Professor Ngaire Woods CBE

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.

In speeches Ngaire provides a fresh perspective on global issues and considers how the world can solve its most critical challenges by working together.

She was appointed a CBE for services to Higher Education and Public Policy and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.