Globalization; development; environment; World Bank Group, IMF, WTO; corporate social responsibility; mining, trade and investment fair trade; international labor rights; grassroots social movements; El Salvador; Philippines; right to water
Additional Information:
Prof. Robin Broad is an expert in the political economy of development. Her latest research and advocacy work focus on “responsible mining policy” in El Salvador, the Philippines, Ecuador, and Costa Rica; on investor-state disputes at the World Bank Group’s arbitration venue; and on “pro-water” social movements and government policies around the world.
Prior to coming to AU, Prof. Broad served at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, as the senior economist for then-Rep. Charles Schumer, at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and with civil-society organizations in the Philippines and El Salvador. After receiving the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, she co-authored The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed (Beacon Press, 2021).
Prof. Broad is also the author, coauthor, and editor of books that include: Development Redefined: How the Market Met Its Match (Paradigm Publishers, 2009); Global Backlash: Citizen Initiatives for a Just World Economy (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002); Plundering Paradise: The Struggle for the Environment in the Philippines (University of California Press, 1993); and Unequal Alliance: The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the Philippines (University of California Press, 1988).
Prof. Broad is widely published in publications including The Journal of Peasant Studies, Third World Quarterly, Foreign Policy, World Development, World Policy Journal, The Nation, the New York Times, The Washington Post, Triple Crisis, and The Hill. She has been quoted in the New Yorker and the Financial Times, among others.
Foreign Language Fluency:
n/a
Academic Credentials:
MA, PhD, Princeton University
Category:
Business-Employment, Business-Ethics, Business-International Business and Trade, Environment, Economics, Family-Children's Issues, World Bank and Developing Nations