Background
Walter Mattli was born in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Walter Mattli was born in Lucerne, Switzerland.
He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Geneva (Switzerland) and his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago (United States of America).
In 1995, Walter Mattli was awarded the Helen Dwight Reid Award of the American Political Science Association, in 2003 the Justice of the Peace Morgan International Prize in Finance Policy and Economics of the American Academy in Berlin, and in 2006 a two-year British Academy Research Fellowship. In 2012, he was appointed co-editor of the journal Regulation and Governance. He serves also as editor (with Liesbeth Hooghe and Gary Marks) of a new book series with Oxford University Press titled Transformations in Governance.
Before beginning his graduate studies, he worked in international banking.
He is the winner (with Alex Stone Sweet of Yale Law School) of the open competition for the editorship of the 50th anniversary special issues of the Journal of Common Market Studies published in March 2012. Professor Mattli"s publications include The Logic of Regional Integration: Europe and Beyond (Cambridge University Press, 1999), The Politics of Global Regulation (Princeton University Press, 2009, with Ngaire Woods, eds), The New Global Rulers: the Privatization of Regulation in the World Economy (Princeton University Press, March 2011, with Tim Buthe), winner of the 2012 Best Book Award of the International Studies Association Industry Standard Architecture, Institutional Choice and Global Commerce (Cambridge University Press, 2013, with Joseph Jupille and Duncan Snidal), International Arbitration and Global Governance: Contending Theories and Evidence (Oxford University Press, 2014, with Thomas Dietz, eds), as well as articles on European legal integration, European Union enlargement, comparative regional integration, international commercial dispute resolution, transatlantic regulatory cooperation, and globalization and international governance.
Professor Mattli is the Senior member of the Oxford international relations society. From 1995 until 2004 he taught at Columbia University in New York where he was Associate Professor of International Political Economy and a member of the Institute of War and Peace Studies.