Teivo Teivainen

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Teivo Teivainen is Professor of World Politics as well as Research Director of the Centre of Excellence in Global Governance Research at the University of Helsinki. He is also Founding Director of the Program on Democracy and Global Transformation at the San Marcos University in Lima, Peru.

He has been Distinguished Visiting Professor of Development Studies at Saint Mary's University, Head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Helsinki, Chair of the International Political Economy Section of the International Studies Association (ISA) and member of the ISA's Governing Council. He has also taught at the Department of Economics of the Catholic University of Peru and been visiting scholar at the Department of Sociology of Binghamton University. He has received the TK Hopkins Award of the American Sociological Association for his book Enter Economism, Exit Politics: Experts, Economic Policy and the Damage to Democracy (London and New York: Zed Books 2002).

He has chaired the Network Institute for Global Democratization, and on behalf of NIGD he took part in founding the International Council of the World Social Forum in which he has participated actively over the years. He has been consultant for various international organizations, trade unions, social movements and governments. In Bolivia, he worked as Deputy Head of Mission of the European Union's Election Observation Mission.

For more information and publications, see http://blogs.helsinki.fi/teivaine/