Professor of Political Sociology at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra
Nicole Curato is a Professor of Political Sociology at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. Her research demonstrates the transformative power of deliberative governance in fragile and conflict-affected settings. Recently, her research started focusing on building 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.
She 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.