Robert Wade (scholar)
Robert Hunter Wade is a political economist and development scholar. He has been Professor of Global Political Economy at the Department of International Development, London School of Economics since 1999.
Early life
He was born in Australia to New Zealand diplomat parents. He therefore attended numerous schools worldwide, living in British Ceylon at the age of 12. He attended university in Dunedin, Wellington, and Sussex University.Career
He has worked at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Sussex. On leave from IDS, he worked at the World Bank; the Office of Technology Assessment 1988; Princeton University from 1989 to 1990; MIT from 1990 to 1991. He was professor of political economy at Brown University from 1996 to 1999 before joining the LSE in 2001. He held fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey 1992–1993, Russell Sage Foundation, New York 1997–1998, and the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin 2000–2001. In 2011 he was the Sanjaya Lall visiting professor at Oxford University.He also worked at the World Bank from 1984 to 1988. He has undertaken fieldwork in a range of countries including: Italy, India, Korea, Taiwan and Pitcairn Island and inside the World Bank.
Key works
Robert Wade is author of many books and scholarly articles including:- Wade, Robert H., Irrigation and Politics in South Korea
- Wade, Robert H., Village Republics: The Economic Conditions of Collective Action in India
- Wade, Robert H., Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asia's Industrialization