Walter Mattli is the Fellow in Politics at St. John's College and Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University.
Walter Mattli was born in Lucerne, Switzerland. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Geneva (Switzerland) and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (USA). From 1995 until 2004 he taught at Columbia University in New York where he was Associate Professor of International Political Economy and a member of the Institute of War and Peace Studies.
In 1995, he was awarded the Helen Dwight Reid Award of the American Political Science Association, in 2003 the JP Morgan International Prize in Finance Policy and Economics of the American Academy in Berlin, and in 2006 a two-year British Academy Research Fellowship. Before beginning his graduate studies, he worked in international banking.
Professor Mattli is the Senior member of the Oxford international relations society and the head of Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St John's College. His publications include The Logic of Regional Integration: Europe and Beyond (Cambridge University Press, 1999), The Politics of Global Regulation (Princeton University Press, 2009, with Ngaire Woods, eds), as well as articles on European legal integration, EU enlargement, comparative regional integration, international commercial dispute resolution, transatlantic regulatory cooperation, and globalization and international governance.
He is presently completing two book-projects; one is entitled Global Private Governance: The Politics of Rule-Making for Product and Financial Markets (Princeton University Press, 2010), with Tim Buthe; the other Institutional Choice in International Commerce.