Before entering the academy, Louis W. Pauly held management positions in the Royal Bank of Canada and served on the staff of the International Monetary Fund. He is currently the J. Stefan Distinguished Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Political Science and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. With Emanuel Adler, from 2007 to 2012 he edited International Organization, the top-ranked journal in the fields of international relations and international political economy. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and in 2015 received the Distinguished Scholar Award in International Political Economy from the International Studies Association. He has published many articles in the field’s leading journals, and his books and edited volumes include Global Ordering: Institutions and Autonomy in a Changing World (UBC Press); Complex Sovereignty: Reconstituting Political Authority in the Twenty-First Century (University of Toronto Press); and Democracy beyond the State? The European Dilemma and the Emerging Global Order (University of Toronto Press).