Julia Gray

Julia Gray serves as a Professor and Munk-Trinity Chair of International Relations and Global Economics here at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Professor Gray comes on leave from the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in international relations with a focus on international political economy. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, an MSc with distinction in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics, and a BA summa cum laude from Amherst College.

Professor Gray's research examines the politics of economic cooperation and global governance over time. Current, award-winning projects focus on the life cycles of international cooperation, including the conditions under which institutions grow, adapt, stagnate, or decline. Her work also examines the historical development of international organizations and the role of individuals and bureaucracies in sustaining international economic cooperation.  She is the editor of a forthcoming volume on the life cycles of international organizations and guest editor of a recent special issue in the Review of International Organizations on institutional vitality and organizational change. Her research has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, Economics and Politics, and the Journal of Conflict Resolution. Her book The Company States Keep: International Economic Organizations and Investor Perceptions in Emerging Markets received the 2014 Lepgold Prize for the best book published in international relations. She has held fellowships at Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law; the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute; and Princeton University's Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance. Prior to her academic career, she spent five years working in journalism and the nonprofit sector in the Czech Republic and Hungary.