Timothy M. Shaw is a Faculty Fellow at the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance; McCormack Graduate School UMass Boston.

Dr. Shaw was educated on three continents, and holds degrees from Sussex, Makerere, and Princeton, augmented by an honorary PhD from St Andrews in Scotland (2014). He taught at Dalhousie for three decades (1971-2000), and directed the Pearson Institute, the International Development Studies department, and the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies.

He has held visiting professorships in Denmark, Japan, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, UK, USA, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. He has directed the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London, the Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago. He is also adjunct research professors at Carlton University, Universite D’ Adowar. Shaw is now an external examinor for University of Ghana.

Timothy Shaw also continues to edit the International Political Economy (IPE) series for Palgrave-Macmillan and Springer, and the IPE of New Regionalisms series for Routledge. He has published in a range or refereed journals. And he has held grants from a wide range of sources, from Canada (CIDA, Department of Foreign Affairs, SSHRC, IDRC, etc.), the European Union (GARNET, NETRIS), the North-South Institute, Qatar National Research Fund, and the UN Economic Commission for Africa, among others.

His research interest includes International Political Economy, Human Development and Human Security, African and Caribbean Regions.