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Ngaire Woods is founder and director of the Global Economic Governance Programme at Oxford University which was established in 2003 to conduct research into how global economic institutions could better meet the needs of people in developing countries. She is also Dean of Graduates and Fellow in Politics and International Relations at University College. Her most recent book The Globalizers: the IMF, the World Bank and their borrowers is being published by Cornell University Press. She has previously published The Political Economy of Globalization (Macmillan, 2000), Inequality, Globalization and World Politics (with Andrew Hurrell: Oxford University Press, 1999), Explaining International Relations since 1945 (Oxford University Press, 1986), and numerous articles on international institutions, globalization, and governance.
Ngaire Woods was educated at Auckland University (BA in economics, LLB Hons in law). She studied at Balliol College, Oxford as a New Zealand Rhodes Scholarship completing an M.Phil in International Relations (with Distinction) and D.Phil. She won a Junior Research Fellowship at New College, Oxford (1990-1992) and subsequently taught at Harvard University (Government Department) before taking up her Fellowship at University College, Oxford.
Ngaire Woods is an Adviser to the UNDP's Human Development Report and has been a member of the Helsinki Process on global governance, of the resource group of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Commission into Threats, Challenges and Change, and a member of the Commonwealth Secretariat Expert Group on Democracy and Development established in 2002 which reported in 2004. She sits on the Board of the Overseas Development Institute (London) and is a member of the Advisory Group of the Center for Global Development (Washington DC). She is a member of the editorial board of the series Cambridge Studies in International Relations, and on the advisory boards of: Prospect (a British monthly); The Round Table: Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs; Demos (the British policy think-tank); the Journal of Global Social Policy; International Relations of the Asia Pacific; the Link Foundation for UK-NZ Relations; and the Wingate Foundation Scholarships Committee. She is a Governor of the Ditchley Foundation.
