PROJECT BACKGROUND
The Oxford SWF Project will document, analyze and conceptualize the governance of sovereign wealth funds, focusing on the characteristics of these funds and the principles underpinning their operation. Funding is provided by The Leverhulme Trust. Our research will make contributions to academic literature and inform policy debates. Project findings will be disseminated in a series of scholarly papers and an academic book to be published by Princeton University Press.
RESEARCHER BACKGROUNDS
Dr. Ashby Monk is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. He received his Doctorate in Economic Geography at Oxford and holds Masters and Bachelors Degrees in Economics from the Université de Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne and Princeton University, respectively. His current research is on the design and governance of financial institutions, with particular focus on pension and sovereign wealth funds (supported by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, the Leverhulme Trust, and the U.S. Social Security Administration). He has published numerous academic papers related to the above, and is the editor of a book entitled Managing Financial Risk: from Global to Local (Oxford University Press). He is also the co-author of a forthcoming book entitled Sovereign Wealth Funds (Princeton University Press).
Prof. Gordon L. Clark is the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford. He also holds a Professorial Fellowship at St Peter’s College and is a Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School. His current research is on the governance of financial institutions, focusing upon the competence and consistency of decision-makers and the design of rules and regulations to enhance the investment performance of these institutions (supported by the National Association of Pension Funds, Watson Wyatt and the Leverhulme Trust). Related work centres on individual financial decision-making in defined contribution pensions emphasizing the intersection between cognition and context (supported, in part, by the ESRC, Mercers, and Watson Wyatt). Recent books include Pension Fund Capitalism (OUP 2000), European Pensions & Global Finance (OUP 2003), the co-edited Pension Security in the 21st Century (OUP 2003), the Oxford Handbook of Pensions and Retirement Income (OUP 2006) and Managing Financial Risk (OUP 2009).
