Alan S Alexandroff is the Director of Online Research and the Co-director of the G20 Research Group at the Munk School of Global Affairs, the University of Toronto. Dr. Alexandroff leads the Global Institutional Reform (GIR) Workshop designed to evaluate the adequacy of institutional reform proposals for the international system. Following the editing of, Can the World be Governed? Possibilities for Effective Multilateralism (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008), a second volume co-edited with Andrew F. Cooper has been published recently, Rising States; Rising Institutions: Challenges for Global Governance (Brookings Institution Press, 2010)

Dr. Alexandroff focuses his research work on the contemporary global governance architecture and the influence and role of the rising states, particularly China. Dr. Alexandroff received his B.A., cum laude with distinction in all subjects from Cornell University, an M.A. and Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University, an M.A. in International History from the London School of Political Science and Economics and an L.L.B. from the McGill University Law School.