"This is by far one of the best critical contributions from the left in the continuing controversial role which the World Bank and IMF play in developing countries’ economies and societies. Bond comes from a dying tradition of the activist/scholar very much in the mould of Noam Chomsky."-Garth Pere, Executive Director of the Institute for Global Dialogue
Against Global Apartheid: South Africa Meets the World Bank, IMF and International Finance
Patrick Bond
Patrick Bond is a political economist, political ecologist and scholar of social mobilisation. From 2020-21 he was Professor at the Western Cape School of Government and from 2015-2019 was a Distinguished Professor of Political Economy at the University of the Witwatersrand School of Governance. From 2004 through mid-2016, he was Senior Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal School of Built Environment and Development Studies and was also Director of the Centre for Civil Society. He has held visiting posts at a dozen universities and presented lectures at more than 100 others.