Associate Professor Kim Moloney’s research engages three inter-related areas: transnational administration, international organizations, and comparative administration. She is co-editor of the Australian Journal of Public Administration and author of Who Matters at the World Bank (Oxford University Press, 2022). This Fellowship is focused on drafting the three history-focused chapters of her next book on the international administrative tribunals of international organizations.

She has already accessed several hundred documents via the Archives of the League of Nations, United Nations, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and International Labour Organization. The three history chapters will be the foundation for two future chapters on comparative rules and statutory analysis along with three future chapters on comparative analysis (stratified random sample) of the 15,000+ Tribunal cases since 1928. She is a U.S. citizen (and Australian permanent resident) working for the College of Public Policy at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar. 

Kim’s research sits at the intersection of public administration and global governance. She explores how international organisations and transnational administrative systems shape good governance, and separately, how small states and island nations navigate unique policy and administrative challenges.

During her Fellowship, Kim investigates the legal and institutional dimensions of international administrative tribunals, highlighting their relevance for Australian public sector actors engaged in global governance. Her work bridges domestic and international perspectives on accountability and personnel management, raising important questions about the legal precarities faced by international public service personnel.

Read more about her research in our newly released Launch Issues Paper.

Reach out to her at k.moloney@anzsog.edu.au.