Andrew F Cooper is Professor at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and the Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo, Canada. From 2003 to 2010 he was the Associate Director and Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). He is the author or co-author of 11 books, including BRICS VSI (OUP, 2016); Diplomatic Afterlives (Polity, 2014); and (with Ramesh Thakur), Group of 20 (Routledge, 2012). In 2019 he received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Diplomacy Section of the International Studies Association.