Ngaire Woods (pronounced "nyree") is 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. 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. Woods attended Rangitoto College in Mairangi Bay, Auckland, where she was Head Girl in 1980.[3] 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 (with Distinction) 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. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngaire_Woods Sebastian Mallaby (1964) is a British-born journalist and author; and director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies (CGS) and Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).[1] He is a contributing editor for the Financial Times and was a columnist and editorial board member at the Washington Post. In addition to a monthly column for the Financial Times, his recent writing has been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Atlantic Monthly. In 2012 he published a Foreign Affairs essay on the future of China's currency. His books include More Money Than God (2010) and The World’s Banker (2004). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Mallaby Jessica Tuchman Mathews (born July 4, 1946) has been president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a foreign policy think tank in Washington, D.C., since 1997.[1] She has held jobs in the executive and legislative branches of government, management and research in nonprofits, and journalism. She was a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations from 1993 to 1997 and served as director of the Council's Washington program.[5] While there, she published her seminal 1997 Foreign Affairs article, "Power Shift", chosen by the editors as one of the most influential in the journal's 75 years. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Mathews

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