Ngaire Woods

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Ngaire Woods (pronounced "nyree") (born 13 February 1963) is a New Zealand-born British academic.
Ngaire Woods at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in 2011

Education

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]

Appointments

Woods 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 admitted its first 39 scholars in September 2012.[6]

Books

References

  1. "Professor Ngaire Woods, Director, Global Economic Governance Programme". Global Economic Governance Programme. Department of Politics and International Relations. University of Oxford. 
  2. Blavatnik School of Government announcements University of Oxford, 6 October 2011
  3. "The Governors". The Ditchley Foundation. 
  4. Jeevan Vasagar New Oxford school of governance will 'groom future world leaders' The Guardian, 20 September 2010
  5. Graeme Paton Oxford University to open school of government The Telegraph, 20 September 2010
  6. "Blavatnik School of Government opens for study". University of Oxford Public Affairs Office.  20 September 2012

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