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Manuela Moschella Editor & Author

Manuela Moschella is Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Turin, Italy. Previously, she was ‘Nino Andreatta Fellow’ at the University of Bologna, Italy and Visiting Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, USA and at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. She is the author of Governing Risk: The IMF and Global Financial Crises (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and one of the editors of Great Expectations, Slow Transformations: Incremental Change in Post-crisis Regulation (ECPR Press, 2013). Her core research interests include the politics of financial regulatory reforms and processes of change in global economic governance. She has published on these issues in a number of journals, including the Review of International Political Economy, New Political Economy, the Journal of Public Policy, and Comparative European Politics. Catherine Weaver is Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, where she directs the MA programme in Global Policy Studies and co-directs the research programme on Innovations for Peace and Development. She conducts extensive research on the organizational behaviour and reform of international financial institutions, the political economy of global development aid and the use of GIS (geographic information system) technology to track and map international development and climate adaptation aid world-wide. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, she is the author of Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform (Princeton University Press, 2008) and co-editor (with Nicola Phillips) of International Political Economy: Debating the Past, Present and Future (Routledge Press, 2010).