Dr Ashby Monk
- Visiting Research Associate
- Member of the Transformations: Economy, Society and Place research cluster
- Email: ashby.monk@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Academic Profile
Ashby H. B. Monk is a Visiting Research Associate at the School of Geography and the Environment and Co-Director of the Oxford SWF Project. His research is on the design and governance of financial institutions, with particular focus on pension funds and sovereign wealth funds (SWFs). Currently, he is working on a multi-year research project on the rise of SWFs funded by the Leverhulme Trust and the Rotman International Centre for Pension Management.
Dr Monk has published numerous academic papers related to the topics above (see below). In addition, he was the editor of Managing Financial Risk: from Local to Global (Oxford University Press) and is the co-author of the forthcoming book Sovereign Wealth Funds (Princeton University Press). He has also written over 60 briefs and articles for a wide range of publications (e.g. Foreign Policy, Forbes, the IHT, Investment News, etc.) and has written nearly 500 blog posts for the Oxford SWF Project. His work has also been referenced in The Economist, the Financial Times, Reuters, Forbes, Foreign Policy, and Pensions & Investments, among others.
Dr Monk was awarded his doctorate in Economic Geography at the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford as a member of Christ Church. He also holds a Master's degree in International Economics from Université de Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne and a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Princeton University.
Selected Publications
- Monk, A.H.B. (forthcoming) Defending sovereignty in the era of global capitalism: Sovereign Wealth Funds and the power of finance. Environment and Planning, A.
- Clark, G.L. and Monk, A.H.B. (2011) Pension reserve funds: aligning form and function. Rotman International Journal of Pension Management, 4(2): 18-25.
- Clark, G.L. and Monk, A.H.B. (2011) The political economy of US-China trade and investment: the role of the China Investment Corporation. Competition and Change, 15(2): 97-115.
- Clark, G.L., Monk, A., Dixon, A., Pauly, L.W., Faulconbridge, J., Yeung, J.W. and Behrendt, S. (2010) Symposium: sovereign fund capitalism. Environment and Planning, A, 42: 2271-2291.
- Clark, G.L. and Monk, A. (2010) Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC): insurer of last resort and bulwark of nation-state legitimacy. The Pacific Review, 23(4): 429-451.
- Clark, G.L. and Monk, A.H.B. (2010) The Norwegian government pension fund: ethics over efficiency. Rotman International Journal of Pension Management, 3(1): 14-19.
- Clark, G.L. and Monk, A.H.B. (2010)The legitimacy and governance of Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund: The ethics of global investment. Environment and Planning, A, 42(7): 1723-1738.
- Monk, A.H.B. (2010) Pension buyouts: what can the USA learn from the UK experience? International Journal of Financial Services Management, 4(2): 127-150.
- Monk, A.H.B. (2009) Recasting the Sovereign Wealth Fund debate: trust, legitimacy, and governance. New Political Economy, 14(4): 451-468.
- Dixon, A.D. and Monk, A.H.B. (2009) The power of finance: accounting harmonization's effect on pension provision. Journal of Economic Geography.
- Monk, A.H.B. (2009) The geography of pension liabilities and fund governance in the United States. Environment and Planning, A, 41: 859-878.
- Monk, A.H.B. (2009) The financial thesis: reconceptualizing globalisation's effect on firms and institutions. Competition & Change, 13(1): 51-74.
- Monk, A.H.B. (2009) The emerging market for intellectual property: drivers, restrainers, and implications. Journal of Economic Geography, 9(4): 469-491.
- Monk, A.H.B. (2008) The interplay between social welfare and competitiveness: the case of Canadian Medicare. Geoforum, 38: 2009-–2018.
- Monk, A.H.B. (2008) The knot of contracts: the corporate geography of legacy costs. Economic Geography, 84(2): 211-236.
- Clark, G.L. and Monk, A.H.B. (2008) Conceptualizing the defined benefit pension promise: implications from a survey of expert opinion. Benefits Quarterly, First Quarter: 7-31.
- Monk, A.H.B. and Monk, C.S. (2007) Economic geography: the rising star of the social sciences. Oxonomics, 1(2): 16-20.
- Clark, G.L. and A.H.B. Monk (2007) The 'crisis' in defined benefit corporate pension liabilities Part II: Current solutions and future prospects. Pensions: An International Journal, 12(2): 68-81.
- Clark, G.L. and A.H.B. Monk (2007) The 'crisis' in defined benefit corporate pension liabilities. Part I: Scope of the problem. Pensions: An International Journal, 12(1): 43-54.