Diane L. StoneFASSA (born April 1964) is an Australian-British academic. She is Chair of Global Policy in the Florence School of Governance at the European University Institute in Italy. Her research and publication addresses the influence of ideas and expertise on policy, the political economy of higher education; the ‘new diplomacy’; policy networks; international philanthropy; think tanks and global governance.
Education
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
Career
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.
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]
Personal Awards and Grants
· Distinguished Visiting Professor, College of Public Policy, Hamid bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar, 2022.
^Diane Stone, Capturing the Political Imagination: Think Tanks and the Policy Process (London: Frank Cass, 1996)
^Diane Stone and Simon Maxwell (eds.) Global Knowledge Networks and International Development: Bridges Across Boundaries (Routledge, 2005).
^Diane Stone (Ed.) Banking on Knowledge: The Genesis of the Global Development Network (London, Routledge, 2000).
^Diane Stone, Knowledge Actors and Transnational Governance: The Public-Private Policy Nexus in the Global Agora (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013)
^Diane Stone, ‘Understanding the transfer of policy failure: bricolage, experimentalism and translation. Policy & Politics, 45(1): 55-70. January 2017
^Agnes Batory, Andrew Cartwright & Diane Stone (Eds.) Policy Experiments, Failures and Innovations: Beyond Accession in Central and Eastern Europe, Edward Elgar, 2017
