Dr Ken Shadlen is a political scientist in the Department of International Development, at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is also one of the Managing Editors of the Journal of Development Studies. Ken received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to his arrival at LSE in 2002, Ken was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies at Brown University (1997-2000) and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami (2000-2002). Ken works on the comparative and international political economy of development. Currently, his main area of research addresses the global and cross-national politics of intellectual property (IP). In his forthcoming book, Coalitions and Compliance: The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Patents in Latin America, he examines the different ways that countries introduced pharmaceutical patents in the 1990s, and then subsequently revised their new pharmaceutical patent systems in the 2000s. In another project, “TRIPS Implementation and Secondary Pharmaceutical Patenting: An Empirical Analysis” (with Bhaven Sampat), he considers how pharmaceutical patent systems function, analysing the extent to which differences in national pharmaceutical patent systems, particularly different approaches toward applications for secondary patents, affect overall patenting patterns, and seeks to understand the factors that account for differential effectiveness of national policies toward secondary patents. His earlier work on changing patterns of government-business relations included Democratization Without Representation: The Politics of Small Industry in Mexico (Penn State University Press, 2004). He has also written extensively on the political economy of North-South trade agreements.