is a PhD student at the Department of Politics and Public Policy and participant at the Centre for Urban Research on Austerity at De Montfort University (Leicester, UK). He focuses on Social Impact Bonds in the United Kingdom and the United States as part of a crisis governance strategy. He received his MA in Political Science from the University of Potsdam (Germany) and his BA from The New School in New York City. He is involved in initiatives countering the social polarization and de-democratization of neoliberal crisis management, and is interested in building links between critical research and engaged practice as part of a democratic renewal. Email: robert.ogman@gmail.com