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. He is a scientific expert in the fields of network governance, co-creation, public innovation, policy reform, institutional theory, and robust governance. 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 32 books and around 350 journal articles, book chapters and research communications that together have generated more than 32,000 Google Scholar citations (h-index 74). 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.