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Rorden Michael E. C. Wilkinson (13 February 1970) FRSA is a British academic and author. He is a professor of International Relations and chair of the Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex. Until July 2014 he was a professor of International Political Economy in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester (where he had been since 1997) and Research Director in the Brooks World Poverty Institute. He previously held a faculty position in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has held a number of visiting academic positions including at Brown University, the Australian National University and Wellesley College.
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Professor Wilkinson graduated from the University of Liverpool with an undergraduate degree in economics and economic history, and from the University of Kent at Canterbury with a Masters in International Relations (from their London Centre for International Relations, now part of King's College London). He obtained his PhD from the University of Auckland in 1997.
Professor Wilkinson researches in the field of international political economy, specialising in fields including global governance, trade and poverty and development.
Along with Thomas G. Weiss he co-edits the Global Institutions book series for the commercial publisher Routledge, a series that has sought to be the reference point for work in the area; and he is a member of the Editorial Board of the international public policy journal Global Governance.
In 2011 he co-organised and convened the inaugural Global Poverty Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the 2014 recipient of the International Studies Association Society for Women in International Political Economy mentoring award.