Jennifer Tobin is Associate Professor of Public Policy at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. She earned her Ph.D. at Yale University, and has worked at the Brookings Institution, the World Bank, Oxford University, and microfinance institutions in Uganda, Haiti, and Mexico. Her main research interests are in the political economy of development, specifically focusing on international investment, trade, development assistance aid and investor state dispute resolution. She is currently working on projects focused on property rights enforcement for small investors, investor state dispute settlement (ISDS), free trade agreements in emerging market economies, financial crises and the emergence of pro-poor economic policies in developing countries. More details are available on her website: http://faculty.georgetown.edu/jlt58/