Jeffrey Wilson

Biography

Jeffrey Wilson is a Fellow of the Asia Research Centre and Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy. His research interests include international political economy, economic regionalism in the Asia-Pacific, and international resource politics. He was awarded the University of Sydney Medal in 2006, and in 2012 was awarded the inaugural Boyer Prize by the Australian Institute of International Affairs for his work on the politics of Sino-Australia mining investment. He has published widely on the political economy of Asia in leading international journals, including New Political Economy, The Pacific Review, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Third World Quarterly, Resources Policy, Asian Security, and International Relations of the Asia-Pacific. He is the author of Governing Global Production: Resource Networks in the Asia-Pacific Steel Industry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and International Resource Politics in the Asia-Pacific: The Political Economy of Conflict and Cooperation (Edward Elgar, 2017). He is also currently the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Contemporary Politics.

Research Interest

International political economy, Asia-Pacific economic regionalism, international resource politics, Australia’s foreign relations with Asia