Professor Christine Oughton

Christine Oughton is Professor of Management Economics and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

She received her PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge. Before joining SOAS she was Professor of Economics and Management at the University of Bolzano and Professor of Management at Birkbeck. Her research focuses on innovation, environmental management & economics, corporate governance, financial inclusion and growth.

She was co-investigator on the ESRC Research Seminar Series, Complexity Economics for Sustainability that brought together, academics, practitioners and policy makers on environmental issues, and is co-investigator on a £2m ESRC-DFID project - Financial Inclusion and Growth, focusing on innovation in low-income countries.

Christine has published widely on innovation, environmental management & economics, governance and growth. In 2017 she was Research Fellow of the South African Reserve Bank. Between 2012-16 she was Head of the School of Finance and Management and served on the SOAS Board of Trustees.

• Bustamante, J, Oughton, C, Pesque-Cela, V and Tobin, T (2023) Resolving the Patents Paradox in the Era of Covid19 and Climate Change: Towards a Patents Taxonomy, Research Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2023.104850
• Oughton, C and Tobin, D (2023) Joan Robinson: Early Endogenous Growth Theorist, Cambridge Journal of Economics. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bead032
• Michie, J and Oughton, C (2022) Measuring corporate diversity in financial services: a diversity index, International Review of Applied Economics, pp. 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1080/02692171.2022.2090522
• Kanga, D, Oughton, C, Harris, L and Murinde, V (2022) ‘The Diffusion of Fintech, Financial Inclusion and GDP Per Capita’, European Journal of Finance. https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2021.1945646
• Oughton, C (2021) The Case for a New International Accord on Diffusing Innovations and Building Technological Capacity. Ghana: ACET African Centre for Economic Transformation. Essays on Innovation and Recovery for Africa: A Special Series from ACET and DEGRP in partnership with ODI.
• Foxon, T J, Köhler, J, Michie, J and Oughton, C (2013) Towards a New Complexity Economics for Sustainability, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 187-208.