Robert Wade

Robert Wade is Professor of Political Economy at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He has written extensively on global economic governance, as well as worked in the World Bank for a number of years.

Wade’s publications include the development studies classic “Governing the Market” (Princeton University Press, 1992) and a number of articles analyzing the operations of the World Bank and the challenges it faces, such as “What the World Bank should do” (Challenge, 2007), “Showdown at the World Bank” (New Left Review, 2001) and “Japan, the World Bank and the art of paradigm maintenance” (New Left Review, 1996).

Wade is the 2008 winner of the “Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Though” and since 2006 officially among the "50 most influential economists of the world" as identified by the Financial Times.