Liana Giorgi works freelance in research, training and policy evaluation. She has extensive experience in project management as well as in the design and implementation of interdisciplinary and comparative research in various areas relevant for public policy such as social policy, research policy and infrastructure policy. She studied cognitive sciences at MIT (USA), social and political sciences at the University of Cambridge (GB) and psychoanalysis at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society (AT). She has published in the fields of political sociology and European integration. Book publications (as author, co-author and editor) include: Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere (Routledge 2011), Democracy in the European Union; Towards the Emergence of a Public Sphere (Routledge 2006), Income, Poverty and Social Exclusion in the European Union: Second European Social Report (Eurostat 2003), Policy and Project Evaluation (Ashgate 2001), The Post-Socialist Media: What Power the West? (Avebury 1995).