Nicole Curato is a Professor of Democratic Governance at the University of Birmingham. Her research demonstrates the transformative power of deliberative governance in fragile and conflict-affected settings, examining the enabling conditions for marginalised communities to assert their voices in policymaking and implementation to secure better outcomes. Recently, she has started focusing on how to build a 'global deliberative democracy' inspired by decolonial theory and practice, critical historiography, and ambitious democratic experiments such as the Global Assembly on the Climate and Ecological Crisis.

Curato is the founder of the Global Citizens’ Assembly Network (GloCAN), former editor of the Journal of Deliberative Democracy, founding editor of the Deliberative Democracy Digest, and founder of the Deliberative Democracy Summer School. She has published three books on deliberative democracy, numerous journal articles, public reports, and op-eds for outlets like The New York Times, The Guardian, and Australian Foreign Affairs.