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FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES -- Tamar Gutner

Tamar Gutner
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.A., Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
B.S., Northwestern University
E-mail: tgutner@american.edu
Phone: (202) 885-1620
http://nw08.american.edu/~tgutner

Professor Gutner's research and teaching interests include international organizations, global environmental politics, and international political economy. Her research focuses on the performance and effectiveness of international organizations, particularly international financial institutions. She is the author of Banking on the Environment: Multilateral Development Banks and Their Performance in Central and Eastern Europe (MIT Press, 2002), and is currently writing International Organizations in World Politics (CQ Press). Her scholarly articles have appeared in journals such as International Organization and Global Environmental Politics. She is also Book Review Editor for a new journal, Review of International Organizations (Springer). Professor Gutner has received a number of fellowships and awards for her scholarship from organizations including the Social Science Research Council, the Academic Council on the United Nations, Harvard-MIT MacArthur Transnational Security Program, and Harvard University's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. Before joining SIS in 1999, she taught at George Washington University, was a doctoral fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a visiting researcher at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Prior to receiving her doctorate she was a financial journalist at AP-Dow Jones in New York and London.

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