Ann Florini is a Fellow in the Political Reform Program at New America; a founding Board Member of the Economics of Mutuality Foundation; a Senior Global Futures Scientist at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, Arizona State University; a Professor of Practice at the Thunderbird School of Global Management NatureFinance and the Task Force on Nature Markets.
[citation needed] Until June 2018, she was Professor of Public Policy in the School of Social Sciences at Singapore Management University, where she was Academic Director of the Masters of Tri-Sector Collaboration, and was Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.
[1] Florini's academic training was at Syracuse University (BA), Princeton (Master's in Public Affairs) and at UCLA (Ph.D. in Political Science 1995).
Prior to joining Brookings as a Senior Fellow in 2002, Florini was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and from 1996 to 1997 she served as research director of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Project on World Security.
[3] Florini has spearheaded numerous international projects, including the Global Governance Initiative on behalf of the World Economic Forum (2000-2005) and the International Task Force on Transparency, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University (2000-2005).