What We Do
The Financial Stability Board: Unlocking the Black BoxHigh-Level Panel on the Governance of the Financial Stability Board
Eric Helleiner
Professor, University of Waterloo, and CIGI Chair in International Political Economy
Eric Helleiner is CIGI Chair in International Political Economy at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Professor in the University of Waterloo’s Department of Political Science. He received his B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Toronto, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the Department of International Relations of the London School of Economics. His current research interests include: political economy of the current global financial crisis, international financial regulation, changing power in the international monetary and financial system, the history of international development, and North-South monetary relations in the postwar period. He is presently co-editor (with Jonathan Kirshner) of the book series Cornell Studies in Money and is a member of the editorial advisory boards of a number of international scholarly journals. He has also served as co-editor of the journal Review of International Political Economy and associate editor of the journal Policy Sciences. He has served as a member of the Warwick Commission on International Financial Reform and as a Governor of the Board for the IPE Section of the International Studies Association. He was founding director of the MA and PhD Programs in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. He has been a Canada Research Chair and has won the Trudeau Foundation Fellows Prize (2007-2010) as well as the Marvin Gelber Essay Prize in International Relations (awarded by the Canadian Institute for International Affairs). He has authored several books including Towards North American Monetary Union? The Politics and History of Canada’s Exchange Rate Regime (2006), The Making of National Money: Territorial Currencies in Historical Perspective (2003), and States and the Reemergence of Global Finance: From Bretton Woods to the 1990s (1994). He is co-editor of Global Finance in Crisis: The Politics of International Regulatory Change (2009), The Future of the Dollar (2009), Economic Nationalism in a Globalizing World (2005), and Nation-States and Money (1999).