John Cavanagh 
Biography
Director of Institute for Policy Studies from United States
John Cavanagh is the Director of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC (since 1998). Formerly an economist with UNCTAD and the WHO, he co-founded the International Forum on Globalization (IFG) in 1995. He also sits on the executive committees of the US-based Alliance for Responsible Trade and the Citizens’ Trade Campaign and works closely with the Progressive Caucus of the US Congress. He is the co-author of numerous books and articles on globalization, corporate accountability and international labour rights.
His latest book is “Development Redefined: How the Market Met Its Match (International Studies Intensives) ” written together with Robin Broad.
Videos
John Cavanagh
What are the risks of deregulation?
John Cavanagh expresses his concerns about the lack of constraints on the United States or on the power of global corporations. Historically, corporations were more accountable…
Recorded: 13 April 2005
John Cavanagh
Are corporations too powerful?
John Cavanagh gives examples of ways in which global corporations have set the world’s financial institutions – the IMF, World Bank and WTO (formerly GATT). Oil companies…
Recorded: 13 April 2005
John Cavanagh
What impacts has globalization had?
John Cavanagh looks at the history of economic globalization. He believes we are emerging from a “dark age” of the 1980s and 1990s, which saw the rise of what George…
Recorded: 13 April 2005
John Cavanagh
Are there any alternatives to economic globalization?
John Cavanagh examines the arguments that came from corporate globalizers back in 1980s. Their message is no longer convincing. The rules by which corporations and financial institutions…
Recorded: 13 April 2005
John Cavanagh
What does it mean to be a consumer?
John Cavanagh highlights the power that individuals possess as consumers, workers, investors and citizens by the choices that they make. He points to the success of the fair trade…
Recorded: 13 April 2005
John Cavanagh
What will the future of globalization look like?
John Cavanagh sees hope in the development of a more benign form of globalization. He suggests that there are two main ways in which positive change continues to manifest itself.…
Recorded: 13 April 2005
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