Professor Girol Karacaoglu is the Head of the School of Government at Victoria University of Wellington. He arrived at Victoria University of Wellington from the New Zealand Treasury, where he was Chief Economist. Before this, he was Chief Executive of the Cooperative Bank of New Zealand for nine years. His academic fields of specialisation are in public policy, monetary and financial economics, international finance, econometrics, corporate accounting, and finance. Robert H. Wade is professor of global political economy at the London School of Economics. Son of a New Zealand diplomat, educated at Wellington College, Otago University, Victoria University, and Sussex University, he has worked at the Institute of Development Studies (Sussex University), the World Bank, Princeton University, MIT, and Brown University; and has done field work in Pitcairn Island, Italy, India, South Korea, Taiwan and inside the World Bank. His book Governing the market (1990, 2004) won the American Political Science Association's Best Book or Article in Political Economy, 1989-1991. He was awarded the Leontief Prize in Economics in 2008.