Taylor

St John
St Antonys College
62 Woodstock Road
Oxford OX2 6JF
www.taylor-stjohn.com
taylor.stjohn@bsg.ox.ac.uk

Present Appointment

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Global Economic Governance
Institution: Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
Tenable: October 2014April 2016


Education

Doctor of Philosophy in International Development
Class: Passed with no corrections
Institution: St Antonys College, University of Oxford
Date of Award: submitted October 2014, viva voce March 2015

Dissertation: The Power of Modest Multilateralism: the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
(ICSID), 19641980
Supervisors: Professor EVK Fitzgerald (economics, international development)
Professor Ngaire Woods (international relations, government)

Master of Science in Global Governance and Diplomacy
Class: with distinction

Institution: St Antonys College, University of Oxford
Date of Award: August 2008

Bachelor of Arts in International Political Economy
Class: summa cum laude (class rank: 1)

Institution: College of Idaho
Date of Award: June 2007

Publications

In Progress (abstracts or full texts available at www.taylor-stjohn.com)

The Challenges of Researching the Political History of Legal Conventions
Forthcoming as a chapter in International Investment Law and History, a volume edited by Stephan
Schill, Christian Tams, and Rainer Hofmann

Amid Failure: Judicialization in the Wake of Stalled Multilateral Negotiations
Presented at the Investment Law and Policy Group, London, November 2014
Accepted for presentation at the European Society of International Law (ESIL) Conference, 2015
Submitted as part of a panel to the International Studies Association (ISA) Conference, 2016

Who Needs Rules? Explaining Participation in the International Investment Regime (with Noel Johnston)
Accepted for presentation at the European Political Science Association (EPSA) Conference, 2015
Accepted for presentation at the American Political Science Association (APSA) Conference, 2015

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Curriculum Vitae

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Entrepreneurial Agents and the Forgotten Origins of Investment Treaty Arbitration

Presented at The Political Economy of International Investment Agreements Conference at Deutsches
Institut fr Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Bonn, December 2014
Published as Oxford Global Economic Governance (GEG) Working Paper 94

Completed

State Interpretations of Investment Treaties: Feasible Strategies for Developing Countries (with Geoffrey Gertz).
GEG Policy Brief. June 2015.
Bringing the State Back In: Reconciling Public and Private Interests in the International Investment Regime (with
Geoffrey Gertz). GEG Policy Brief. January 2015.

Ukraine Versus the Vultures (with Ngaire Woods). Project Syndicate. 17 March 2014. Translated into 8 languages,
reprinted in Le Monde (as Kiev menac par ses cranciers, 22 March 2014) and elsewhere.


New Thinking on Spillovers: How are Emerging and Developing Countries Affected by Monetary and Regulatory
Spillovers from Advanced Economies? (with Geoffrey Gertz and Maxwell Watson). GEG Policy Brief. May 2014.

How Can Africa Flourish with Ethnic Diversity? (edited with Hiroyuki Hino and John Lonsdale). Kobe: Kobe University
Press. 2013.

Summary of Proceedings: Multilateral Liberalization through Bilateral Investment Treaties? GEG Memos from a
Workshop on Global Governance. June 2012.

All Politics is Local (book review). Oxonian Review, Issue 9.1. 27 April 2009.

Review, Response, and Rejoinder: McKinsey and Oxfam Reports on Social Responsibility and Shareholder Activism
(with Daniel Hemel). St Antonys International Review 5 (1): 122132. April 2009.


Awards

Oxford-Marshall Scholarship (full doctoral funding)
2009-2012
Marshall Scholarship (full masters funding)
2007-2009
Presidential Scholarship (full undergraduate funding)
2004-2007

Research Experience

Senior Researcher (previously Research Associate)
2011-cont
Global Economic Governance Programme, Oxford
Lead the Programmes work on investment treaties.
Commission working papers, policy briefs, opinion pieces; review and edit all work published on
investment; and set the investment teams research agenda.
Convened three high-level workshops related to investment treaties. In April 2015, I led a workshop on
interpretation of investment treaties with negotiators from 14 countries in Santiago, Chile. This built on
a 2014 workshop titled Reshaping the International Investment Regime: Lessons From Latin America?
attended by expert academics, negotiators and arbitrators in Oxford. In June 2012, I convened a
workshop in Oxford titled Multilateral Liberalization through Bilateral Investment Treaties?

Research Assistant
2012-2014
Professor Duncan Snidal, Nuffield College, and Dr Karolina Milewicz, University College, Oxford

Led the empirical research for a project on informal international organizations, with a particular focus
on global economic governance actors, like the G20 and Basel Committee.

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2012-2013
Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Research Agency, Tokyo

Wrote the first draft of How Can Africa Flourish with Ethnic Diversity? a book synthesizing the work of
top scholars (Dan Posner, Ernest Ayreetey, Benno Ndulu).
Research Assistant
2008-2009
Professor Ngaire Woods, University College, Oxford
Collected, prepared, and analyzed new data for Professor Woods Report to the European Parliament on
Responses to the Financial Crisis.


Teaching and Related Experience

Thesis Supervisor, Masters Thesis on South African Investment Treaties
2013-2014
Tutor, Undergraduate Course on American Legislative Politics
2012-2013
Visiting Professor, Undergraduate Course on the Political Economy of Foreign Aid
2011-2012
Lecture Series Coordinator, Department of International Development
2008-2010
Book Editor and Contributor, St Antonys International Review
2008-2009
Visiting Researcher, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
2005-2006

References

Professor Ngaire Woods
Dean of Blavatnik School of Government
University College
High Street
Oxford OX1 4BH
ngaire.woods@univ.ox.ac.uk
Professor EVK FitzGerald
Professor of International Development Finance
St Antonys College
62 Woodstock Road
Oxford OX2 6JF
edmund.fitzgerald@qeh.ox.ac.uk
Dr Lauge Skovgaard Poulsen
Lecturer in International Political Economy
University College London
31 Tavistock Square
London WC1H 9QU
l.poulsen@ucl.ac.uk