Barbara Stallings

Barbara Stallings is a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Institute for International Economic Policy, Elliott School for International Affairs, The George Washington University, Washington DC and Honorary Professor of International Affairs at the University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.

She is the former William R. Rhodes Research Professor at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University and spent ten years as Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Schwarzman Scholars Program at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Previously she was Director of the Economic Development Division at the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Chile, Professor of Political Economy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at Brown University, and Director of the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown. She is also the former editor-in-chief of the journal, Studies in Comparative International Development.

Stallings holds PhDs in Economics (Cambridge University) and in Political Science (Stanford University). She has published widely on topics related to development and finance with particular emphasis on the political economy of development in East Asia and Latin America. She has authored or edited 17 books and dozens of articles and is currently working on a book on Chinese economic relations with Southeast Asia and Latin America.