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Annelise Riles
Annelise Riles is a professor of international law at Northwestern University where she also serves as Associate Provost for Global Affairs and Special Advisor to the President on Global Sustainability. She is the founder of Meridian 180, a multilingual forum for transformative leadership. Its global membership of 1500+ thought leaders in academia, government, and business work together to generate solutions to the most important problems of our time, including global financial governance, environmental governance, and data governance. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; she has been knighted by the French government (Chevalier in the Order of the Palms) for her contributions to global affairs; she has received the Medal of Honor of the American Society of International Law for *The Network Inside Out*, about the UN Fourth World Conference on Women; and she has received the Maier Prize, a lifetime achievement award from the German government and the Humboldt foundation. The author of over 100 academic publications on global affairs, she also writes for venues such as the New York Times and the Financial Times. She has taught at the London School of Economics, University of Tokyo, Yale University and Cornell University, among others.
Annelise is also an anthropologist, specializing in culture change, innovation, and how people make meaning and collaborate across their differences. She holds a PhD is Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. Her anthropological research has taken me to many parts of the world, from the United States, to Europe, to the Asia-Pacific region.
