Ph.D. Candidate, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
As a graduate of Harvard Kennedy School and LUISS University in Rome, Elena Fagotto is a faculty affiliate at LUISS School of Government, where she teaches about innovations in governance, and a Ph.D. candidate at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She has been a senior research associate with the Transparency Policy Project at Harvard University. More | Contact

Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
Lindsay Mayka is a post-doctoral Democracy Fellow at the Ash Center. In December 2012, she will complete her Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. Mayka also earned a master’s in public policy from Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy in 2008 and a bachelor’s degree from Carleton College. More | Contact

Assistant Professor, University College Cork
Alfred Moore is a Marie Curie Research Fellow working on a three year project titled “Epistemology and Democracy in Complex Societies,” supported by the EU’s FP7 program. He is visiting the Ash Center from University College Cork (UCC), Ireland, where he is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy. More | Contact

Ph.D. Candidate, University of Minais Gerais, Brazil
Viviane Petinelli e Silva is a Ph.D. student in political science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. She also serves as a graduate teaching assistant for the public management degree offered by Federal University, and an assistant professor of some short courses offered by the Brazilian Federal Government for civil servants. More | Contact

Ph.D. Candidate, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Laura Roth holds a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires and studied law at the University of Buenos Aires. She finished her master's degree in legal sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona in 2009. Roth is currently a Ph.D. student at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. More | Contact

Ph.D., Harvard University
Hollie Russon-Gilman holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Government at Harvard University. She holds an A.B. from the University of Chicago with highest honors in political science. Her research interests include the impact of technology on government transparency, civic engagement, as well as democratic innovations with a particular focus on deliberative democracy in context. More | Contact

Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University
Emma Saunders-Hastings is a Ph.D. candidate in political theory at Harvard University’s Department of Government. Her interests include democratic theory, theories of distributive justice and inequality, and feminist theories. Her doctoral research examines private philanthropy as a problem for democratic governance. More | Contact

SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School
Jennifer Shahkbatur’s dissertation examines the effects of information technologies on transparency, accountability, and citizen participation in three regulatory institutions: administrative agencies, international organizations, and local governments. She explores emerging national and international policies, including online open data and freedom of information. More | Contact

Shauna Shames, Ph.D Candidate, Harvard University
Shames focuses on the study of race, gender, identity, and inequality in American politics. She has published articles, reports, and book chapters on women as candidates, black women in Congress, comparative child care policy, work/family conflict, abortion, feminism in the U.S. and internationally, gay and lesbian rights, and public opinion. More | Contact

Ph.D., Yale University
Paolo Spada received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University in May 2012. Spada also holds a Ph.D. in economics from Bologna University (2006). His research and teaching interests lie in comparative politics, political economy, urban politics, Latin American politics, deliberative democracy, experimental social science, and formal/quantitative methods.More | Contact

Associate Professor of Political Science, Istanbul University
Kıvanç Ulusoy was previously a Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, Florence, and a fellow at the Madrid Diplomatic School. His areas of research include regime change and democratization, Turkish politics, Turkey-European Union relations, and Spanish politics. More | Contact