ofPublic Deliberation (with André Bächtiger & Kim Strandberg)and Associate Editor of the Journal of Political Studies. Shehas published extensively on deliberative democratic theoryand practice, including the books Democracy in a Time ofMisery: From Spectacular Tragedies to Deliberative Actionand Power and Deliberative Democracy: Norms, Forums,Systems.

@NicoleCurato

Since the beginning of 2018, Yves is the Co-ordinator ofthe G1000 organisation in Belgium, which researchesand promotes democratic innovation, and moreprecisely sortition based deliberative democracy.Previously Yves worked as a researcher and lecturer atthe KU Leuven and University of Antwerp. He publishedon topics such as citizenship, new forms of participationand elite politicians.

YVES DEJAEGHERE@G1000org

Laurie is the Director of Research and Learning at MASSLBP. With strong research skills and an interest in learningshe helps clients make complex policy issuesaccessible and engaging for the public. She canquickly assess the intellectual landscape of many issuesto develop unbiased programming and balancedlearning materials that support citizen engagement andimprove policy development.

LAURIE DRAKE@lauriedrake_

Kezia is the Director of The John Smith Centre. The Centre isbased at the University of Glasgow and seeks to make thepositive case for representative democracy throughresearch and advocacy. Kezia serves as the Centre's firstDirector and has been in post since July 2019. Prior to thatshe was a Member of the Scottish Parliament.

KEZIA DUGDALE@kezdugdale

Founder and Partner of the Danish based change agencyWe Do Democracy that both works as democracyinnovators and advisors as well as activists with their owninitiatives. Zakia is the initiator of citizen assemblies inDenmark and Latvia – running the first Danish citizenassembly for the Copenhagen City Council 2019. She hasfounded Demokrati Garage – democracy innovation huband center in Copenhagen. She is also the initiator of thedanish Association Demokratiscenen and inventor ofDemocracy Fitness, a democracy training programme.

ZAKIA ELVANG@zakiae

OLIVIER ESCOBAR

Oliver Escobar is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at theUniversity of Edinburgh, and Co-Director of What WorksScotland, Smart Urban Intermediaries and Distant Voices:Coming Home. Oliver’s areas of research, teaching andpractice are participatory democracy, democraticinnovation, political inequalities, community engagementand collaborative governance. He also co-ordinates theCitizen Participation Network. Oliver’s applied research hasbeen shared in over fifty publications, and he has designedand facilitated dozens of participatory and deliberativeprocesses in a range of policy and community contexts.

@OliverEscobar

GORKA ESPIAU IDOIAGA

Gorka Espiau Idoiaga is Professor of Practice at the Centre forInterdisciplinary Research on Montreal at McGill Universityand Senior Fellow at the Agirre Lehendakaria Center forSocial and Political Studies, a collaborative research initiativeto share the Basque case of socio-economic transformationunder extreme difficulties internationally. Gorka is also aSenior Fellow at the Young Foundation, founding partner ofSocial Innovation Laboratory Koop (SILK) and advisor to theWork4Progress initiative powered by La Caixa Foundation.Previously, he served as Senior Advisor to the Executive Officeof the Basque President.

@GEspiau

Professor Farrell, MRIA, is Head of Politics and InternationalRelations at University College Dublin. A specialist in thestudy of representation, elections and parties, his mostrecent books include: Political Parties and DemocraticLinkage, and A Conservative Revolution? and ElectoralChange in Twenty-First Century Ireland. His current work isfocused on constitutional deliberation, and in that capacityhe was the research director of the Irish ConstitutionalConvention (2012-14) and the research leader of the IrishCitizens’ Assembly (2016-18).

DAVID FARRELL@dfarrell_ucd

JESSICA FELDMAN

Jessica Feldman is an Assistant Professor in the Department ofGlobal Communications at the American University of Paris.She previously was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Digital CivilSociety Lab at Stanford University, and earned a Ph.D. inMedia, Culture, and Communication from New YorkUniversity in 2017. Feldman’s current book project, RadicalProtocols: Designing Democratic Digital Tools in SocialMovements is a study of the ways in which democratic valuesare (or are not) inscribed in the design of emergingnetworked and decentralised communication technologies.

JAMES FISHKIN

James S. Fishkin holds the Janet M. Peck Chair in InternationalCommunication at Stanford University where he is Professor ofCommunication, Professor of Political Science (by courtesy)and Director of the Center for Deliberative Democracy. Hislatest book is Democracy When the People Are Thinking. Hiswork on deliberative democracy has stimulated more than100 Deliberative Polls in 28 countries around the world. It hasbeen used to help governments and policy makers makeimportant decisions in many countries around the world.

Francis Foley is the Project Director of Citizens'Convention on UK Democracy. The aim of the project isto design and deliver an ambitious, inclusive andthorough deliberation on democratic reform in the UK.Alongside the adoption of the Convention’srecommendations, the main outcome will be a radicallyreformed system of politics.

FRANCES FOLEY

PAULINA FRÖHLICH

Paulina is a Project Manager at Berlin-based think tank DasProgressive Zentrum. She has initiated projects like"Countering Populism" and "Europa Hört" for the program"Future of Democracy". Former spokeswoman andcofounding member of "Kleiner Fünf", an initiative againstrightwing populism.

@ PaulinaFrohlich

Marcin Gerwin, PhD is a specialist in sustainabledevelopment and deliberative democracy, co-ordinator of citizens’ assemblies. A political sciencegraduate, the topic of his doctoral dissertation focusedon sustainable development in the context of globalchallenges. He is a co-founder of Sopocka InicjatywaRozwojowa (Sopot Development Initiative), for manyyears engaged in the promotion of efficient democracyin Poland. He is an author of Food and Democracy andClimate-friendly Food.

MARCIN GERWIN@marcingerwin

Doreen leads Scottish Government’s involvement in theOpen Government Partnership at both a National andInternational level. In Scotland, this work supports thereform of public services, the renewal of democracy,promotes openness, transparency and the use ofinnovative participative processes to help transform howpeople interact with public services.

DOREEN GROVE@redpath42

DOMINIK HIERLEMANN

Dominik is a Senior Expert and Head of Project "Democracyand Participation in Europe“ at Bertelsmann Stiftung. In hiscurrent role, Dominik is involved in developing newparticipatory formats for citizens in co-operation with theEuropean Commission. Prior to that, he was in charge of thecreation and management of the Citizens’ Forum, the biggestproject in the field of citizen engagement in Germany todate, initiated by the Federal President.

@DHierlemann

Tim is Director of Involve. He has advised national,devolved and local governments in the UK on designingand facilitating effective participatory processes. He hasoverseen and co-lead and facilitated large deliberativeprocesses, including the Citizens' Assembly on Brexitand Citizens' Assembly on Social Care. He has workedwith multilateral organisations – including the OECD,Council of Europe and Open Government Partnership -to improve the practice of participation and opengovernment globally.

TIM HUGHES@TimJHughes

Darren is Chief Executive of The Electoral Reform Society ofthe United Kingdom since 2017 and oversees campaignsfor a fairer voting system for the House of Commons andlocal government, an elected second chamber, thepromotion of deliberative democracy processes andmeasures to improve gender representation and theparticipation of young people. Darren is a New Zealanderand before moving to London was a Labour MP acrossthree parliamentary terms. He served as a Minister in HelenClark’s government and then as a senior member of theShadow Cabinet when his party moved to Opposition.

DARREN HUGHES@Darrenhughesnz

AMELIE KLEIN

Amelie Klein is a design curator, writer and critic. Until May2019, she worked at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil amRhein, Germany, where most recently she opened theinternational travelling exhibition “Victor Papanek: The Politicsof Design”. She completed an MA in Design Criticism at NewYork’s School of Visual Arts as well as an MBA at the ViennaUniversity of Economics and Business, Austria, and worked asa journalist publishing amongst others in the Austrian daily DiePresse and magazines such as Abitare and Metropolis.

@AmelieKlein3

Hélène is an Associate Professor of Political Science atYale University since fall 2009. She completed a Ph.D. inPolitical Science at Harvard University in 2008 with adissertation on collective intelligence as an argumentfor democracy. Her research and teaching interestsinclude democratic theory, political epistemology,theories of justice, the philosophy of social sciences(particularly economics), constitutional processes andtheories, and workplace democracy.

HÉLÈNE LANDEMORE@landemore

A curator, designer and journalist, Aline previously workedwith Paola Antonelli at MoMA, New York, in the pioneerdepartment, known as MoMA R&D, which explores thepotential and responsibility of museums as public actors,with the vision of establishing cultural institutions as the R&Ddepartments of society. She is the Co-Founder of SALOONWien, a network for women working in the arts in Vienna.She is currently Assistant Curator at the 26th Biennial ofDesign, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

ALINE LARA REZENDE

PANTHEA LEE

Panthea Lee is a Founder and Executive Director of Reboot,where she leads teams in designing and delivering innovativeapproaches to advance accountable governance andstrengthen participatory democracies. She has directedprograms in over 30 countries, including national and globalimplementations, with partners including UNDP, Sida, WorldBank, Open Society Foundations, and Hewlett Foundation;she also brings extensive experience with the global opengovernment, open knowledge, and participatory budgetingmovements.

@PantheaLee

Josef Lentsch is Managing Partner of the Innovation inPolitics Institute Germany. Until December 2018, he wasFounding Director of NEOS Lab, the party academy ofNEOS, a liberal political party in Austria. Prior to that, hewas the Director of RSA International and Head ofFellowship Services for the Royal Society of Arts inLondon. In 2019, Springer published his book PoliticalEntrepreneurship: How to build successful centristpolitical start-ups.

JOSEF LENTSCH@joseflentsch

JUHA LEPPÄNEN

Juha Leppänen is the Chief Executive of Demos Helsinki,leading the independent Nordic think tank. Juha is a socialscientist and previously worked as theme area lead at DemosHelsinki. At Demos, Juha has lead multiple strategy, foresightand innovation processes for both public and privateinstitutions. Juha is an experienced speaker and advisor onstrategy, policy and innovation and serves as a Royal Societyof Arts Fellow.

@juhaleppanen

MIRIAM LEVIN

Miriam Levin is Head of Community Action and Giving at theDepartment for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport of the UKGovernment. In her current role, she runs national programson creating active and mobilised citizens through communityorganising training; trialing deliberative democracy to openup local government decision-making to residents; growingplace-based giving; and supporting partnerships of citizens,civil society organisations and local authorities to worktogether to tackle issues through social action.

@MiriamLevin1

Peter MacLeod is the Co-Founder and Principal of MASSLBP, and one of Canada’s leading experts in publicengagement and deliberative democracy. Since itsfounding in 2007, MASS has completed more than 200major policy projects across Canada while pioneering theuse of Civic Lotteries and Citizen Reference Panels. Agraduate of the University of Toronto and Queen’sUniversity, he is an Action Canada fellow (2003) and arecipient of the Public Policy Forum’s Emerging LeadersAward (2008).

PETER MACLEOD @petermacleod

Craig is a Policy Analyst in the OECD’s Open GovernmentUnit. He manages the organisation’s work on identifyinggovernance responses to the challenges of informationdisorder and promoting the role of media ecosystems insupporting the open government principles oftransparency, integrity, accountability and stakeholderparticipation. Prior to his work at the OECD, he served as aninternational development expert managing Bill andMelinda Gates Foundation projects focused on stakeholderparticipation and urban governance issues.

CRAIG MATASICK@cmatasick

Arantxa Mendiharat is a cultural mediator. Graduated inPolitical Science from Bordeaux University (France), sheholds a MSc in Arts Management from Heriot-WattUniversity, Edinburgh. She is interested in models ofdemocracy that give a relevant role to randomlyselected citizens. In this field, she collaborates withParticipalab (Medialab Prado) in Madrid, in the creationof the City Observatory, and is part of Democracy R&Dnetwork, an international network that promotesdeliberative democracy. She lives in Bilbao, Spain.

ARANTXA MENDIHARAT@arantxamendi

GEOFF MULGAN

Geoff Mulgan has been Chief Executive of Nesta since 2011.Nesta is the UK's innovation foundation and runs a wide rangeof activities in investment, practical innovation and research.Between 1997 and 2004 Geoff had various roles in the UKgovernment including Director of the Government's StrategyUnit and Head of Policy in the Prime Minister's office. GeoffCo-Chairs a World Economic Forum group looking atinnovation and entrepreneurship in the fourth industrialrevolution. His most recent book is Big Mind: how collectiveintelligence can change our world.

@geoffmulgan

Paul is an activist, a social entrepreneur and aneducator. He is a Co-Founder of Sager der Samler – adanish platform to strengthen civic action as a drivingforce in the renewal of society. He is a Co-Founder andProject Director of the democracy festival 'RethinkActivism'. Paul also works internationally withorganisations to support their development of learningcultures and distributed leadership practices.

PAUL NATORP@paulnatorp

BETH NOVECK

Beth Simone Noveck directs the Governance Lab (GovLab)and its MacArthur Research Network on OpeningGovernance. She is a Professor in Technology, Culture, andSociety and affiliated faculty at the Center for Urban Scienceand Progress at New York University’s Tandon School ofEngineering and a Fellow at NYU’s Institute for PublicKnowledge. Appointed as New Jersey’s first Chief InnovationOfficer in 2018. She is also Visiting Senior Faculty Fellow at theJohn J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at RutgersUniversity.

@bethnoveck

Arild is a PhD Candidate at the Norwegian University ofScience and Technology. His research aims to contribute tothe growing amount of empirical studies about deliberativedemocracy and environmental issues. In particular, Arild isdoing research on different mini-publics, and is especiallyinterested to see how people’s preferences and attitudeschange through a process of deliberation.

ARILD OHREN@Arildohr

Dr. Lex Paulson is the Director of the School of CollectiveIntelligence at the Université Mohammed VI Polytechniquein Morocco, and lectures in rhetoric and advocacy atSciences Po-Paris. In addition to public affairs work on fourcontinents, he served as a mobilisation strategist for thecampaigns of Barack Obama in 2008 and EmmanuelMacron in 2017. From 2014 to 2018 he directedinternational projects for D21, a consultancy in collectiveintelligence, and has advised the French NationalAssembly on innovative forms of citizen engagement.

LEX PAULSON@lexpaulson

TEELE PEHK

Teele Pehk is an Estonian democracy artist, change makerand urbanist. She advocates for open governance andbelieve in the impact and power of citizen assemblies.2015-2018 she directed the Estonian Cooperation Assembly,a competence centre working on policy recommendationsand initiatives on societal issues. 2010-2015 she directed theurban issues think-and-do-tank Estonian Urban Lab. Since2016 she has been leading online and offline advocacyefforts to build a critical mass of users for the citizens initiativesplatform known as rahvaalgatus.ee.

@activetallinn

Tiago Peixoto is a Senior Governance Specialist at TheWorld Bank Group. Since joining the World Bank in 2010,Tiago has been working with governments to developdigital solutions for better public policies and services. Priorto joining the World Bank, he managed projects andconsulted for a number of organisations. Tiago is a facultymember of New York University’s Governance Lab, and aformer Research Co-ordinator the Electronic DemocracyCentre at the University of Zurich.

TIAGO C. PEIXOTO@participatory

SOPHIE PORNSCHLEGEL

Sophie Pornschlegel is a Senior Policy Analyst within the "EUPolitics and Institutions" Programme and Project Lead for"Connecting Europe" at the European Policy Centre inBrussels. Prior to that, she managed the Democracy Lab atthe Berlin-based think tank Das Progressive Zentrum. Sheworks on democratic innovations, (de-)democratisationprocesses, representation and citizen participation in Europe.She has worked as a public affairs consultant at the EuropeanCommission and for a Labour MP at Westminster.

@spornschlegel

ALICE RAWSTHORN

Alice Rawsthorn is an award-winning design critic and theauthor of Design as an Attitude and Hello World: WhereDesign Meets Life. Her weekly design column for The NewYork Times was syndicated worldwide for over a decade. Sheis chair of the boards of trustees of The Hepworth WakefieldArt Gallery in Yorkshire and Chisenhale Gallery in London anda member of the UK government's Honours Committee forArts and Media. A founding member of the Writers for Libertycampaign to champion human rights and freedoms, Alicewas awarded an OBE for services to design and the arts.

@alicerawsthorn

KYLE REDMAN

Kyle is a Project Manager at the newDemocracy Foundation.Kyle completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of NewSouth Wales, majoring in both Philosophy and Politics andcompleting Honours in Politics. He has recently managed ourDemocracy in Geelong, Yarra Valley Water and ACT HousingChoices projects, while also contributing to project designsdomestically and internationally.

Future of Democracy

@kredman500

Gaëtane Ricard-Nihoul is advising the French Secretary ofState for European Affairs. Previously, she was DeputySecretary General for the Citizens Consultations on Europeand headed the Citizens’ Conferences team at the MissionGrand Débat. Former Deputy Head of the EuropeanCommission Representation in France, she has held variouspositions as a European official. She also worked asSecretary General of the Jacques Delors Institute in Parisand for the Belgian Government. Gaëtane is the author ofPour une Fédération européenne d’Etats-nations: la visionde Jacques Delors revisitée.

GAETANE RICARD-NIHOUL@RNihoul

Cassie is the Head of Digital Grant Making at theNational Lottery Community Fund, where she leads a£15 Million Digital Fund to help the social sectortransition to a be fit for the future. Previously she was theStrategic Design Director at Doteveryone, where herwork focused on ways of strengthening society - people,communities and organisations – to build a new socialcontract for the digital age. She is also the Co-Founderof the Point People, helping organisations work togetherwisely to address the large, complex issues of our time.

CASSIE ROBINSON@CassieRobinson

Matt Ryan is a former Deputy Chief of Staff to a SouthAustralian Premier. In that role he drove work on thegovernment's internationally recognized democraticreform program, which included multiple citizens’ juries,large scale participatory budgeting, open innovationchallenges, and a modern style of political leadership.Matt is currently working with key figures in Australiancivil society on a multi-year plan to ‘reboot’ Australia’sdemocracy and is a member of a national steeringcommittee creating “Federation 2.0”.

MATT RYAN@MattRyanAust

VERA SACCHETTI

Vera Sacchetti is a design critic and curator. She serves in avariety of curatorial, research and editorial roles, focusing oncontemporary design and its transition towards a mediatingrole between disciplines, and a post-industrial future.Recently, she was Co-Curator of the A Woman's Worksymposium at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden andAssociate Curator of the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial – ASchool of Schools. She Co-Founded the informal lecture seriesTEOK Basel and editorial consultancy Superscript.

@verasacchetti

David Schecter is the coordinator of the DemocracyR&D network, and the International Network Developerfor the newDemocracy Foundation in Australia. He hasbeen working in the field of deliberative democracysince 2012.

DAVID SCHECTER

Graham Smith is Professor of Politics and Director of theCentre for the Study of Democracy at the University ofWestminster. Graham is a specialist in democratictheory and practice, in particular democraticinnovations. He is also Chair of the Foundation forDemocracy and Sustainable Development.

GRAHAM SMITH@Smith1966G

PAOLO SPADA

Paolo is a Researcher at the Center for Social Studies of theUniversity of Coimbra. His work explores how to optimiseparticipatory systems, platforms that combine a variety ofdigital and in person participatory and deliberativeprocesses. Paolo has contributed to the design,implementation and evaluation of a large array of differentdigital and in person participatory & deliberative processes.His specialty is evaluating processes via a mix betweenrandomised controlled trials, surveys and participatory actionresearch. His most recent work is exploring the adoption of e-deliberation platforms to improve news comments online.

@I4DEM

JANE SUITER

Jane is Director of the Institute for Future Media andJournalism (FuJo) at DCU and an Associate Professor in theSchool of Communications at Dublin City University. Jane'sexpertise lies mainly in the area of the public sphere; and inparticular participation and political engagement. She is co-PI on the Irish Citizens' Assembly Project including the IrishCitizen Assembly (2016-2018) and the Irish ConstitutionalConvention (2012-2014) and We the Citizens (2011), Ireland’sfirst deliberative experiment. She won the Brown DemocracyMedal for these projects.

@JaneSuit

JOHN TASIOULAS

Professor John Tasioulas is Director of the Yeoh Tiong LayCentre for Politics, Philosophy, and Law at the Dickson PoonSchool of Law, King's College London. He has previously heldpermanent posts at Oxford, UCL, and Glasgow and visitingposts at the Australian National University, the University ofChicago, Harvard University, and the University of Melbourne,and has acted as a consultant for the World Bank. He haswritten extensively on topics in legal, moral and politicalphilosophy, with a focus on human rights, punishment, andthe foundations of international law.

@JTasioulas

Matthew Taylor has been chief executive of the RoyalSociety for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturesand Commerce (RSA) since November 2006. Prior to thisappointment, Matthew was chief adviser on politicalstrategy to the prime minister. Previous roles includeLabour Party Director of Policy, and Deputy GeneralSecretary and Chief Executive of the IPPR; the UK’sleading left-of-centre think tank.

MATTHEW TAYLOR@RSAMatthew

Dr. van der Linden is a Founding Director of theforthcoming Digital Democracy Centre and an AssistantProfessor in the Department of Political Science atMcMaster University, where he researches theimplications of technology for both the practice andstudy of politics. He is also the Founder and CEO of VoxPop Labs, a social enterprise best known for producingVote Compass, a voter engagement and educationapplication that has been used by tens of millions ofpeople worldwide.

CLIFTON VAN DER LINDEN@CliffvdLinden

Stefaan G. Verhulst is Co-Founder and Chief Research andDevelopment Officer of the Governance Laboratory @NYU(GovLab) where he is responsible for building a researchfoundation on how to transform governance usingadvances in science and technology. He is the Curator andEditor of the Living Library and The Digest. Before joiningNYU full time, Verhulst spent more than a decade as Chiefof Research for the Markle Foundation, where he continuesto serve as Senior Advisor.

STEFAAN VERHULST @sverhulst

KITTY VON BERTELE

Kitty works at Luminate, which is a global philanthropicorganisation with the goal of empowering people andinstitutions to work together to build just and fair societies.She focuses on policy, advocacy, and related investments inWestern Europe. Prior to joining Luminate, Kitty was at the UKDepartment for International Development, where shedeveloped and implemented their digital strategy. Beforethat she worked at the Open Government Partnership andserved in various other roles in the UK government.

@kittyvonbertele

IAIN WALKER

Iain is the Executive Director of the newDemocracyFoundation based in Australia. We run practical trials of jury-style models for Mayors, Ministers and Premiers in an effort tofind complementary processes which bring informed publicjudgement into public decision as a way to build trust.

@newdemocracyAUS

Alex Way is the Managing Director of MASS LBP inToronto, Canada. Alex has led many high profileprojects while at MASS. He is a graduate of the TrudeauCentre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University ofToronto and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government,where he completed his Master in Public Policy as thePforzheimer Non-Profit Fellow. While at Harvard, he alsocompleted research for the Ash Center for DemocraticGovernance and Innovation.

ALEX WAY@alexanderway

Niamh leads on Digital Government at the ScottishGovernment, and specialises in commitments toimproving digital and civic technology, as well as publicparticipation. She leads collaborative working with civilsociety, third sector orgnisations and the public. Niamhbrings experience from civil society into government,and was until recently the Scotland manager at ademocracy non-profit organisation Democratic Societyworking on innovative public participation.

NIAMH WEBSTER@niamhwebster

RICHARD YOUNGS

Richard is a Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe and Professor atthe University of Warwick. Richard co-ordinates the'Reshaping European Democracy' project at Carnegie. He isan author of thirteen books, most recently Civic ActivismUnleashed: New Hope or False Dawn for Democracy.

@YoungsRichard

Anthony runs the Democratic Society, which he set up in2006, and which now has a team of 20 people inBelgium, Italy, the UK and Germany. The DemocraticSociety works on practical democratic innovation andresearch in communities, local and nationalgovernments, and at European level. Anthony workedfor 10 years in central government and 4 years in localgovernment in the UK.

ANTHONY ZACHARZEWSKI@anthonyzach

Katharina is Head of Operations at Décider Ensemble. Shewas a Policy Analyst in the OECD Open Government Unit,where she focused mainly on access to information, citizenparticipation and civic space providing policy analysis andadvice to OECD and MENA countries. She has also workedon media transparency for Reporters without Boarders andis active in several community projects in the 18th district ofParis.

KATHARINA ZUEGEL@KatharinaZuegel