Background

Eric Helleiner is CIGI Chair in International Political Economy at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Professor of Political Science of the University of Waterloo. He received his PhD from the London School of Economics and is author of States and the Reemergence of Global Finance (Cornell University Press, 1994), The Making of National Money (Cornell University Press, 2003) and Towards North American Monetary Union? (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006). He is co-editor of a number of collections, including most recently Global Finance in Crisis (Routledge, 2010), The Future of the Dollar (Cornell University Press, 2009), The Geopolitics of Sovereign Wealth Funds (special section of Geopolitics  Vol. 14, No. 2, 2009), and At Home Abroad? The Dollar's Destiny as a World Currency (special issue of Review of International Political Economy Vol. 15, No. 3, 2008). He has published over 80 journal articles and book chapters on issues relating to international money and finance, as well as international political economy. He has won the Trudeau Foundation Fellows Prize, the Donner Book Prize, and Marvin Gelber Essay Prize in International Relations. He was recently a member of the Warwick Commission on International Financial Reform (2009) and is presently co-editor of the book series Cornell Studies in Money.