Robert Wade
Robert Wade is Professor of Political Economy and Development at LSE’s Development Studies Institute (DESTIN).
A New Zealander, he was educated in Washington DC, New Zealand and at Sussex University. He has worked at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, 1972-95, the World Bank, 1984-88, Princeton Woodrow Wilson School 1989/90, MIT Sloan School 1992 and Brown University 1996-2000.
He was a Fellow of Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton from 1992/93, at the Russell Sage Foundation 1997/98, and the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin 2000/01.
He continues to research for the World Bank. He is the author of many works including Irrigation and Politics in South Korea (1982), Village Republics: The Economic Conditions of Collective Action in India (1988, 1994), Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asia's Industrialization (1990, 2003). The latter won American Political Science Association's award of Best Book in Political Economy in1992.
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