- Ngaire Woods
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Ngaire Woods (pronounced "nyree") (born 13 February 1963) is a New Zealand-born British academic.
Woods was educated at the University of Auckland where she graduated with a BA in economics and a LLB (Hons) in law. She studied at Balliol College, Oxford as a New Zealand Rhodes Scholar, completing an M.Phil in International Relations (with Distinction) and a D.Phil. From 1990 to 1992, she was a Junior Research Fellow at New College, Oxford and subsequently taught at the Government Department at Harvard University before taking up her Fellowship at University College, Oxford.[1]
She is Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government [2]at Oxford University and a Professor of International Political Economy and fellow in Politics and International Relations at University College, Oxford, and Director of the Global Economic Governance Programme at the Department of Politics and International Relations and Centre for International Studies of the University of Oxford. Her major academic interests include the United Nations and globalization. She also teaches for the TRIUM Global Executive MBA Program, an alliance of NYU Stern, the London School of Economics and HEC School of Management.
Professor Woods is a member of the editorial advisory board for the Ethics & International Affairs journal. She is a governor of the Ditchley Foundation.[3] In 2009 she became a Trustee of the Rhodes Trust. She is also the Academic Director[4] of the Blavatnik School of Government[5] which will admit its first students in 2012.
Books
- Woods, N. The Political Economy of Globalization Macmillan.
- Woods, N. (editor) Explaining International Relations since 1945. Oxford University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-19-874196-0.
- Woods, N. (Co-Author) Inequality, Globalization, and World Politics. Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-19-829567-7
- Woods, N. The Globalizers: the IMF, the World Bank, and their Borrowers Cornell University Press, March 2006. ISBN 0801444241.
- Mattli, W and Woods, N (co-Author) The Politics of Global Regulation. Princeton University Press March 2009. ISBN 069113961X.
References
- ^ "Ngaire Woods Staff Biography". http://www.globaleconomicgovernance.org/professor-ngaire-woods.
- ^ Blavatnik School of Government announcements - University of Oxford
- ^ "The Ditchley Foundation: The Governors". http://www.ditchley.co.uk/page/64/the-governors.htm.
- ^ Jeevan Vasagar "New Oxford school of governance will 'groom future world leaders'", The Guardian, 20 September 2010
- ^ Graeme Paton "Oxford University to open school of government", The Daily Telegraph, 20 September 2010
External links
- Global Economic Governance Program
- Home page at the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford
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