Ngaire Woods

Biography

Professor Ngaire Woods is the founding Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government and Professor of Global Economic Governance. She is also the founder of the Global Economic Governance Programme at Oxford University and co-founder of the Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellowship programme. Her research focuses on how to enhance the governance of organisations, the challenges of globalisation, global development, and the role of international institutions and global economic governance.

Ngaire serves as a member of the International Advisory Panel of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, is on the Board of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, and is a Rhodes Trustee. She is also co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Values, Technology and Governance, and serves on the Advisory Group of the Center for Global Development in Washington DC. Previously, Ngaire served as a member of the IMF European Regional Advisory Group, and as an Advisor to the IMF Board, to the African Development Bank, to the UNDP’s Human Development Report, and to the Commonwealth Heads of Government.

Providing a fresh, big picture perspective on global issues, Ngaire considers how the world can solve its most critical, complex challenges by working together, and what that will take.