Robert H. Wade is Professor of Global Political Economy at the London School of Economics. He has worked at the Institute of Development Studies (University of Sussex), the World Bank, Princeton University, MIT, and Brown University.
He is the author of Village Republics: Economic Conditions for Collective Action in South India (1988, 1994, 2007); Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization (1990, 2004).
The latter won the American Political Science Association’s award for the best book on political economy for 1989-1991. In 2008, he was awarded the Leontief Prize for pushing the boundaries of economic thought.
His speeches have been published in the Financial Times.