Dr Fernando Rugitsky

Fernando Rugitsky is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at SOAS University of London. 

His current research interests lie in political economy and development, focusing on the Latin American economies and examining the impacts of the climate transition.

His work has been published in peer-reviewed journals like the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Development and Change, the Review of Radical Political Economics, and the Review of Political Economy. He also published chapters in many books, some of them edited by the United Nations' Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and edited three books in Portuguese.

Fernando has taken part in research projects funded by, among other, the ILO, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, and the Brazilian government. He has also shared the results of his research with a broader audience, publishing articles at Phenomenal World, Sidecar (New Left Review), Jacobin, Le Monde Diplomatique (Argentina), and Folha de Sao Paulo.

Before joining SOAS, Fernando was a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer at the Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil) between 2015 and 2021, spent 2020 as a Visiting Scholar at the Centre of Latin American Studies of the University of Cambridge, and was a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England between 2021 and 2025. His current research activities involve engagement with colleagues in Latin American, African and Asian institutions, in the context of his participation in the Global South Political Economy network (a group within the Emerging Political Economies network), alongside colleagues from the Center of Critical Imagination at the Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning.

At SOAS, he is currently teaching Macroeconomic Analysis and Macroeconomics.

• Political Economy of Development
• Extractivism and Dependency in Latin America
• Development and Climate Change
• Structural Dynamics and Income Distribution
• Kaleckian Macroeconomics