Rorden Wilkinson

Rorden Wilkinson FAcSS FRSA (born 13 February 1970) is a British academic and author. He is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) and Professor of International Political Economy at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He was previously Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education and Student Experience) and Professor of International Political Economy at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education and Innovation), Professor of Global Political Economy, and a Fellow of the UK Trade Policy Observatory at the University of Sussex; and Professor of International Political Economy and Research Director of the Brooks World Poverty Institute at the University of Manchester. He did his doctoral work and began his academic career at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has been a visiting scholar at Brown University, USA, Wellesley College, USA, and the Australian National University.

Biography
Wilkinson graduated from the University of Liverpool with an undergraduate degree in economics and economic history and from the University of Kent with a master's degree in international relations. He obtained his PhD from the University of Auckland in 1997.

He is a political economist working in the fields of international development and international political economy with a focus on global governance and international trade (notably the World Trade Organization).

From 2002 to 2021 Wilkinson and Thomas G. Weiss co-edited the Global Institutions book series for the commercial publisher Routledge. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Royal Society of Arts, and a member of the editorial board of the international public policy journal Global Governance. He is a past vice president of the International Studies Association and was the 2014 recipient of the International Studies Association Society for Women in International Political Economy mentoring award.

Authored books

 * Thomas G. Weiss and Rorden Wilkinson, Rethinking Global Governance, Cambridge: Polity, 2019
 * Rorden Wilkinson, What's Wrong with the WTO and How to Fix it, Cambridge: Polity, 2014
 * Rorden Wilkinson, The WTO: Crisis and the Governance of Global Trade, London and New York: Routledge, 2006
 * Rorden Wilkinson, Multilateralism and the World Trade Organisation: the architecture and extension of international trade regulation, London and New York: Routledge, 2000

Edited books

 * Thomas G. Weiss and Rorden Wilkinson (eds.), International Organization and Global Governance. London and New York: Routledge, 2023 (third edition)
 * Thomas G. Weiss and Rorden Wilkinson (eds.), Global Governance Futures. London and New York: Routledge, 2022
 * Thomas G. Weiss and Rorden Wilkinson (eds.), International Organization and Global Governance. London and New York: Routledge, 2018 (second edition)
 * Synne L. Dyvik, Jan Selby and Rorden Wilkinson (eds.), What's the Point of International Relations. London and New York: Routledge, 2017
 * Thomas G. Weiss and Rorden Wilkinson (eds.), International Organization and Global Governance. London and New York: Routledge, 2013
 * Rorden Wilkinson and David Hulme (eds), The Millennium Development Goals and Beyond. London and New York: Routledge, 2012
 * Rorden Wilkinson and James Scott (eds.), Trade, Poverty, Development. London and New York: Routledge, 2012
 * Jennifer Clapp and Rorden Wilkinson (eds.), Global Governance, Poverty and Inequality. Global Institutions. London and New York: Routledge, 2010
 * Mark Bevir, Colin Hay, Naomi Choi, Andy Smith, Rorden Wilkinson, Lisa Zanetti, Chris Ansell (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Governance. Sage, 2007
 * Donna Lee and Rorden Wilkinson (eds.), The WTO after Hong Kong: progress in, and prospects for, the Doha Development Agenda. London and New York: Routledge, 2007
 * Rorden Wilkinson (ed), The Global Governance Reader. London and New York, Routledge, 2005
 * Rorden Wilkinson and Steve Hughes (eds.), Global Governance: Critical Perspectives, London and New York: Routledge, 2002
 * Rorden Wilkinson (ed.), Culture, Ethnicity and Human Rights in International Relations, Auckland: NZIIA, 1996