Geoffrey Underhill

Geoffrey Underhill was born in Vancouver, Canada (1959), and completed his BA (Hons) in Political Studies at Queen’s University at Kingston, graduating in 1980 with First Class honours.

His main interests in political science were comparative/international political economy and international relations. In the course of his undergraduate studies he also completed the Certificat d’Etudes Politiques at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, specialising in the French political system and international relations/political economy. He received his PhD in 1987 at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford. Underhill then taught at the University of Stirling (Scotland), and for three years at McMaster University in Canada, before moving to the University of Warwick in the UK in 1991.

He took up the Chair of International Governance at the Universiteit van Amsterdam in October 1998. He was Director of Studies and appointed to the Supervisory Board of the Amsterdam School for International Relations (1999-2004) and was a member of the Management Board of the ASSR from 2001-2003. From May 2003 until September 2006 he was Director of the Amsterdams Instituut voor Maatschappijwetenschap (AIM), equivalent of Dean of Studies for the social sciences. The Institute is responsible for a range of discipline-based BA & MSc degree programmes in Anthropology, Political Science, and Sociology as well as interdisciplinary Dutch and English-language degree programmes (BA and MSc) in the social sciences with the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences.

Since the late 1980s, Underhill's research has concerned the political economy of international monetary relations and financial markets, in particular global-level co-operation for the governance of cross-border financial integration processes. He has published over 10 books, has held a wide range of research council and EU grants, and participates in a wide variety of policy forums addressing the reform of the global 'financial architecture'."

 

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