Ann Florini is Senior Fellow in the Governance Studies Program at the Brookings
Institution and director of the World Economic Forum’s Global Governance Initiative.
From 1997 to 2002, she was Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace. She received her Ph.D. in political science from UCLA and a
Master’s in Public Affairs from Princeton University. She has previously been
associated with UCLA, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the United Nations
Association of the USA. She is the author of The Coming Democracy: New Rules for
Running a New World (Island Press, 2003). Her edited volume, The Third Force: The
Rise of Transnational Civil Society, was published in October 2000 by the Japan
Center for International Exchange and the Carnegie Endowment. She is co-author of
the monograph Secrets for Sale: How Commercial Satellite Imagery Will Change the
World. Her articles have appeared in such journals as Foreign Policy, International
Studies Quarterly, WorldLink, and International Security.