Professional activities

Visiting Scholar/Invited Guest:

• EUI – Florence, Italy – Visiting Fellow in the School of Transnational Governance (September 2022 – February 2023).
• Sciences Po – Grenoble, France – I received one of -12 ERASMUS teaching fellowships. In addition to the teaching activities, I presented a public lecture for CNRS Research – Pacte Institute (2015).
• Free University Berlin, Germany – I ran a series of workshops related to the theory and process involved in international Policy Transfer and its role in knowledge updating of US cities environmental policies (23-24 March 2010).
• PACTE - Sciences Po Recherche Grenoble, France - invited to present three workshops on the role of policy transfer-policy learning, what is policy transfer, and the role of transfer in the future of EU governance, (28-29 May 2009).
• Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park, UK - The World’s View of America, (13-15 April 2007).
• ESRC-SOSIG, London, UK – weeklong virtual event occurring as part of the ESRC Social Science Week, (20-24 June 2005).
• ESRC Public Policy Seminar Church House Conference Centre, London - “Corporate Governance and the impacts of greater shareholder engagement”, (6 December 2004).

Membership on Grant Funding Body Panels:

• (2020 - Current) The OPUS funding scheme.
• (2020 - Current) The combined MAESTRO and SONATA-BIS funding schemes
• (2023) Chair of the SONATINA 7 Panel of Experts for the National Science Centre Poland (NCN)
• (2022) Chair of the SONATINA 6 Panel of Experts for the National Science Centre Poland (NCN)
• (2022 – Current) member of the UKRI Talent Panel College (TPC). The TPC is responsible for decision governing the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships (FLF), the Innovation Scholars, and future collective talent initiatives.
• (2020 – Current) The International Honour Society of Phi Kappa Phi. I sit on the expert review panel for the Study Aboard Grant Committee. This committee is tasked with reviewing, scoring and awarding grants to the Society’s Study Abroad Grant Scheme.
• (2007 – Current) I act as an Expert Referee for the US National Science Foundation. (I have reviewed 5 projects in total)
• (1998 – Current) I act as Expert Referee for the UK ESRC.
• (2015-17) I acted as Expert Referee for the Austrian National Science Foundation (Social Science Fund) (NSF)

Leadership Positions International:

• (2025-2029) Elected member of the Governing College for the International Public Policy Association

I have been invited to give over 30 keynote talks: Selected Highlights Include:

• ‘The rise of the River Chief – Can it transfer? International Working Group on Authoritarian Regimes Online (2-4 April 2024).
• ‘Situational Differences, Learning Autonomy and Policy transfer: The movement of the river chief system in China’, IPPA, Toronto, T02 P02 Policy transfer in the ‘Asian century’: When Asia exports policies to the rest of world, (27-29 June 2023).
• ‘What have we learned over the past decade of policy transfer research’, Online multi-event workshop/conference International Conference on Policy Diffusion and Development Cooperation II) (June 2020 – March 2021).
• ‘Micro processes of Transfer’, IOs in the Transfer process, University of Strasburg: France (26-30 July 2018)
• ‘Policy Transfer – Toward the Future’, International Seminar on Policy Diffusion, San Paulo: Brazil (17-19 May 2018).
• Structure Agency – which is more important in the transfer process? International Seminar on Policy Diffusion, San Paulo: Brazil (11 – 15 June 2016).

Over the past 10 years I have been invited to speak at over 40 conferences, meetings and other events. Some of the more relevant recent invitations are:

• (20-23 January 2026) (with Alessia Orazzo), COPPR, ‘Urban neighbourhood governance within China’, Bern, Switzerland.
• (12-15 July 2025), IPSA ‘The role of agency in the grid management system in China’, 2025 IPSA World Congress, Soul, South Korea.
• (2-5 July 2025), IPPC ‘The Role of Agency in shaping the structures of the River Chief System, 7th International Public Policy Conference (Chaing Mia, Thailand
• (7-8 July 2025), ‘The role of Structure and Agency in policy transfer: The case of China's River Chief System’, The 2025 International Conference on China Urban Development, UCL, London.
• (1-3 October 2024), ‘The Ambiguity and Integration of State and Society in China's Grid Management System’, Local social change in China: The state as social actor, Sciences Po, Centre for International Studies, Paris
• 13-16 April 2023, (with Cecilia Osorio Gonnet), ‘Neo-liberalism filtered: The experience of CCTs in South America’, MWPSA, Chicago
• (28-29 October 2022), ‘policy transfer in practice’, 4th Annual Conference: Out of Control? How Concepts and Practices Circulate across Boundaries, Mercator Saal, Gerhard-Mercator-Haus, Duisburg.
• (6 October 2022) ‘What have we learned from the global movement of ideas, policies, and paradigms’, Public Lecture, EUI Florence

Conference Roles

Policy Transfer in Latin America at International Conference on Policy Difussion, by Invitation (online, 2021)
II International Conference on Policy Diffusion and Development Cooperation, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Sao Paulo, 2020)
International Organisations and the Globalisation of Public Instruments and Ideas, by Invitation (Strasburg, 2018)
International Conference on Policy Diffusion and Development Cooperation, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2018)
Invited to participate in a workshop on the experiences of transferring governing institutions , by Invitation (Istituto Per Gli Studi Di Politica Internazionale, Milan, Italy , 2010)
‘Where have we gone in Political Science’s Understanding of Policy Transfer’, by Invitation (Universitá Degli Studi Di Pavia, Pavia, Italy, 2010)
Distinguished Speaker, by Invitation (European Health Forum, 2009)
Workshop , by Invitation (Sciences Po Recherche Grenoble, France , 2009)

Editorships

Migrations and Identities Book Series, Liverpool University Press (Joint Editor, 2009 - present)
Migrations and Identities (Editor, 2006 - 2009)
H-TEACHPOL (Editor, 2006 - present)
Liverpool Future (Editorial Board Member, 2005 - 2006)

Examination Roles

External Examiner for MPP Bristol University (PGT, 2018 - 2021)
University of Bristol, MSc Public Policy (PGT, 2018 - 2019)
University of Bristol, MPP External Examiner (2017)
University of Manchester, PhD (2010)
University of Limerick (Ireland), PhD (2009)

External Administrative or Committee Roles

External Expert, Invited (National Science Center, 2021 - present)
Member of Scholarship Committee, Invited (Phi Kappa Phi, 2021 - present)
Professor Mentor Scheme, Invited (Phi Kappa Phi, 2021 - present)
Member of the Selection Committee, Invited (Global Undergraduate Awards, 2021 - present)
Expert Reviewer, Invited (National Science Center, 2020 - present)
Advisory Board Member, Invited (2016 - 2023)

Grant Application Assessments

External Post-submission (National Science Center - Poland)
External Post-submission (National Science Center - Poland)
Internal Pre-submission (University of Liverpool)

Internal Administrative or Committee Roles

Faculty of HSS Internationalisation Committee (Faculty, 2021 - present)
Member of the Curriculum Review Committee (Department, 2021 - present)
XJTLU coordinator (Department, 2020 - present)
HSS Faculty Director of Post Graduate Studies (Faculty, 2019 - present)
Member of the LDC Oversight Committee (University, 2019 - present)
HSS Research and Impact Committee (Faculty, 2019 - present)

Media Appearances

multiple appearances, Radio (Invited)

Organisations I have been associated with

Global Undergraduate Awards (2021 - present)
MPSA - PH.D. Scholarship Committee (2021 - present)
MPSA - Professor Mentor Program (2021 - present)
APSA Mentor Program (2008 - present)
University of Puget Sound - ASK Program (2000 - present)
Advisor - Facilitator (2000 - 2017)
Cheadle Hulme - talks on US government and politics (2004 - present)
Voluntary work in the local community (2001 - present)

Professor David Dolowitz
Ph.D