Morten Ougaard, author of the OECD study, is Professor of International Political Economy and Program Director, International Business and Politics at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

His principal publications include Political Globalization: State, Power, and Social Forces (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) and FN og global organisering på det økonomisk-sociale område [UN and Global Organization in Economic and Social Areas] (Danish Institute of International Studies, 1998), as well as co-edited volumes on The Third World in the Global Governance System (Aalborg University, 2003) and Towards a Global Polity (Routledge, 2002). He has written on the OECD for The Encyclopedia of Globalization (Routledge, forthcoming) and the Seminar on Globalisation, Statehood and World Order (Florence, 1999).