Diane Stone

PhD. Political Science and International Relations, Australian National University, 1994.

MA. Political Science (by research thesis), Faculty of Arts, Australian National University, 1989.

BA.  Double Major: Asian Studies / Social & Political Theory, Murdoch University, Western Australia, 1987

Diane Stone commenced her academic career as a Tutor at the University of Manchester before moving to a full time position as a Lecturer in Politics and Public Administration in 1993 at the Manchester Metropolitan University. In January 1996, she moved to the University of Warwick as Lecturer and ESRC Research Fellow becoming a Professor in 2007. She remained at Warwick until October 2019 but held other appointments.

During 1999, Stone worked at the World Bank Institute as a member of the Secretariat that launched the Global Development Network.^[1] Subsequently, she become a member of the Governing Body of the GDN 2001--2004 at a time when it transformed from a NGO into a treaty-based international organization.

Diane Stone was Foundation Professor of Public Policy at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest from January 2004 until December 2006, thereafter remaining a part-time Professor. From 2019 she became full time Dean of the School of Public Policy to oversee the transition of the School to Vienna in Austria following LEX CEU -- higher education legislation enacted by the Hungarian Government, and which broke EU law.

In late 2020, she moved to the European University Institute in Italy. EUI is an international organization that was set up in 1972 by the original 6 founding members of what was the then European Communities.

Professor Stone returned to Australia in 2011 where she was Winthrop Professor of Politics at the University of Western Australia for three years. Diane Stone was later Centenary Professor at the University of Canberra from December 2015 to June 2019 where she was based in the now closed Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis.

She was an editor of Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations.^[2] From 2017 to 2020, she was Consulting Editor with Policy & Politics.^[3] She is on the editorial board of numerous other scholarly journals.

Diane Stone was a founding vice president of the International Public Policy Association for 8 years until June 2022.^[4]

Stone's research and publication has focused on the influence of ideas and expertise in policy making, and especially the impact of think tanks.^[5] Other work has focused on policy networks.^[6] especially networks sponsored by the World Bank.^[7] Recent scholarship addresses the dynamics of global policy making and transnational administration^[8] as well as processes of policy translation.^[9]

At CEU, her research addressed international organisation influences on the transition countries of Central Europe.^[10] She also researched international philanthropy in higher education, including that of the Open Society Foundations.^[11]

At Warwick, research and publication addressed 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 Cultural, Science and Innovation Diplomacy.^[13]

·       Distinguished Visiting Professor, College of Public Policy, Hamid bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar, 2022.

·       Elected Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.^[14] November 2012.  

·       GARNET FP6 European Commission Network of Excellence Visiting Scholar research grant, Central European University, 2007.

·       Grantee, Non-Governmental Public Action (NGPA) programme, Economic and Social Research Council of the UK, 2006—2007.

·       Marie Curie Chair, from the European Commission FP6 "Structuring the European Research Area", Central European University, 2004–2008.

·       Fellow, The Salzburg Seminar, Schloss Leopoldskron, Salzburg, Austria, 2004.

·       Fellow, 21^st Century Trust, ‘The Knowledge Society’ Klingenthal Castle, Strasbourg, 2000.

·       Visiting Research Fellowship, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University competitive research grant, 2000.

·       UK Economic and Social Research Council Research Fellowship (early career) 1995-1998.

·       Fulbright Fellowship – Australian-American Educational Foundation for Doctoral Study in the USA,1991.

• ‘Transnational Policy Transfer: Ideas, Power, and Development’, co-edited with Les 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 & A. Cartwright, E. 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