Walden Bello is a human rights and peace campaigner, academic, environmentalist and journalist who has made a major contribution to the international case against corporate-driven globalization. He is currently the Executive Director of Focus on the Global South, as well as an adjunct professor of sociology at the State University of New York, Binghamton. He was formerly a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, and has previously held positions at the University of the Philippines, UCLA, and the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam.His previous books includeDilemmas of Domination: the Unmaking of the American Empire(Zed 2005), andCapitalism's Last Stand? Deglobalization in the Age of Austerity(Zed 2013).