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"Contributors" [2018] ELECD 1590; in Cogolati, Samuel; Wouters, Jan (eds), "The Commons and a New Global Governance" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) ix

Book Title: The Commons and a New Global Governance

Editor(s): Cogolati, Samuel; Wouters, Jan

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781788118507

Section Title: Contributors

Number of pages: 8

Extract:

Contributors Michel Bauwens is the founder and director of the P2P Foundation and works in collaboration with a global group of researchers in the exploration of commons, peer production, governance, and property. He is also research director of CommonsTransition.org a platform for policy development aimed towards a society of the Commons and a founding member of the Commons Strategies Group, with Silke Helfrich and David Bollier, organizers of major global conferences on the commons and economics. He has (co-)published various books and reports in English, Dutch and French, such as `Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy' (with Vasilis Kostakis). Michel currently lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand and last spring, crafted a Commons Transition Plan for the city of Ghent in Belgium, after a similar project for the State of Ecuador in 2014. For the next three years he is also adviser to SMart, a fast growing European labour mutual for autonomous workers. Maarja Beerkens is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Public Administration at Leiden University. Her research focuses on governance and public policy, with a special interest in the effects of market-based and self-regulatory policy instruments. Recently, she has stumbled on the complexities of globalization in public policy making, which has forced her to study the issues of global policy making, transnational networks, and stakeholder engagement. Currently she is studying the world-wide transition towards open access in science and she examines the interplay between bottom-up community initiatives, (trans)national policies, ...