Alan S. Alexandroff

Biography

Alan S Alexandroff is the Director of the Global Summitry Project at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto as well as Senior Editor of Oxford’s Global Summitry: Politics, Economics and Law in International Governance.

Dr. Alexandroff focuses his research work on the contemporary global governance architecture and the influence and role of the rising states, particularly China. Following the editing of, Can the World be Governed? Possibilities for Effective Multilateralism (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008), a second volume on global governance was created co-edited with Andrew F. Cooper, Rising States; Rising Institutions: Challenges for Global Governance (Brookings Institution Press, 2010).  Today as Senior Editor of the Global Summitry Journal with Donald Brean, Dr. Alexandroff is about to launch this peer-reviewed ejournal on all aspects of global summitry. . Dr. Alexandroff has long manned the blog post Rising BRICSAM.

Dr. Alexandroff received his B.A., cum laude with distinction in all subjects from Cornell University, an M.A. and Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University, an M.A. in International History from the London School of Political Science and Economics and an L.L.B. from the McGill University Law School.