Patrick Bond, a political economist, is research professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal School of Development Studies in Durban where he directs the Centre for Civil Society (http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs). He is also visiting professor at York University Department of Political Science in Toronto and Gyeongsang National University Institute of Social Sciences in South Korea. He previously taught at the University of the Witwatersrand Graduate School of Public and Development Management, Yokohama National University Department of Economics and the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health.Bond''s other recent books include Talk Left, Walk Right: South Africa's Frustrated Global Reforms (published by Africa World Press and University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2006); Trouble in the Air: Global Warming and the Privatised Atmosphere (edited with Rehana Dada, published by the CCS and the Transnational Institute, 2005); Elite Transition: From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa (UKZN Press, 2005); Fanon's Warning: A Civil Society Reader on the New Partnership for Africa's Development (Africa World Press and CCS, 2005); and Against Global Apartheid: South Africa meets the World Bank, IMF and International Finance (Zed Books and University of Cape Town Press, 2003). He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1961.