Jacob Torfing

Jacob Torfing is an award-winning and decorated full professor in politics and institutions at Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University. He is the founder and director of the Roskilde School of Governance (previously known as the Centre for Democratic Network Governance). Recently, he was awarded the Danish degree of
Doctor Scientiarum Administrationis.

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He is a scientific expert in the fields of network governance, co-creation, public innovation, policy reform, institutional theory, and discourse analysis. He has chaired the Danish Political Science Association (DPSA), been a long-term member of the Danish Social Science Research Council and served at the Executive Committee of the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR). He has published 30 books and around 350 journal articles, book chapters and research communications that together have generated more than 29,000 Google Scholar citations (h-index 67). He appears regularly in Danish mass media as a commentator on public sector reforms and is a passionate public speaker with more than 30 public talks per year on topics such as public governance, collaborative innovation, platforms for co-creation etc.
He has been invited as visiting scholar at University of Vienna, Raboud University, University of Troms?, University of Bod?, Hong Kong University, University of Sao Paolo, University of Nagoya, University of Vermont, University of California Irvine, and University of California Berkeley (several times).
He has participated in many Danish and international research projects (total amount of external research funding exceeds 20 m. Euros and led the lion’s share of these projects.

Miroslav Beblavý

CEO of CB ESPRI, an impact investment fund and adjunct professor at Sciences Po in Paris and Hertie School in Berlin.

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Miroslav Beblavý is a Slovak investor, academic, economist, author and former politician. He is currently CEO of CB ESPRI, an impact investment fund and adjunct professor at Sciences Po in Paris and Hertie School in Berlin. He served three terms as an MP of the National Council of Slovakia (2010-2020) and State Secretary at the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Family (2002-2006). Academically, he worked as Assistant and Associate Professor of Public Policy at Comenius University in Slovakia (2006-2014), Senior Research Fellow at Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels (2010-2019) and Executive Director of Slovak Governance Institute (2001-2002, 2006-2009)