FPIF Advisory Committee Member*

John Cavanagh
Director, Institute for Policy Studies

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John Cavanagh has been Director of the Institute for Policy Studies since 1998. He is the co-author of 11 books on the global economy, most recently Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible (with 18 others, Berrett-Koehler, November 2002).

Cavanagh holds a BA from Dartmouth College and an MA from Princeton University. He was an international economist at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (1978-1981) and the World Health Organization (1981-1982). Between 1983 and 1997, he was director of the Global Economy program at IPS.

Cavanagh's other books include: Global Dreams: Imperial Corporations and the New World Order (with Richard J. Barnet) and Plundering Paradise: The Struggle for the Environment in the Philippines (with Robin Broad). He has written hundreds of articles in such publications as the Washington Post, the New York Times, Foreign Policy, and The Nation.

Cavanagh serves on the boards of several organizations, including the Alliance for Responsible Trade, the International Forum on Globalization, the International Labor Rights Fund, the Interhemispheric Resource Center, the Transnational Institute, the Fund for Constitutional Government, and the Transnational Research and Action Center. He co-chairs the Civil Society Committee of the United Nations Development Program.

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* Note from the FPIF Editor: Although the Advisory Committee shares FPIF's broad principles of internationalism, human rights, anti-militarism, and sustainable development, FPIF doesn't expect all members necessarily to agree with or endorse all the policy prescriptions that we publish.