Ngaire Woods

Ngaire Woods is the Founder and Director of the Global Economic Governance Programme at the University of Oxford, which focuses on investigating how global institutions could better respond to the needs of developing countries.

Woods' recent books include “Networks of Influence? Developing Countries in a Networked Global Order” (with Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, Oxford University Press, 2009) and ‘The Politics of Global Regulation’ (with Walter Mattli, Oxford University Press, 2009).

Woods was recently appointed by the European Parliament to do a study on ‘The international response to the global crisis and the reform of the international financial and aid architecture’ (2009). Other recent publications include ‘The Globalizers: the IMF, the World Bank and their Borrowers’ (Cornell University Press, 2006), and “Making Self-Regulation Effective in Developing Countries” (with Dana Brown, Oxford University Press, 2007).