Associate Professor of Public Affairs
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Catherine (Kate) Weaver is Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and Co-Director of Innovations for Peace and Development at The University of Texas at Ausin. She is a distinguished scholar and founder of the Next Generation Scholars Program at the Strauss Center for International Security & Law. She previously served as LBJ's associate dean for students, associate dean for academics, and graduate advisor for the Ph.D. and MGPS programs.
Dr. Weaver researches transparency in international development aid, reforming global economic governance, and the politics of data. She has developed methods to track and dynamically geomap aid and climate adaptation, and is currently completing two book projects on Policy Hype Cycles: Global Development and the Transparency Revolution and Representation in Global Governance.
Dr. Weaver co-directs (with Drs. Daniel Nielson) Innovations for Peace and Development, an interdisciplinary research lab devoted to alleviating global poverty and peacebuilding. She currently serves on the Board of Advocates for the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty, and previously served on the Board of Directors of Bread for the World. In 2022-23, Dr. Weaver was the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Global Economic Governance, University of Waterloo and a Visiting Research Fellow, Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs, Brown University.
Dr. Weaver is author of the award-winning Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform (Princeton University Press), and numerous articles and book chapters in outlets such as American Political Science Review, International Organization, Review of International Political Economy, Review of International Organizations, Journal of Experimental Political Science, Ethics and International Affairs, Global Governance, Cambridge University Press, and Oxford University Press. She is co-editor of Handbook of Global Economic Governance (with Manuela Moschella, Routledge) and International Political Economy and the Transatlantic Divide (with Nicola Phillips, Routledge).