Cornel Ban is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Frederick S. Pardee School for Global Studies at Boston University. He is also Co-Director of the Global Economic Governance Initiative and a member of the Center for Finance, Law and Policy at the same university. Cornel holds two Bachelor’s degrees from Babeș-Bolyai University (in Law and English), as well as a PhD from the University of Maryland (College Park). Before joining Boston University in 2012, he was a researcher at Brown University and Co-Director of its Development Studies programs. He has published in peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Common Market Studies, Governance, Review of International Political Economy, International Migration, and East European Politics and Society on topics including international economic institutions, international financial crises, development economic policies in Brazil, Spain, and Romania, democratization in Central and Southern Europe, and the economic aspects of transnational migration. His book Ruling Ideas: How Neoliberalism Goes Local was scheduled for publication by Oxford University Press in June 2016. In 2014, he published an award-winning book on Romania’s economic history with Tact Publishing House (Dependency and Development: The Political Economy of Romanian Capitalism).