Brigitte Young is professor of International and Comparative Political

Brigitte Young is professor of International and Comparative Political Economy, Institute of
Political Science, University of Muenster, Germany since 1999. She studied International and
Comparative Political Economy at the University of California and at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison. Young taught at the Otto-Suhr Institute, Free University of Berlin from
1997-99. From 1994/95 she was Research Associate at the Centre for German and European
Studies, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C, and Professor of
European Politics at Wesleyan University, Connecticut from 1991-1997. In 2000-2002 she was
appointed as Expert Advisor to the high-level Enquete-Commission of the German Parliament on
“Globalization of the World Economy - Challenges and Answers”. She is a member of the
research project, funded by the EU-6th Framework Program, “Global Governance,
Regionalisation, and Regulation: The Role of the EU” (GARNET). She chairs the sections on
“Gender in Political Economy” (GIPE), and the “Virtual Network” of the Network of Excellence.
Brigitte Young was also a member of the “Warwick Commission on the Future of the
Multilateral Trade Regime after Doha” (2007). From September 2008 to February 2009 Young
was guest professor at Science-Politique/CERI in Paris.
Her research areas include economic globalization; macroeconomics (trade and financial
markets; trade in services (GATS), Global Financial Markets, International political economy,
feminist macroeconomics.
Recent Publications:
1. Die Politische Ökonomie des Dienstleistungsabkommens (GATS). Gender in EU und
China, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2007.
2. Vom staatlichen zum privatisierten Keynesianismus. Der globale makroökonomische
Kontext der Finanzkrise und der Privatverschuldung, in: Zeitschrift für Internationale
Beziehungen, No. 1 : 141-159.
3. Gender and Global Finance (with Helene Schuberth) (forthcoming)
4. No Place like Home? Gender Dimension of Indebtedness and Homeownership (under
review).
5. Gender Knowledge and Knowledge Networks in International Political Economy
(forthcoming in the NOMOS Series – Feminist and Critical Political Economy)

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