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Asuncion Lera St. Clair, Philosopher and Sociologist, is Associate Professor at the University of Bergen, and at the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM) University of Oslo. She is vice-president of the International Development Ethics Association (IDEA), board member of the Norwegian Programme for Development, Research and Higher Education (NUFU), and member of the editorial committees for Journal of Global Governance and Journal of Global Ethics, as well as the forthcoming Encyclopaedia on Global Justice from Springer. Her work focuses on ethical issues related to poverty and development, in particular the interface between knowledge, politics, and ethics and the ways in which global normative discourses such as ‘human rights’ and ‘human security’, are used by global institutions. Current research includes two projects based at the University of Oslo, Ethics, Rights and Poverty: From Global Theory to National Practice and Development Ethics and Human Rights as the Basis for Global Poverty Reduction; both research projects are funded by the Norwegian Research Council. Recent publications include “Third Stage Development Ethics,” forthcoming in the Journal of Global Ethics; “The World Bank as a Transnational Expertised Institution,” Journal of Global Governance 12 (1); “Global Poverty: The Co-Production of Knowledge and Politics,” Journal of Global Social Policy 6 (1); and “Global Poverty: Development Ethics Meets Global Justice” Journal Globalizations 3 (2). With Desmond McNeill, St. Clair is working on a monograph forthcoming from Routledge tentatively entitled Global Poverty, Ethics and Human Rights: The Role of Multilateral Organisation.