Gerry Helleiner is economics professor emeritus and distinguished research fellow  at  the University of Toronto’s Munk Centre. He has written widely on developing countries, and was a faculty member at Yale, Oxford, Sussex and the Universities of Ibadan and Dar es Salaam. He was research director of the developing countries’ caucus at the IMF and World Bank, and board chair of the North-South Institute, the International Food Policy Research Institute and International Lawyers and Economists Against Poverty. He has also advised numerous UN agencies and African governments.