Diane Stone


Diane L. Stone is an Australian-British academic.

Career

Diane Stone is a vice president of the International Public Policy Association. 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 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.
Stone worked at the World Bank Institute as a member of the Secretariat that launched the Global Development Network in 1999. She was an editor of and currently she is with Policy & Politics.
Research and publication has focused on the influence of ideas and expertise in policy making, and especially the impact of think tanks. Other work has focused on policy networks. especially networks sponsored by the World Bank. Recent scholarship addresses the dynamics of global policy making and transnational administration as well as processes of policy transfer and policy translation. At CEU, her research addresses international organisation influences on the transition countries of Central Europe. At Warwick, research and publication addresses the new diplomacy in science, culture and diaspora.
Stone was a research leader in the European Commission's EL-CSID consortium on European Leadership in Science Cultural and Innovation Diplomacy

Book Publications