Head of Department & Senior Lecturer in the Economy of Japan Dr Satoshi Miyamura Regions: South and East Asia. Countries: India, Japan. Subjects: Development economics, Labour economics, Institutional economics, Labour-management bargaining; Research methods in economics.
Usawa Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Dr Adam Aboobaker Adam Aboobaker researches topics in growth and distribution, with specific reference to structural transformation, inflation, and climate change. He has produced policy reports or briefs for the International Labour Organization and has published in the Review of African Political Economy and Cambridge Journal of Economics (forthcoming.) He is a committee member of the Post-Keynesian Economics Society. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was born in South Africa.
Professor of Development Economics Professor Antonio Andreoni Production Capabilities and Technological Change; Industrial Ecosystems and Global Value Chains; Social Conditions of Innovation, Financialisation and Corporate Governance; Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy; Sustainable Industrialisation and Energy Policy; Digitalisation, Platforms and Competition Policy; Political Economy of Industrial Policy; Comparative Political Economy; Southern and Eastern Africa.
Lecturer in Economics Dr Thereza Balliester Reis Born in Brazil, I’ve lived in Argentina, US, Germany, France, Switzerland and Uganda before ending up in London. I am now waiting to defend my PhD in Economics titled “Financial inclusion, poverty and income inequality in low- and middle-income countries: a mixed-method investigation".
Reader in Economics Dr Hannah Bargawi Feminist Economics; Gender and Employment; Care and Social Reproduction; Aid, Debt and International Financial Institutions; Macroeconomic Policies and Employment; Commodities, Agriculture and Rural Development; Research Methods; Qualitative Methods; Middle East; Palestine; Jordan; Egypt; East Africa; Tanzania; Uganda.
Research Professor of Economics Professor Ha-Joon Chang In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, he has published fifteen authored books (four co-authored) and ten edited books. His main books include The Political Economy of Industrial Policy (Palgrave, 1994), Kicking Away the Ladder (Anthem Press, 2002), Bad Samaritans (Bloomsbury, 2010), 23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism (Bloomsbury, 2011), and Economics: The User’s Guide (Bloomsbury, 2014). His writings have been translated in forty-one languages in forty-four countries. He is the winner of the 2003 Gunnar Myrdal Prize and the 2005 Wassily Leontief Prize. He was ranked number nine in the Prospect magazine’s World Thinkers 2014 poll.
Director of Research Dr Yannis Dafermos Financial macroeconomics; Climate change and finance; Ecological macroeconomics; Shadow banking; Inequality.
Lecturer in Economics Dr Sonali Deraniyagala South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa: technical change and productivity in manufacturing, industrial policy, the impact of trade liberalisation on manufacturing performance
Lecturer in Economics Dr Chandni Dwarkasing Low-carbon transitions in developed countries; Low-carbon policies in the North and its economic implications for the Global South; abstraction and formalization practices in Ecological Economics; Ecological macroeconomics; Computational analyses
Lecturer in Political Economy Dr Tobias Franz Political economy of institutions, elite politics and development, late industrialisation policies, productivity growth, regional economics, local economic development, developmentalist and post-development debates. Regional focus on Latin America with a special emphasis on Colombia.
Lecturer in Economics Dr Suale Karimu Dr Suale Karimu is a Lecturer at the Department of Economics, SOAS University of London. His main research areas are structural transformation in the global south, international trade, economic inequalities, and aggregate economic growth. He also has interest in monetary and macroprudential policies, illicit financial flows, and economic policies of sub-Saharan African countries.
Lecturer in Economics Dr Surbhi Kesar Surbhi Kesar is a Lecturer in Development Economics in the Department of Economics. Her research interests are broadly in the fields of political economy and economic development, particularly focusing on informal economy, processes of structural transformation and capitalist transition in labour surplus less developed economies, issues of economic and social exclusion, identity, labour and work, and decolonised approaches to economics
Professor of Economics Professor Mushtaq Khan South and South East Asia: institutional economics and political economy; the economics of rent seeking, corruption and patron-client networks; late industrialisation and the state
Professor of Economics Professor Costas Lapavitsas Theory of banking and finance; history of economic thought; the Japanese financial system. Teaching interests include banking and finance, the Japanese economy, history of economic thought.
Reader in Economics Dr Dic Lo China and globalisation; industrialisation; Soviet-type economic system and transformation; East Asian economic institutions and development; comparative political economy. China.
Lecturer in Economics Dr Risa Morimoto Environmental economics, Development economics, Economics of hydropower development, Energy economics, Transport economics, Economics of sustainable business, Sustainable economic development policy in developing countries, Climate change.
Senior Lecturer in Economics Dr Miguel Nino-Zarazua Areas of expertise: Social Protection and Welfare Institutions in the Global South; Informality and Labour Market Policies; Poverty, Social Exclusion, Inequality and Polarization; Tax Policy and Redistribution; the Economics of Microfinance; Aid and Development; Political Economy of State Capacity; Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia.
Senior Lecturer in Economics Dr Sara Stevano Development economics and feminist political economy; labour; political economy of food and nutrition; households; development and economic policy; social reproduction theories; time use; poverty; mixed methods; primary data collection; Africa (Mozambique, Ghana, South Africa).
Professor of Economics and Finance Professor Jan Toporowski Macroeconomics, monetary policy, Kalecki and Post-Keynesian Economics, credit cycles, the Franc Zone
Professor of Economics Professor Ulrich Volz International Finance, Open Economy Macroeconomics, Financial Market Development and Stability, Development and Transition Economics, Global Economic Governance, East Asian Financial Markets
Emeritus Professor of Economics Professor Anne Booth The role of agriculture in the growth process in Indonesia; poverty measurement, determinants and policy; oil and economic policy; economic history of East and South Asia. Teaching includes, South East Asia.
Emeritus Professor of Economics Professor Chris Bramall Economic growth, income inequality, famine and agricultural development in modern China, the political economy of Maoism, The development of the contemporary Chinese empire
Emeritus Professor of Economics Professor Ben Fine I have been Professor of Economics at SOAS since 1992, having travelled the short distance from Birkbeck College where I was Professor of Economics, having been a founding member of the Department in 1972.
Emeritus Professor of Economics Professor Jane Harrigan International finance for development and the economic reform programmes associated with IMF and World Bank finance to developing countries; the links between macro-economic policy and agricultural performance in sub-Saharan Africa; the gender dimensions of economic liberalisation and globalisation; and the political economy of economic reform in the Middle East and North Africa. Cross-cutting these subject areas are two geographical areas of specialisation, namely sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on Ghana and Eastern and Southern Africa, and the Middle East and North Africa.
Emeritus Professor of Economics Dr Graham Smith Emerging stock markets, financial futures, the markets for gold and other metals. Time series econometrics.
Professorial Research Associate Professor Deborah Johnston Analysis and measurement of poverty; the working of rural labour markets; agrarian change and rural development; the socio-economic impact of HIV/AIDS
Professorial Research Associate Professor William Lazonick William Lazonick is President of the Academic-Industry Research Network and Professor Emeritus of Economics at University of Massachusetts Lowell. He has professorial affiliations with SOAS, University of London and Institut Mines-Télécom in Paris.
