Catherine (Kate) Weaver received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003. From 2001-2002, she was a Brookings Research Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and from 2002-2008 an assistant professor of political science at the University of Kansas. Dr. Weaver's research focuses on the culture, behavior and reform of international financial institutions, foremost the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, as well as issues of transparency and accountability in international development aid. She is the author of Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform (Princeton University Press, 2008) and co-author (with Michael Lipson and Michael Mosser) of Theory and Practice of International Organizations (forthcoming Rowman & Littlefield Press. She is also co-editor (with Nicola Phillips) of International Political Economy: Debating the Past, Present and Future (Routledge Press, 2010 and (with Manuella Moschella) The Handbook of Global Economic Governance (forthcoming, Routledge Press). In addition to several book chapters, she has also published articles in Global Governance, Journal of International Relations and Development, Brown Journal of World Affairs, Review of International Political Economy, New Political Economy, and Review of International Organizations.
Dr. Weaver is currently co-editor Review of International Political Economy, and serves on the editorial advisory boards for the journal Poverty and Public Policy, the New Millennium Books Series of Rowman & Littlefield Press, and the Routledge/University of Warwick Studies in Globalisation book series. She is also the co-founder of the Alliance on Governance Research & Analysis (AGORA).
In addition, Dr. Weaver is Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor for the Masters in Global Policy Studies at the LBJ School. She is a core researcher in the Strauss Center’s program on Climate Change and African Political Stability (CCAPS), a multiyear research project funded by the U.S. Department of Defense Minerva Initiative. She leads the CCAPS project on tracking and geomapping climate aid flows to Africa.
Dr. Weaver’s book, Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform, received the Chadwick Alger Prize for Best Book on International Organizations and Multilateralism from International Studies Association in February 2009 and the Harold Lasswell book prize from the Society of Policy Scientists in September 2009.
