Dr Robin Wilson is an independent researcher, ranging over issues of governance including intercultural integration and deliberative democracy. On the former he has advised the Council of Europe for 15 years, currently contributing to the Intercultural Cities programme. Earlier this year he co-wrote a paper on the adequacy of democracy in Northern Ireland, during which time the power-sharing system collapsed. This has led to a project which he is advising to establish a citizens' assembly there. He is author of The Northern Ireland Process of Conflict and Agreement: A Model for Export? (Manchester University Press, 2010) and Managing Cultural Diversity in Europe: Moving Beyond the Crisis (Edward Elgar, forthcoming).