Department of Economics

Dr Sophie van Huellen

Key information

Roles
Department of Economics Research Associate
Qualifications
BA in Economics, Politics and Philosophy (University of Erfurt, Germany), MSc/PhD (SOAS University of London)

Biography

Sophie van Huellen is a Senior Lecturer in Development Economics at the Global Development Institute (GDI), University of Manchester and a Research Associate at the Department of Economics, SOAS University of London. 

Her research focus is on primary commodity markets and commodity dependency; financialisation of commodity markets, commodity sectors and food systems; global commodity chains; macro-financial linkages; international finance, and machine learning applications in economics.

Research interests

  • commodity markets
  • commodity dependency
  • financialisation
  • global commodity chains
  • macro-financial linkages
  • international finance, machine learning for applied econometrics