Peter Knaack

peter.knaack@gmail.com

Peter Knaack is a senior research associate at the Global Economic Governance Programme, School of Government, University of Oxford. His research focuses on global financial governance. He has written and published on transatlantic coordination failure in derivatives regulation, the political economy of global banking regulation, China's role in global financial governance, and the growing tension between nation-states and transgovernmental networks over the authority to govern cross-border economic activity.

Peter graduated from the University of Southern California with degrees in Economics and International Relations. His doctoral research examined the gap between the financial regulatory reform commitments made by G20 leaders in the wake of the global financial crisis and the reality of their implementation 8 years later. Peter's regional focus lies in the political economy of China's rise, and Latin American regional integration. His field research in 10 countries on 4 continents has been supported by the China Scholarship Council, the USC US-China Institute, the ESRC, and the John Fell Fund of Oxford University Press, among others.