Career Award (2025)

The IPPA Career Award is awarded biennially. The award recognises the contribution of outstanding scholars to the development of the field of Public Policy and/or Public Administration. Recipients will be prominent scholars with an established record of theoretical and empirical scholarly publications and service to the profession, and who have advanced the fields of Public Policy and/or Public Administration.

Scholarly achievements include publication record, citations, editorships, institution building, mentoring doctoral students/researchers, significant and/or exceptional service to the Association or other institutions in the ‘field’; or other scholarly legacies.

Self-nomination is allowed but self-nominations must be accompanied by another supporting letter from an academic and/or policy researcher in a scholarly institution or research centre.

IMPORTANT DATES

Call for nominations: The deadline has been extended until February 20, 2025.
Results: March 20, 2025

Winner

Diane Stone

Professor

Professor Diane Stone is Chair of Global Policy and Academic Director in the Florence School of Transnational Governance at European University Institute In Italy. Previously she was Dean of the School of Public Policy at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest and Vienna. From late 2015 to mid 2019 she was Centenary Professor in the Institute of Governance and Policy Analysis at the University of Canberra. She has also been a Professor of Politics and International Studies at Warwick University from1996 through 2019. In 2004, she was awarded a four-year European Commission Marie Curie Chair to become the foundation Professor of Public Policy at CEU.

Professor Stone was one of the founding Vice Presidents of the International Public Policy Association 2014—2022. She has been Consulting Editor of the journal, Policy and Politics, and from 2005-2008 she was co-editor of Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions sponsored by the Academic Council of the United Nations System. Working at the World Bank Institute in Washington DC., she was a member of the Secretariat that launched in 1999 the Global Development Network (GDN) subsequently becoming a member of its Governing Body for three years when the GDN transitioned into an international organisation. For a decade until 2012, she was a member of the Council of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) - a London based think tank.

Specific research interests include the influence of ideas and expertise on policy, global policy and transnational administration; diplomacy; the political economy of higher education; conceptual developments in the study of policy networks; international philanthropy; the political process of lesson-drawing, policy transfer and translation; think tanks and policy advice.

Diane Stone’s Google Scholar profile can be found here

Grace Skogstad

University of Toronto

Michael Howlett

Simon Fraser University

Frank Fischer

Humboldt University in Berlin

Professor Diane Stone is a highly prolific scholar whose numerous publications over her career have significantly advanced the study of public policy. Her scholarship and publications on the roles of policy think tanks, policy transfer, global public policy, and transnational administration have been especially path-breaking. Diane Stone has also played a significant role in building institutions that advance the discipline of public policy, including as the inaugural Dean of the School of Public Policy at the Central European University and as a founding member and Vice President of IPPA. She has also served on editorial boards of several scholarly journals and academic presses.

Professor Stone’s contributions to the field of public policy extend well beyond academia. She was a member of the Secretariat that launched the Global Development Network in 1999 and subsequently served on its Governing Body. She has also served on the Council of the Overseas Development Institute. Finally, and not least, Professor Stone has importantly advanced the field of Public Policy through her mentorship of early career researchers, including by inviting them into her scholarly networks and co-publishing with them.