David Bromell worked in senior policy advice roles in New Zealand’s central and local government from 2003 to 2020. Following a secondment to the Institute of Policy Studies at Victoria University of Wellington in 2007, he became a Senior Associate of the Institute and its successor body, the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, and in July 2023 was appointed as an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the School of Government. From 2012 to 2020, he co-designed and taught with Jonathan Boston a post-graduate, post-experience course on political philosophy and public policy. Further opportunities to learn, reflect, and write came from visiting research fellowships at the University of Otago (May 2011), the NRW School of Governance in Duisburg, Germany (May–July 2016), and the Center for Advanced Internet Studies in Bochum, Germany (October 2020–March 2021). His previous Springer publications on public policy are: The art and craft of policy advising (2nd ed., 2022),Regulating free speech in a digital age (2022) and Ethical competencies for public leadership (2019).