Timothy J. Sinclair

Timothy J. Sinclair is a political scientist who has written extensively on the politics of global finance. He is an expert on the major American credit rating agencies, Moody's Investors Service, Standard & Poor's, and Fitch.

Sinclair was born in Taumarunui, New Zealand in 1963, and was educated at Taumarunui Primary School, and at St. Andrew's College and the University of Canterbury in Christchurch. In 1988 and 1989 he worked as a trainee analyst at the New Zealand Treasury in Wellington. Sinclair completed his Ph.D. at York University in Toronto and joined the University of Warwick in 1995. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, the University of York (UK), and the University of Sheffield.

External links

• Read an interview with Timothy Sinclair by Theory Talks (May 2008)
• Homepage at the University of Warwick