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Taylor St John St Antony’s College 62 Woodstock Road Oxford OX2 6JF www.taylorstjohn.com [email protected] Present Appointment Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Global Economic Governance Institution: Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford Tenable: October 2014–April 2016 Education Doctor of Philosophy in International Development Class: Passed with no corrections Institution: St Antony’s College, University of Oxford Date of Award: submitted October 2014, viva voce March 2015 Dissertation: The Power of Modest Multilateralism: the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), 1964–1980 Supervisors: Professor EVK Fitzgerald (economics, international development) Professor Ngaire Woods (international relations, government) Master of Science in Global Governance and Diplomacy Class: with distinction Institution: St Antony’s College, University of Oxford Date of Award: August 2008 Bachelor of Arts in International Political Economy Class: summa cum laude (class rank: 1) Institution: College of Idaho Date of Award: June 2007 Publications In Progress (abstracts or full texts available at www.taylorstjohn.com) The Challenges of Researching the Political History of Legal Conventions Forthcoming as a chapter in “International Investment Law and History,” a volume edited by Stephan Schill, Christian Tams, and Rainer Hofmann Amid Failure: Judicialization in the Wake of Stalled Multilateral Negotiations Presented at the Investment Law and Policy Group, London, November 2014 Accepted for presentation at the European Society of International Law (ESIL) Conference, 2015 Submitted as part of a panel to the International Studies Association (ISA) Conference, 2016 Who Needs Rules? Explaining Participation in the International Investment Regime (with Noel Johnston) Accepted for presentation at the European Political Science Association (EPSA) Conference, 2015 Accepted for presentation at the American Political Science Association (APSA) Conference, 2015
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Taylor St John
St Antonys College 62 Woodstock Road
Oxford OX2 6JF www.taylor-stjohn.com
Present Appointment Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Global Economic Governance Institution: Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford Tenable: October 2014April 2016
Education Doctor of Philosophy in International Development Class: Passed with no corrections Institution: St Antonys College, University of Oxford Date of Award: submitted October 2014, viva voce March 2015 Dissertation: The Power of Modest Multilateralism: the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), 19641980 Supervisors: Professor EVK Fitzgerald (economics, international development)
Professor Ngaire Woods (international relations, government)
Master of Science in Global Governance and Diplomacy Class: with distinction Institution: St Antonys College, University of Oxford Date of Award: August 2008 Bachelor of Arts in International Political Economy Class: summa cum laude (class rank: 1) Institution: College of Idaho Date of Award: June 2007
Publications In Progress (abstracts or full texts available at www.taylor-stjohn.com) The Challenges of Researching the Political History of Legal Conventions
Forthcoming as a chapter in International Investment Law and History, a volume edited by Stephan Schill, Christian Tams, and Rainer Hofmann
Amid Failure: Judicialization in the Wake of Stalled Multilateral Negotiations
Presented at the Investment Law and Policy Group, London, November 2014 Accepted for presentation at the European Society of International Law (ESIL) Conference, 2015 Submitted as part of a panel to the International Studies Association (ISA) Conference, 2016
Who Needs Rules? Explaining Participation in the International Investment Regime (with Noel Johnston)
Accepted for presentation at the European Political Science Association (EPSA) Conference, 2015 Accepted for presentation at the American Political Science Association (APSA) Conference, 2015
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Taylor St John Curriculum Vitae | 2
Entrepreneurial Agents and the Forgotten Origins of Investment Treaty Arbitration Presented at The Political Economy of International Investment Agreements Conference at Deutsches
Institut fr Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Bonn, December 2014 Published as Oxford Global Economic Governance (GEG) Working Paper 94
Completed State Interpretations of Investment Treaties: Feasible Strategies for Developing Countries (with Geoffrey Gertz). GEG Policy Brief. June 2015.
Bringing the State Back In: Reconciling Public and Private Interests in the International Investment Regime (with Geoffrey Gertz). GEG Policy Brief. January 2015. Ukraine Versus the Vultures (with Ngaire Woods). Project Syndicate. 17 March 2014. Translated into 8 languages, reprinted in Le Monde (as Kiev menac par ses cranciers, 22 March 2014) and elsewhere. New Thinking on Spillovers: How are Emerging and Developing Countries Affected by Monetary and Regulatory Spillovers from Advanced Economies? (with Geoffrey Gertz and Maxwell Watson). GEG Policy Brief. May 2014. How Can Africa Flourish with Ethnic Diversity? (edited with Hiroyuki Hino and John Lonsdale). Kobe: Kobe University Press. 2013. Summary of Proceedings: Multilateral Liberalization through Bilateral Investment Treaties? GEG Memos from a Workshop on Global Governance. June 2012. All Politics is Local (book review). Oxonian Review, Issue 9.1. 27 April 2009. Review, Response, and Rejoinder: McKinsey and Oxfam Reports on Social Responsibility and Shareholder Activism (with Daniel Hemel). St Antonys International Review 5 (1): 122132. April 2009.
Awards Oxford-Marshall Scholarship (full doctoral funding) 2009-2012 Marshall Scholarship (full masters funding) 2007-2009 Presidential Scholarship (full undergraduate funding) 2004-2007
Research Experience Senior Researcher (previously Research Associate) 2011-cont Global Economic Governance Programme, Oxford
Lead the Programmes work on investment treaties. Commission working papers, policy briefs, opinion pieces; review and edit all work published on
investment; and set the investment teams research agenda. Convened three high-level workshops related to investment treaties. In April 2015, I led a workshop on
interpretation of investment treaties with negotiators from 14 countries in Santiago, Chile. This built on a 2014 workshop titled Reshaping the International Investment Regime: Lessons From Latin America? attended by expert academics, negotiators and arbitrators in Oxford. In June 2012, I convened a workshop in Oxford titled Multilateral Liberalization through Bilateral Investment Treaties?
Research Assistant 2012-2014 Professor Duncan Snidal, Nuffield College, and Dr Karolina Milewicz, University College, Oxford
Led the empirical research for a project on informal international organizations, with a particular focus on global economic governance actors, like the G20 and Basel Committee.
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Rapporteur 2012-2013 Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Research Agency, Tokyo
Wrote the first draft of How Can Africa Flourish with Ethnic Diversity? a book synthesizing the work of top scholars (Dan Posner, Ernest Ayreetey, Benno Ndulu).
Research Assistant 2008-2009 Professor Ngaire Woods, University College, Oxford
Collected, prepared, and analyzed new data for Professor Woods Report to the European Parliament on Responses to the Financial Crisis.
Teaching and Related Experience Thesis Supervisor, Masters Thesis on South African Investment Treaties 2013-2014 Tutor, Undergraduate Course on American Legislative Politics 2012-2013 Visiting Professor, Undergraduate Course on the Political Economy of Foreign Aid 2011-2012 Lecture Series Coordinator, Department of International Development 2008-2010 Book Editor and Contributor, St Antonys International Review 2008-2009 Visiting Researcher, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore 2005-2006
References Professor Ngaire Woods Dean of Blavatnik School of Government University College High Street Oxford OX1 4BH [email protected]
Professor EVK FitzGerald Professor of International Development Finance St Antonys College 62 Woodstock Road Oxford OX2 6JF [email protected]
Dr Lauge Skovgaard Poulsen Lecturer in International Political Economy University College London 31 Tavistock Square London WC1H 9QU [email protected]
