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Kevin Gallagher
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Dr. Kevin Gallagher is a professor of global development policy at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, where he directs the Global Development Policy Center. He is the author/co-author of six books: The China Triangle: Latin America’s China Boom and the Fate of the Washington Consensus, Ruling Capital: Emerging Markets and the Reregulation of Cross-Border Finance; The Clash of Globalizations: Essays on Trade and Development Policy; The Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization (with Roberto Porzecanski); The Enclave Economy: Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development in Mexico’s Silicon Valley (with Lyuba Zarsky); and Free Trade and the Environment: Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond. Gallagher serves on the United Nations’ Committee for Development Policy and the T-20 Task Force on International Financial Architecture at the G-20. His is also the international team leader of the Greening the Belt and Road Task Force of the China Council for International Cooperation and Development. He previously served on the investment sub-committee of the Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy at the U.S. Department of State and on the National Advisory Committee on the North American Free Trade Agreement at the Environmental Protection Agency. Gallagher has been a visiting or adjunct professor at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico, Tsinghua University in China, and the Center for State and Society in Argentina.
In just over a decade, China has become a global leader in development finance. China has established a number of bilateral and multilateral funds across ... Read More
In 2015 China’s two development banks provided upwards of $29 billion in loans to Latin American governments with the promise of more to come. The problem ... Read More
Latin America and Caribbean negotiators arrived at the global climate talks in Paris with ambitious plans. But without international development ... Read More
The World Bank annual meeting in Lima, Peru this weeks offers a unique opportunity. While China’s massive investments in infrastructure are much-needed, ... Read More
In the final stages of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, the U.S. is still pushing for the elimination of safeguards to regulate capital inflows ... Read More