Ana Paula is an assistant professor in urban planning at the University of Michigan. She investigates how disenfranchised communities engage with urban governance and evaluates the significance of participatory institutions in planning socially and environmentally just cities.
She has a Ph.D. in anthropology, master’s degrees in urban planning and Latin American studies, and a law degree.
Read MoreRamon is a Ph.D. candidate at UC Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. His doctoral project uses cross-cultural ethnographic materials and survey experiments to study people’s intuitions with regard to deliberative decision-making.
Read MoreRocío is an associate researcher for CONICET, based at the Political Research Institute of the National University of San Martín in Argentina. She also currently works as an adjunct professor of contemporary political theory at the University of Buenos Aires and as a professor of political science at the National University of San Martín.
In addition, Rocío directs the collection Contemporary Political Thought at Prometeo publishing house and is a member of the #NoSinMujeres Network of Political Scientists.
Read MoreB. Shine Cho is an assistant professor in the department of public administration at Konkuk University in Seoul, South Korea. Currently, he is working on a research project about post-COVID participatory budgeting.
Shine received a Ph.D. in public administration from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, a master’s of public administration from Georgia State University, and master’s and bachelor’s degrees in public administration from Yonsei University in Seoul.
Read MoreJaroslav Dvorak has worked as a professor and head of the Department of Public Administration and Political Sciences at Klaipeda University, Lithuania. He served as Klaipeda University’s representative at the Klaipeda region development council (2019-2021), and at the Klaipeda University Participatory Budget Lab, he promotes PB capacity building.
Read MoreJared is a postdoctoral fellow with the Center for Inter-American Policy and Research at Tulane University. He is currently working on a book that explores the causes and effects of large-scale participatory institutions in Latin America. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Read MoreMaggie Shum is a research and program associate for the Global Policy Initiative (GPI) in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. She also earned her Ph.D. in political science from Notre Dame.
Read MoreJarosław Olejniczak is an assistant professor in the Department of Finance at the Wroclaw University of Economics and Business.
Currently, he collaborates with researchers from Poland and the Czech Republic to examine the participation of young adults in local government activities, as well as citizen participation in rural areas.
Read MorePauliina is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Tampere Centre for Societal Sustainability, Tampere University. She studies participatory budgeting as a democratic innovation in different socio-cultural contexts, such as Finland, Poland and the United Kingdom.
Read MoreKarla Valverde is a full-time professor in the Center for Political Studies at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She is an active member of various international academic associations. At the national level, she is a founding Member of the National College of Professionals in Political Science, Public Administration and Government, A.C.; of the Association for Accreditation and Certification in Social Sciences, A. C. (ACCECISO) where she is currently Chairwoman of the Steering Committee, and of the Mexican Council of Research in Political Science (COMICIP). In 2005 she received from UNAM Award for Young Academics in the Area of Social Sciences and since 2008, she is a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI). She is the author of the book ‘Institutional Construction of Social Development’ in Mexico. In addition, she is currently the Academic Coordinator at UNAM of the H2020 Project The Cohesive city: Addressing Stigmatization in Disadvantaged Urban Neighborhoods, which is an international cooperation project between the European Commission, various academic institutions and NGOs from 6 other countries.
Read MoreDaniel is the founder and director of the Participatory Governance Initiative at Arizona State University. He has conducted research on participatory budgeting since 1999, especially in Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Costa Rica, Canada and the United States. He helped organize several international conferences on citizenship learning and participatory democracy. His publications include Learning citizenship by practicing democracy: International initiatives and perspectives, The tango of citizenship learning and participatory democracy, ’This is our school of citizenship’: informal learning in local democracy, Democratic innovations and local governance: an international perspective, ’I took a lot of stuff for granted’: Participatory budgeting and the Neighbourhood Support Coalition (with E. Pinnington), Who Learns What in Participatory Democracy? Participatory Budgeting in Rosario, Argentina (with J. Lerner), Participatory Budgeting in North America: The Case of Guelph, Canada (with E. Pinnington and J. Lerner), Citizenship education through participatory budgeting: the Case of Bioscience High School in Phoenix, Arizona (with M. Cohen and A. Wiek), Participatory budgeting, civic education, and political capital (with B. Goldfrank, and Conflicts and tensions in the practice of participatory democracy: The case of participatory budgeting.
Read MoreCarolin is a professor for Social Science and Social Science Research Methods at the Berlin School of Economics and Law. She was previously Director of Research at Public Agenda, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and public engagement organization in New York City, where she led research and evaluation projects on participatory budgeting in the USA and Canada. She co-authored several research reports on the state of PB in the USA and Canada, including the 2014-15 and 2015-16 reviews and an interview study on public officials‘ experiences with PB (Why Let the People Decide? 2016). For this work, she and her team at Public Agenda collaborated with local evaluators across the US and Canada. They also led the North American PB Research Board’s efforts to develop the first edition of evaluation metrics for North American PB. Carolin currently studies PB’s impacts on budgeting decisions and the question of whether and how PB can affect a more equitable allocation of public funds. Carolin holds a PhD in Community Psychology from New York University and a Master’s degree in Social and Organizational Psychology from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Read MoreAlberto is a professor and researcher who is particularly interested in the connections between inclusion, equity, deliberation, and creativity in concrete participatory policies. Alberto has helped organize an international conference on citizenship learning and participatory democracy in Rosario 2010. He has conducted research on Participatory Budgeting in Rosario, strategic participatory planning in Santa Fe, and the linkages between creativity and politics. He has published several books and articles on these issues.
Read MoreTimothy is a founder and Executive Director at Open Governance Institute (OGI), Kenya, a nonprofit that seeks to advance the delivery of public services through budget research, advocacy and innovation. He also founded CIOG Kenya from which OGI Kenya now has taken over its nonprofit programs. He is the civil society partner for Elgeyo Marakwet County, OGP Local Program and currently supporting efforts to monitor, evaluate and report on the implementation progress of the county’s OGP Commitments. Timothy has over five years of experience in the field of public finance management (PFM) and governance, with a keen interest in learning, experimentation, and innovation to advance efforts by practitioners of good governance to adapt to the dynamism in the civic space and governance practices. He is currently involved in ongoing tests and design of new and innovative participatory approaches including experimental citizen-led application of PB and Public Deliberation on Budgets (PD) to develop citizens alternative budgets across Kenya’s devolved units. As a result, Timothy is a participant in the OGP Practice Group on Dialogue and Deliberation. Timothy is a cyclist and passionate footballer.
Read MoreGiovanni is an architect, planner and senior researcher at the Centre of Social Studies of Coimbra University, Portugal. He coordinates the PhD Democracy in the XXI Century and is a member of the Institute of Democracy and Democratization of Communication at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Giovanni has extensive experience in design and management of participatory processes. He has provided consultancy and training in more than 40 countries, working for institutions such as the World Bank, the Council of Europe, United Cities and Local Governments, and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Giovanni has various publications on PB, including 4 books and more than 80 articles and book chapters.
Read MoreCelina Su is the Marilyn J. Gittell Chair in Urban Studies and a Professor of Political Science at the City University of New York. Her publications include Streetwise for Book Smarts: Grassroots Organizing and Education Reform in the Bronx (Cornell University Press) and essays in Harper’s, n+1, and elsewhere. She has received several distinguished fellowships, including a Berlin Prize and a Whiting Award for Excellence in Teaching. She has served as an active participant on the Steering Committee and a District Committee for PBNYC (Participatory Budgeting in New York City).
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