Background
Upon his retirement as full professor at the University of the Philippines in 2008, Walden Bello was asked to serve as the International Adjunct Professor by the department.By then he had achieved a global reputation as a scholar activist.He was especially active in providing a critique of globalization and interrogating its key institutions:the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization.For his scholarship and activism, he received the Right Livelihood Award (aka Alternative Nobel Prize) in 2003 and was named Outstanding Public Scholar by the International Studies Association in 2008. Also active in parliamentary politics, he was a member of the Philippines’ House of Representatives from 2009 to 2015, heading up that institution’s Committee on Overseas Workers’ Affairs.Education
- PhD, MA, Princeton University
- BA, Ateneo de Manila University
Research Interests
- Political Sociology
- Political Economy
- Globalization
- Social Movements
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Selected Publications:
- Against the Grain: the Global Food Crisis (Provisional Title) (London: 2009)
- Walden Bello Presents Ho Chi Minh (London: Verso, 2007)
- Dilemmas of Domination: the Unmaking of the American Empire (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2005)
- Co-author, The Anti-Developmental State: the Political Economy of Permanent Crisis in the Philippines (London: Zed Books, 2004)
- Deglobalization: Ideas for a New World Economy (London. Zed Books, 2002)
