Ramesh is a leading expert on social policies in East and Southeast Asia. He is the author or co-author of Social Policies in East and Southeast Asia, Welfare Capitalism in Southeast Asia, Studying Public Policy, and Canadian Political Economy. He has also published widely in senior refereed journals and is the Editor of the journal Policy and Society. His current research is on comparative political economy of People's Republic of China, Republic of India and Korea.
Ramesh has held teaching or visiting appointments in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Norway, and USA. He currently teaches business and government, globalisation and public policy and social policy. In addition, he has been involved in establishing professional associations in Political Science (APISA) and Public Policy (NAPSIPAG) in Asia. Ramesh is the Co-President of the Asian Political and International Studies Association for the 2005-2007 period.
M Ramesh
Associate Professor
PhD (Political Science),
University of British Columbia
Email: sppmr@nus.edu.sg
Darryl Jarvis specialises in risk analysis and the study of political and economic risk in Asia, including investment, regulatory and institutional risk analysis.
He is author and or editor of several books and has contributed articles to leading international journals. He has been a consultant to various government bodies and business organisations, and for two years was a member of the investigating team and then chief researcher on the Building Institutional Capacity in Asia (BICA) project commissioned by the Ministry of Finance, Japan. His current research is a large cross-national study of risk causality in four of Asia’s most dynamic industry sectors. He teaches courses on risk analysis, markets and international governance, and international political economy.
Darryl Jarvis
Associate ProfessorPhD (International Relations), University of British Columbia
Email: darryl.jarvis@nus.edu.sg
Stephen McBride (Professor) BSc(Econ) (Lond), MA, PhD (McM), specializes in political economy, and comparative public policy, and Canadian politics. He is the author of Not Working: State, Unemployment and Neo-conservatism in Canada (1992) which won the 1994 Smiley prize,and Paradigm Shift: Globalization and the Canadian State (2001; second edition 2005), co-author of Dismantling a Nation: Canada and the New World Order (1993; 2nd edition 1997) Recent co-edited Global Turbulence: Social Activists' and State Responses to Globalization (2003); Global Instability: Uncertainty and New Visions in Political Economy (2002), Globalization and its Discontents (2000), Power in a Global Era (2000). His current research is focused on the impact of globalization on the state, and the political economy of labour and the welfare state.
He is Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy at Simon Fraser University.
Stephen McBride
B.Sc. (Econ.) (London)
M.A., Ph.D. (McMaster)
Email: mcbridea@sfu.ca
Rodney Smith teaches Australian politics and political sociology. His main
research interests are Australian political parties and elections, political
culture, the treatment of politics in Australian literary fiction and the
empirical study of political ethics. He is currently working on a co-authored
book on contemporary Australian political fiction.
He has recently written Australian Political Culture (2001) and The New South Wales State Election 1999 (2000) and edited Politics in Australia (third edition, 1997). He has also published recent articles in Governance, The Australian Journal of Political Science, Legislative Studies and The Australian Religion Studies Review.
Rodney Smith
BA Qld. MA Qld. PhD Syd.
Email: r.smith@econ.usyd.edu.au