Timothy Sinclair was a political scientist who wrote extensively on the politics of global finance. He was an expert on the major American credit rating agencies, Moody's Investors Service, Standard & Poor's, and Fitch.
Sinclair was born in
Taumarunui,
New Zealand in 1963, and was educated at Taumarunui Primary School, and at St. Andrew's College and the
University of Canterbury
The University of Canterbury ( mi, Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha; postnominal abbreviation ''Cantuar.'' or ''Cant.'' for ''Cantuariensis'', the Latin name for Canterbury) is a public research university based in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was ...
in Christchurch. In 1988 and 1989 he worked as a trainee analyst at the New Zealand Treasury in Wellington. Sinclair completed his Ph.D. at York University in Toronto and joined the
University of Warwick in 1995. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, the University of York (UK), and the University of Sheffield.
Timothy authored "To the Brink of Destruction: America's Rating Agencies and Financial Crisis" in 2021
Timothy passed away in 2022
External links
Read an interview with Timothy Sinclair by Theory Talks (May 2008)Homepage at the University of Warwick
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Academics of the University of Warwick
Harvard University staff
Living people
University of Canterbury alumni
People from Taumarunui
Year of birth missing (living people)