A professor of political economy at the London School of Economics, New Zealander Robert Wade is a leading international writer on globalisation,inequality and world financial systems. He is the author of the award-winning work Governing the Market. Professor Wade was awarded, with Jose Antonio Ocampo, the 2008 Leontief Prize by the Global Development and Environment Institute. Professor Robert Wade visited New Zealand in July 2013 and presented several lectures on 'Inequality and the West: Capitalism at a Tipping Point'.