Welcome! I am a political economist at the Chair of European and Global Governance of the Hochschule für Politik /TUM School of Governance at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). My research and teaching cover a number of themes related to international political economy and comparative political economy, with a particular focus on global financial governance.
My research interests revolve around finance and development, especially the domestic and external political constraints that governments in developing countries face in governing their financial sectors. The question which drives my research is how much policy space governments in developing countries have in governing their financial sectors in a context of globalisation and financialisation.
Prior to joining the Chair of European and Global Governance, I was a Fellow in International Political Economy at the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and lecturer in International Political Economy at City, University of London. I am also an associate researcher at the German Development Institute.
You can find a copy of my CV here.
News
The book chapter ‘The financialization of investor-state dispute settlement` that I wrote with Z. Williams, is out! It’s published in the fascinating book Capital Claims, edited by Benjamin Braun and Kai Koddenbrock.
Our special issue on ‘The Structural Power of Finance Meets Financialization’ is out in Politics&Society. It contains a fantastic set of contributions, as you can see here. You can read the introduction that I wrote with Sandy Hager, Natalya Naqvi and Leon Wansleben here and the paper that Lena Rethel and I wrote on financialized developmental planning here. Both are open access publications.
My friend and colleague Rebecca Engebretsen and I have published a new paper in Regulation and Governance, Tussle for space: The politics of mock-compliance with global financial standards in developing countries.
27 November 2020 Presented a book chapter with Zoe Williams on the role of financial claims in investor-state dispute settlement authors’ workshop of the book project ‘Capital claims’ of the Politics of Money Network
29 October 2020 Presented reflections on a framework for mainstreaming development finance in central banking at a webinar and book launch of the Central Bank of Nigeria on the theme ‘Development Financing and the global crisis: A new look at an old central bank tool’.
13 May 2020 My friend and colleague
Zoe Williams
and I have published a new paper in the Review of International
Political Economy (RIPE),
Banking on Courts: Financialization and the Rise of Third-Party
Funding in Investment Arbitration.
7 April 2020 Our book 'The Political Economy of Banking Regulation in Developing Countries: Risk and Reputation', edited by Emily Jones, who has been an amazing leader of the wider project, has been published. You can read the book, including my chapter 'Catch22 or the Politics of Navigating Basel Standards in Nigeria's Fragile Banking Sector' for free as the book has been published open access with Oxford University Press.
3-4 December 2019 Organised the workshop 'New Perspectives on the Structural Power of Finance' with Natalya Naqvi at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
1 September 2019 Excited to start a new post as postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Chair of European and Global Governance of the Hochschule für Politik /TUM School of Governance at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).
12 August 2019 I have published a new paper in the Review of International Political Economy (RIPE), Ambiguity in international finance and the spread of financial norms: the localization of financial inclusion in Kenya and Nigeria.
10-12 April 2019 Presented a paper at the INET conference ‘The Past and Future of African Development: Rethinking Economic Transformation in Africa’ in Ibadan: Routes to Mock-Compliance: The Politics of Global Financial Standard Adoption in Angola and Nigeria (with Rebecca Engebretsen)’.
27-30 March 2019 Presented two papers at the International Studies Association Annual Conference in Toronto: ‘Mock Compliance, Policy Space and the Politics of Global Financial Standard Adoption in Angola and Nigeria (with Rebecca Engebretsen)’ and ‘The Financialisation of Investment Arbitration: The Rise of Third-Party Funding (with Zoe Williams)’.
31 January - 1 February 2019 Presented a paper at the workshop ‘The Politics of Economic Policy in Africa’ at the University of Oxford: ‘Mock Compliance, Policy Space and the Politics of Global Financial Standard Adoption in Angola and Nigeria (with Rebecca Engebretsen)’.