Ngaire Woods

Ngaire Woods
Ngaire Woods at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in 2011
Born	1962 or 1963 (age 61–62) New Zealand
Alma mater	University of Auckland University of Oxford
Scientific career
Institutions	University of Oxford
Thesis	Ethics and interests in the international political economy: the management of Mexican debt, 1982–1989  (1992)
Website	http://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/people/ngaire-woods

Ngaire Woods (pronounced /ˈnaɪriː/; born 1962 or 1963) is the founding dean of the Blavatnik School of Government and professor of Global Economic Governance at the University of Oxford. She founded and is the director of the Global Economic Governance Programme, and is co-founder (with Robert O. Keohane) of the Oxford–Princeton Global Leaders Fellowship programme. She was born in New Zealand.

Education

Woods attended Rangitoto College in Mairangi Bay, Auckland, where she was Head Girl in 1980. She then attended the University of Auckland where she graduated with a BA in economics and an LLB (Hons) in law. She studied at Balliol College, Oxford as a New Zealand Rhodes Scholar, completing an M.Phil in International Relations 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.

Career

Woods was named inaugural Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government in 2011. Her research focuses on global economic governance, the challenges of globalization, global development, and the role of international institutions.

Ngaire Woods has served as an Advisor to the IMF Board, to the UNDP Human Development Report, and to the Commonwealth Heads of Government. She was a regular presenter of the Analysis Program for BBC Radio 4, and in 1998 presented her own BBC TV series on public policy. She has also served as a member of the IMF European Regional Advisory Group, and Chair of a World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council. She is currently a Rhodes Trustee, a Non-Executive Director of Arup, a member of the Advisory Group of the Center for Global Development (Washington DC), a member of the Board of the Center for International Governance Innovation (Waterloo), a member of the Academic and Policy Board of Oxonia, and a Trustee of the Europeaum.

She is a governor of the Ditchley Foundation, and in 2009 she became a Trustee of the Rhodes Trust.

Books

• Woods, N. The Globalizers: the IMF, the World Bank, and their Borrowers, Cornell University Press, March 2006; ISBN 0-8014-4424-1
• Woods, N. The Political Economy of Globalization, Macmillan, 2000
• Woods, N. "Exporting Good Governance: Temptations and Challenges in Canada’s Aid Program" (with Jennifer Welsh, Laurier University Press, 2007)
• Woods, N. "Making Self-Regulation Effective in Developing Countries" (with Dana Brown, Oxford University Press, 2007)
• 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
• Mattli, W and Woods, N (Co-Author) The Politics of Global Regulation, Princeton University Press March 2009; ISBN 0-691-13961-X

External links

• Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
• Global Economic Governance Program