Professor Louis Pauly
Biography
Louis W.
Pauly, the J. Stefan Distinguished Professor of Political
Economy at the University of Toronto, established the Centre for the
Study of Global Japan in the Munk School of Global Affairs and
Public Policy in 2017 and directed it until June 2019. He remains an
affiliated faculty member of the Centre as well as of the Innovation
Policy Lab and the International Relations Program. He served as
Chair of the Department of Political Science from 2012 to 2017 and
held the Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Governance from
2002 to 2016. He was Director of the Centre for International
Studies at the U of T from 1997 to 2011. A graduate of Cornell
University, the London School of Economics, New York University, and
Fordham University, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a
Senior Fellow of Massey College, and a Fellow and Governing Board
Member of Trinity College (Toronto). He has held visiting positions
at the WZB Berlin Social Science Centre, Oxford University,
Northwestern University, Osaka City University, the University of
Munich, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, and the
Brookings Institution. With Emanuel Adler, from 2007 to 2012 he
edited International Organization, a top-ranked journal in
the fields of international relations and international political
economy. He was given the Distinguished Scholar Award in
International Political Economy by the International Studies
Association in 2015.
Before his initial appointment at the U of T in 1987, Pauly held
management positions in the Royal Bank of Canada, won an
International Affairs Fellowship from the Council on Foreign
Relations, and served on the staff of the International Monetary
Fund. His personal and collaborative publications include Power
in a Complex Global System; Hong Kong’s International
Financial Centre; Global Ordering: Institutions and
Autonomy in a Changing World; Global Liberalism and
Political Order; Complex Sovereignty: Reconstituting
Political Authority in the Twenty-First Century; Governing
the World’s Money; Democracy beyond the State? The
European Dilemma and the Emerging Global Order; The Myth
of the Global Corporation; Who Elected the Bankers?
Surveillance and Control in the World Economy; and Opening
Financial Markets: Banking Politics on the Pacific Rim.
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