Rorden Wilkinson is Professor of International Political Economy in Politics, School of Social Sciences, and Associate Director of the Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI) at the University of Manchester, UK.  He is a specialist in international trade, global governance, development and globalisation.  He is author of, among other things, The WTO: Crisis and the governance of global trade (Routledge, 2006) and Multilateralism and the World Trade Organisation (Routledge, 2000); editor of The Global Governance Reader (Routledge, 2005); and co-editor of Global Governance, Poverty and Inequality (forthcoming, 2010), The WTO after Hong Kong (Routledge, 2007) and Global Governance: Critical Perspectives (Routledge, 2002).  He also co-edits the Global Institutions series for Routledge.