Ann Florini is Visiting Professor and Director of the Centre on Asia and Globalization at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. She is also Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. She is internationally recognized as an authority on new approaches to global governance, focusing on the roles of information flows, civil society, and the private sector in addressing global issues. Currently, she is examining governance in the energy sector and climate change.

Her publications include The Right to Know: Transparency for an Open World (Columbia University Press, May 2007); The Coming Democracy: New Rules for Running a New World (Island Press, 2003/Brookings Press 2005); and The Third Force: The Rise of Transnational Civil Society (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace/Japan Center for International Exchange, 2000), along with numerous scholarly and policy articles in such journals as International Security, International Studies Quarterly, and Foreign Policy. Dr. Florini received her Ph.D. in political science from UCLA and a Master's in Public Affairs from Princeton University.