Jan Aart Scholte, author of the IMF study, is Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of Warwick, UK. During 2006-7 he is Olof Palme Visiting Professor based at the University of Gothenburg.

 

He is author of Globalization: A Critical Introduction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 second edition), Civil Society and Global Democracy (Polity, forthcoming 2008), Civil Society Voices and the International Monetary Fund (North-South Institute, 2002) and International Relations of Social Change (Open University Press, 1993), co-author of Contesting Global Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2000), editor of Civil Society and Global Finance (Routledge, 2002), and co-editor of The Encyclopaedia of Globalization (Routledge, 2006). He is also an editor of the journal Global Governance and a member of the Steering Committee of the Globalization Studies.

 

During the workshop in Gothenburg Jan Aart Scholte’s IMF study was discussed by Bassirou Sarr, IMF and Jo Marie Griesgraber, New Rules for Global Finance. This discussion was chaired by Hans Abrahamsson, SGS and the outcome of the discussion was used to develop and refine the study which will be published in book form along with all the other case studies in 2009.