Andrew F. Cooper is University Research Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo and Professor, Balsillie School of International Affairs. From 2003 to 2010 he was Associate Director and Distinguished Fellow, The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). He has been a visiting professor, at the International Relations and Governance Studies Department, Shiv Nadar University, India; Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Duisburg, Germany; Department of Political Science, Stellenbosch University, South Africa; Department of International Relations, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; and the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.

Born in Kelvington, Saskatchewan, he obtained a BA and MA in Political Science, University of Waterloo, and D.Phil., Political Studies, University of Oxford. He is currently a Associate Research Fellow – UNU CRIS  Institute on Comparative Regional Integration) Bruges, Belgium. On the basis of the 2023 Research.com study of Canadian political scientists broadly defined; he ranks 6^th in the number of publications, and 21^st on the  overall list.

Cooper has written 9 single authored books including: The Concertation Impulse in World Politics Contestation over Fundamental Institutions and the Constrictions of Institutionalist International Relations (Oxford  University Press, 2024); The BRICS – A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2016); Diplomatic Afterlives (Polity, 2014); Internet Gambling Offshore: Caribbean Struggles over Casino Capitalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011);  Celebrity Diplomacy (Paradigm Publishing, 2007); and Canadian Foreign Policy: Old Habits, New Directions (Prentice Hall, 1998). He has co-authored 3 additional books, The Group of Twenty (G20) (Routledge, 2012), Intervention without Intervening? OAS and Democracy in the Americas (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) and Relocating Middle Powers: Australia and Canada in a Changing World Order (University of British Columbia Press/University of Melbourne Press, 1993); as well as editing or co-editing 15 collections including The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy (OUP, 2013): the “Spotlight” book, American Political Science Association, July 2013, and Rising States, Rising Institutions: Challenges for Global Governance: (Brookings Institution Press, 2010).

He was selected to be a commissioner on the 2007 Warwick Commission on the future of the multilateral trade system. He served as a member of the editorial boards of the ISA journals, Foreign Policy Analysis and International Studies Perspectives. He acted as the co-convenor of the first module on “Contemporary Diplomacy” under the auspices of the Diplomatic Academy of the Caribbean. He has presented over 20 keynote presentations around the world, including high profile addresses to the 2017 conference on the “Future Foreign Service” convened by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and the 2015 Reunion of Mexico’s Ambassadors and Consul Generals.

He had an extended role organizing the “Inside Government” training module for the incoming cohort of Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade foreign service officers (1999-2006). His presentations to parliamentary committees are extensive: including a preliminary evaluation of the impact of 9/11 on Canadian foreign policy before the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade, House of Commons, Ottawa, 27 November 2001. His co-authored work on the Inter-American Democracy Charter was extensively referred to by the 2010 Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate.

He has published 78 articles in a wide range of top journals including International Organization, International Affairs, World Development, International Studies Review, and Global Policy Journal, with over 250 total publications. His Scopus author profile is 124 documents and h-index 24. In a  2009 TRIPS (Teaching, Research & International Policy) Survey of International Relations Faculty in Ten Countries (William and Mary College) he Ranked 4^th (p.57, q.48) in recognition of research and work having influence on foreign policy in Canada over the past 20 years.