Michael Neblo holds the Ann and Darrell Dreher Chair in Political Communication and Policy Thinking and is Professor of Political Science and (by courtesy) Philosophy, Communication, and Public Affairs at The Ohio State University, where he directs the Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability (IDEA). A scholar of political deliberation and evidence-based democratic reform, he is the author of Deliberative Democracy Between Theory & Practice and co-author of Politics with the People. Prof. Neblo developed the concept of Deliberative Town Halls and has organized many for the U.S. Congress, in addition to testifying four times on citizen engagement and democratic innovation. He has also implemented DTHs to support Northern Ireland’s reassessment of the Good Friday Accords, the Chilean Constitutional Convention, and the parliaments of Australia, Nigeria, the United Kingdom, and Malawi, as well as several sub- and transnational jurisdictions. He has projects planned to continue work in Nigeria, the U.S., Malawi, and Australia, as well as new projects in Korea, Italy, Japan, and the European Union. He was awarded an Andrew Carnegie fellowship and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation fellowship, in addition to numerous grants and awards for his research and community-engaged scholarship. Neblo holds a PhD in political science from the University of Chicago and a BA in Philosophy and Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences from Northwestern University. 

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