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Patrick Bond is a political economist. He has pursued longstanding research interests and NGO work in urban communities and with global justice movements in several countries. He is currently professor at University of KwaZulu-Natal School of Development Studies. From 1997-2004, he lectured at the University of the Witwatersrand’s Graduate School of Public and Development Management in Johannesburg, where he founded the doctoral programme and co-directed the Municipal Services Project http://www.queensu.ca/msp. He was a visiting fellow at York University’s Department of Political Science in Toronto during 2003-04 and in 2001, a visiting professor at Yokohama National University Department of Economics (1999), and assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University (1994-95).

In service to the new South African government, Patrick authored/edited more than a dozen policy papers from 1994-2002, including the Reconstruction and Development Programme and the RDP White Paper. He held other positions at Johannesburg NGOs (National Institute for Economic Policy, 1996-97 and Planact, 1990-94); at the University of Zimbabwe’s Department of Political and Administrative Studies (1989-90); and in Washington, DC at the Institute for Policy Studies, Pacifica Radio, MarketPlace Radio, and several international trade unions (late 1980s).

Patrick’s recent books are: Elite Transition: From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa (2nd edn forthcoming from Pluto Press and University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2005); Fanon’s Warning: A Civil Society Reader on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Africa World Press and AIDC, 2004, 2002); Talk Left, Walk Right: South Africa’s Frustrated Global Reforms (University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2004); Against Global Apartheid: South Africa meets the World Bank, IMF and International Finance (University of Cape Town Press and Zed Books, 2003, 2001); Zimbabwe’s Plunge: Exhausted Nationalism, Neoliberalism and the Searth for Social Justice (University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, Merlin Press, Weaver Press and Africa World Press, 2003, 2002, with Masimba Manyanya); Unsustainable South Africa: Environment, Development and Social Protest (University of KwaZulu-Natal Press and Merlin Press, 2002); Cities of Gold, Townships of Coal: South Africa’s New Urban Crisis (Africa World Press, 2000); An RDP Policy Audit (Human Sciences Research Council, 1999, co-edited with Meshack Khosa); and Uneven Zimbabwe: A Study of Finance, Development and Underdevelopment (Africa World Press, 1998).