Eric Helleiner
Professor
CIGI Chair in International Political Economy
PhD (LSE)

Contact Information:

Office: HH 309

Phone: ext. 33955
Email: ehellein @ uwaterloo.ca

Background: Eric Helleiner is CIGI Chair in International Political Economy and Professor in the Department of Political Science of the University of Waterloo. 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. He is author of States and the Reemergence of Global Finance (1994), The Making of National Money: Territorial Currencies in Historical Perspective (2003), and Towards North American Monetary Union? The Politics and History of Canada’s Exchange Rate Regime (2006) as well as co-editor of Nation-States and Money (1999), Economic Nationalism in a Globalizing World (2005), The Future of the Dollar (2009) and Global Finance in Crisis: The Politics of International Regulatory Change (2010). He has edited/co-edited a number of special issues/sections of journals on the following topics: The Political Economy of International Capital Mobility (1994), The Geopolitics of North-South Monetary Relations (2002), The Dollar's Destiny as a World Currency (2008), The Geopolitics of Sovereign Wealth Funds (2009), Crisis and the Future of Global Financial Governance (2009), and The Greening of Global Financial Markets? (2011). He has also published many journal articles and book chapters on other issues relating to international political economy, and has been a member of the Warwick Commission on International Financial Reform and the High Level Panel on the Governance of the Financial Stability Board. He has won the Trudeau Foundation Fellows Prize, the Donner Book Prize, Marvin Gelber Essay Prize in International Relations, and the Symons Award for Excellence in Teaching. He has been a Canada Research Chair and was founding Director of the MA and PhD Programs in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. He is presently co-editor of the book series Cornell Studies in Money, and has served as co-editor of the journal Review of International Political Economy and associate editor of the journal Policy Sciences. He has taught courses on topics such as international political economy, globalization, global governance, politics of global finance, the state and economic life, and North American integration. His current research interests include: global financial crises and regulation, shifting power in the international monetary system, the origins of international development, and the history of IPE thought.

• Dr. Helleiner's CV

• Dr Helleiner's Ballsillie School of International Affairs webpage