Jacqueline Best is an Associate Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. Her work focuses on the social, cultural and political underpinnings of the global economic system, which she studies by examining the efforts of organizations such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to govern the global economy.

She is the author of The Limits of Transparency: Ambiguity and the History of International Finance (Cornell, 2005) and the co-editor, with Matthew Paterson, of Cultural Political Economy (Routledge, 2010). She is currently working on a number of projects, including a book examining recent changes in the forms of power and authority used by the IMF and World Bank in their engagements with low income countries, an analysis of the role of risk management in the recent financial crisis, and a collaborative project, with Alexandra Gheciu, on the re-emergence of the public as practice in global economic, security and environmental governance.

She is an editor of the Routlege Reivew of International Political Economy (RIPE) Book Series and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Queensland and the University of Oxford.