Diane Stone was a founding vice president of the International Public Policy Association for 8 years until June 2022.
[1] She is Professor of Global Policy at the European University Institute in the Florence School of Transnational Governance.
[2] Stone was also one of a handful of Centenary Professors at the University of Canberra where she was based in the now closed Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis.
During 1999, Stone worked at the World Bank Institute as a member of the Secretariat that launched the Global Development Network.
[5] Stone's research and publication has focused on the influence of ideas and expertise in policy making, and especially the impact of think tanks.