Patricia Goff is Executive Director of the Academic Council on the United Nations System. She is Associate Professor of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, both in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. She specializes in International Political Economy and International Relations Theory. Dr. Goff holds an Honours B.A. in French and Political Science from the University of Western Ontario; an M.A. in French Literature from McMaster University; a Diplôme d’études approfondies in Comparative Politics from the University of Paris; and a PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University. She is co-editor with Kevin C. Dunn of Identity and Global Politics (Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2004) and co-editor with Paul Heinbecker of Irrelevant or Indispensable: the United Nations in the 21st Century (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005). She is also author of Limits to Liberalization: Local Culture in a Global Marketplace (Cornell University Press, 2007).

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