International Trends in Lobbying Regulation: Lessons Learned for Ireland
Speaker Biographies
- Prof Frank Baumgartner
- Dr Raj Chari
- Ms Lucy Cronin
- Mrs Lynn Morrison
- Dr Gary Murphy
- Dr Stephen Stacey
Frank R. Baumgartner is the Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professor of Political Science at The
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He joined the department in 2009 as the first holder of the
Richardson professorship. A native Detroiter, he attended Detroit's Cass Technical High School and then
received all his academic degrees at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (BA 1980; MA 1983, PhD 1986).
He held academic positions at The University of Iowa (1986-87); Texas A&M University (1987-98); and
Penn State University (1998-2009) where he served as Department Head (1999-2004), Distinguished
Professor (2005-07), and then was the first holder of the Bruce R. Miller and Dean D. LaVigne
Professorship (2007-09). He has had visiting professor appointments at Caltech (1998-99) and at the
universities of Michigan, Washington, Bergen (Norway), Aberdeen (Scotland), the Institute for Public
Management (Paris), Sciences Po (Paris), the European University Institute (EUI, Florence, Italy), and the
Camargo Foundation (Cassis, France). He has a continuing appointment as a visiting researcher at the
Center for European Studies / Sciences Po in Paris, and teaches a graduate class in public policy there each
May-June.
His work focuses on public policy, agenda-setting, and interest groups in American and comparative
politics and has appeared in such journals as the American Political Science Review, American Journal of
Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Comparative Politics, the Journal of European Public Policy, and
Legislative Studies Quarterly.
Raj Chari is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), having earned his Ph.D. from Queen's University (Canada). He was also elected Director of TCD's Centre for European Studies between 2005 and 2008. His previous experience includes being a Collaborative Researcher for the Institut International d'Administration Publique (IIAP) and serving as a research assistant for Nuffield College (Oxford) under the direction of the late Prof. Vincent Wright. Chari's research has been broadly centred on two main themes. The first is analysis of public policy and the role of different policy making actors at both the domestic and EU levels of governance. The second includes work on political parties and elections, with a particular focus on southern Europe. Articles have appeared in journals such as Government and Opposition, Electoral Studies, Political Quarterly, West European Politics and the Journal of European Public Policy and he has co-authored Understanding EU Policy Making (2006).
Lucy Cronin has been active in public affairs for 14 years. A partner of Policy Action, Lucy has a proven track record in implementing successful lobbying campaigns at both EU and national level and manages a wide-range of pan-European trade associations across all Policy Action practice areas. A Trinity College Dublin graduate (BA in Modern European Studies), Lucy holds a Masters in International Politics from Université Libre de Bruxelles. Prior to engaging in the public affairs industry she worked at the Secretariat of the Council of the EU, in the trade and competition practices of the Coudert Brothers Brussels office and for HOTREC, the European Federation of Hotels, Cafés and Restaurants. Her areas of expertise include EU and member state policymaking, gambling, IT and entertainment, health, urban planning and financial services.
Lynn Morrison was appointed Integrity Commissioner in Ontario on 13 April 2010, having served in an acting capacity since 2007. She has worked with the Office of Integrity Commissioner since its creation in 1988, serving as the province's Delegated Lobbyist Registrar since 1999. With 30 years experience in the public service, Commissioner Morrison's previous positions included Executive Administrative Officer and Director of the Office. She has served as the Administrative Assistant to the Chief Justice of the High Court, now the Superior Court of Justice, and the Executive Assistant to the Chair of the Workers' Compensation Appeals Tribunal, now the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal.
Gary Murphy is Associate Professor of Government in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University where is he also the University's Director of Graduate Research. He has written extensively on post war Irish politics and on contemporary Ireland and has authored and co-authored five books and over 30 articles and book chapters. He is also a former editor of the leading journal in Irish political science, Irish Political Studies (2002-5). He is a regular contributor to Irish broadcasting outlets on Irish and American politics and was one of RTE's main analysts for the Irish Lisbon treaty referendum in June 2008 and the US Presidential election in November 2008. In his role as DCU's Director of Graduate Research he oversees policies and procedures in relation to the University's 700 postgraduate research students.
Stephen Stacey has worked at Toyota's European headquarters since 2001 and is currently dual function General Manager, Regulatory and Technical Affairs and General Manager, European and Government Affairs. Recent lobbying work has included the launch of demonstration projects for Toyota's plug-in hybrid car in eighteen European countries including Ireland. Before joining Toyota, he founded ADS Insight, the Brussels-based transport and environmental policy consulting firm, and was Managing Director of an international trade policy consultancy working mainly with Japanese companies exporting to Europe. For five years from 1987 he was a Board Director of a UK consultancy where his lobbying assignments ranged from the deregulation of the sale of reading glasses to the breaking of the tie between public houses and brewers. He began his professional career as a university researcher and teacher and was for a while an archivist at Oxford's Bodleian Library. He has a postgraduate diploma in EC competition law from King's College, London and a degree and a doctorate in modern history from Oxford. He sits on the Management Board of the European Centre for Public Affairs and is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Communication Management.