Andrew Walter

Andrew Walter is professor of international relations in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne and a senior fellow in the Melbourne School of Government.

He has published widely on the political economy of monetary and financial issues, and is the author of East Asian Capitalism: Diversity, Change, and Continuity (Oxford University Press, 2012, edited with Xiaoke Zhang), China, the United States, and Global Order (Cambridge University Press, 2011, with Rosemary Foot), Analyzing the Global Political Economy (Princeton University Press, 2009, with Gautam Sen), Governing Finance: East Asia’s Adoption of Global Standards (Cornell University Press, 2008), and World Power and World Money (St Martin’s Press, 1993).

Until September 2012 he was reader in international political economy at the London School of Economics. Prior to this he was university lecturer in international relations at the University of Oxford. His current research is concerned with the political consequences of financial crises, the politics of financial regulation and emerging Asia in global governance.