Peter Utting

Peter is the Deputy Director of UNRISD where he also coordinates research projects on the global financial crisis, corporate social responsibility, business regulation, and the role of civil society actors in governance. He has been responsible for overseeing the preparation of several of the Institute’s flagship reports, including States of Disarray: The Social Effects of Globalization and Visible Hands: Taking Responsibility for Social Development.

 

Prior to joining UNRISD in 1992 Peter worked for 12 years in Central America on a range of development and environment issues, including the social impact of structural adjustment programmes, deforestation, agrarian reform and food security. Peter has a PhD and other degrees in Sociology and Development Studies. In 2011, he was Visiting Senior Scholar at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Selected publications:

2 publications

One video

A pedagogical tool

3 case studies

7 Analyses/working papers/articles

An article