His areas of expertise include global governance,
global finance, international economic institutions, public-private
partnerships and global public policy networks as well as EU-US
relations. His numerous publications include Global Public Policy. Governing without Government? (Brookings Institution Press 1998), Critical Choices. The United Nations, Networks, and the Future of Global Governance (with Francis Deng, Thorsten Benner, Jan Martin Witte, IDRC Publishers 2000) and Business UNUsual. Facilitating United Nations Reform Through Partnerships (with Jan Martin Witte, United Nations Publications 2005).
He was a senior scholar with the Brookings
Institution from 1991-1998 and a senior partner and senior economist in
the Corporate Strategy Group of the World Bank in Washington, DC, from
1998-2000. From 1999-2000, while in Washington, he directed the Global
Public Policy Project, which provided strategic guidance on global
governance for the UN Secretary General’s Millennium Report. He
co-founded the Global Public Policy Institute in 2003. From 2000-2011,
he worked in the private sector as managing director of Galaxar, SA in
Geneva.
Wolfgang Reinicke holds degrees from Queen Mary
College of London University (BSc in economics) and Johns Hopkins
University (MA in international relations and economics). He received
his MPhil and PhD in political science from Yale University.