Diane Stone

Diane Stone is a vice president of the International Public Policy Association.[1] Until 2019, she worked at the University of Warwick for 23 years, and the University of Canberra. She was Foundation Professor of Public Policy at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest in 2004, remaining as Visiting Professor from 2008 and returned full time in 2019 to oversee the transition fo the School of Public Policy to Vienna. In 2012, she became a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.[2]

Stone worked at the World Bank Institute as a member of the Secretariat that launched the Global Development Network in 1999.[3] She was an editor of Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations[4] and currently she is with Policy & Politics.[5]

Research and publication has focused on the influence of ideas and expertise in policy making, and especially the impact of think tanks.[6] Other work has focused on policy networks.[7] especially networks sponsored by the World Bank.[8] Recent scholarship addresses the dynamics of global policy making and transnational administration[9] as well as processes of policy transfer and policy translation.[10] At CEU, her research addresses international organisation influences on the transition countries of Central Europe.[11] At Warwick, research and publication addresses the new diplomacy in science, culture and diaspora. [12]

Stone was a research leader in the European Commission's EL-CSID consortium on European Leadership in Science Cultural and Innovation Diplomacy[13]

• 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.

• Diane Stone publications indexed by Google Scholar