Ngaire Woods

Professor Ngaire Woods is the founding Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government and Professor of Global Economic Governance at Oxford University. Her research focuses on how to enhance the governance of organizations, the challenges of globalization, global development, and the role of international institutions and global economic governance. Previously, she founded the Global Economic Governance Programme at Oxford University and co-founded (with Robert O. Keohane) the Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellowship programme. She led the creation of the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University.

Ngaire Woods serves as a member of the International Advisory Panel of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, on the Board of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, and as a Rhodes Trustee. She is co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Values, Technology and Governance. She serves on the Advisory Group of the Center for Global Development (Washington DC). Previously, she served as a Non-Executive Director on the Arup Global Group Board and on the Board of the Center for International Governance Innovation in Canada. She has also served as a member of the IMF European Regional Advisory Group, and as an Advisor to the IMF Board, to the African Development Bank, to the UNDP’s Human Development Report, and to the Commonwealth Heads of Government. She has presented numerous documentaries for BBC Radio 4 and BBC TV2.

Ngaire Woods’ books include: The Politics of Global Regulation (with Walter Mattli, Oxford University Press, 2009), Networks of Influence? Developing Countries in a Networked Global Order (with Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, Oxford University Press, 2009), The Globalizers: the IMF, the World Bank and their Borrowers (Cornell University Press, 2006), Exporting Good Governance: Temptations and Challenges in Canada’s Aid Program (with Jennifer Welsh, Laurier University Press, 2007), and Making Self-Regulation Effective in Developing Countries (with Dana Brown, Oxford University Press, 2007). 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.

She was educated at Auckland University (BA in economics, LLB Hons in law). She studied at Balliol College, Oxford as a New Zealand Rhodes Scholar, completing an MPhil (with Distinction) and then DPhil (in 1992) in International Relations. 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 and academic roles at Oxford University.

Ngaire Woods has been appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2018 New Year's Honours for services to Higher Education and Public Policy.

BOOKS

The Politics of Global Regulation (with Walter Mattli), Princeton University Press, 2009.

Networks of Influence (with Leonardo Martinez), Oxford University Press, 2009.

Making Self-Regulation Effective in Developing Countries (with Dana Brown), Oxford University Press, 2007.

Exporting Good Governance (with Jennifer Welsh), Wilfred de Laurier University Press, 2007.

The Globalizers: the IMF, the World Bank and their Borrowers (Cornell University Press, 2006) (and also published by the India Research Press, New Delhi 2007), selected by Choice Magazine 2006 Outstanding Academic Title, and shortlisted (with 4 others) for the International Political Economy Group (IPEG) Book Prize 2007 of the British International Studies Association (BISA);

The Political Economy of Globalization (Macmillan Palgrave, 2000) (main contributor and editor)

Inequality and World Politics (Oxford University Press, 1999) (co-editor with Dr Andrew Hurrell and contributor)

Explaining International Relations since 1945 (Oxford University Press, 1996) (editor and contributor)

SELECTED PAPERS

Global Governance of AMR (with Connor Rochford, Devi Sridhar et al), The Lancet, Volume 391, No. 10134, p1976–1978, 19 May 2018

Theorizing the role of executive heads in international organizations (with Nina Hall), European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 24(4), p865–886, 30 November 2017

'The IMF's Unmet Challenges' (with Barry Eichengreen), Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 30, no. 1, Winter 2016. (pp. 29-52).

'Transforming Global Governance for the 21st Century' (with Alexander Betts, Jochen Prantl and Devi Sridhar), UNDP Occasional Paper 2013/09, UN, New York.

Global Governance after the Financial Crisis: A New Multilateralism or the Last Gasp of the Great Powers?, Global Policy, Vol.1, Issue 1, Pages 51 - 63 (2010).

'Governing Climate Change: Lessons from other Governance Regimes' (with Arunabha Ghosh) in Cameron Hepburn and Dieter Helm, The Economics and Politics of Climate Change (Oxford University Press, 2010).

'Developing Country Concerns about Climate Finance Proposals: Priorities, Trust, and the Credible Donor Problem' (with Arunabha Ghosh) in Richard Stewart, Benedict Kingsbury et al, Climate Finance: Regulatory and Funding Strategies for Climate Change and Global Development (New York : New York University Press : New York University Abu Dhabi Institute, 2009)