Thomas Marois is Professorial Research Associate at the Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS, University of London.
He is the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Public Banking for Sustainability, Inclusion, and Prosperity, Professor of Political Economy, and Director of the Public Banking Project at McMaster University, Canada.
He is a leading scholar of public banks worldwide, focusing on public-public collaborations for the financing of green and just transitions. Thomas is author of the award-winning 2021 book Public Banks: Decarbonisation, Definancialisation, and Democratisation(Cambridge University Press). He sits on the Council of Europe Development Bank Award for Social Cohesion Jury and hosts the Finance in Common Summit Global Research Network ‘PDB Academic’ at the Public Banking Project.
Research interests
Public banks
Public development banks
Just transitions
Public-public collaborations
Global PDB ecosystem
Climate finance
Publications
Public Banks: Decarbonisation, Definancialisation, and Democratisation
Marois, Thomas (2021). Cambridge: (Cambridge University Press)
Introduction: Public Banks Matter At A Time Of Covid-19
Barrowclough, Diana, Marois, Thomas and McDonald, David A. (2020). In: McDonald, David A., (eds.), Marois, Thomas, (eds.) and Barrowclough, Diana, (eds.), Public Banks And Covid-19: Combatting The Pandemic With Public Finance. Geneva, Switzerland: Municipal Services Project/Eurodad/UNCTAD, pp 1-25
The KfW And Covid-19: Coordinating Public Finance Responses At Home And Abroad
Marois, Thomas (2020). In: McDonald, David A., (eds.), Marois, Thomas, (eds.) and Barrowclough, Diana, (eds.), Public Banks And Covid-19: Combatting The Pandemic With Public Finance. Geneva, Switzerland: Municipal Services Project/Eurodad/UNCTAD, pp 149-170
The Neoliberal Restructuring of Banking in Turkey Since 2001
Marois, Thomas and Güngen, Ali Rıza (2019). In: Yalman, Galip L., (eds.), Marois, Thomas, (eds.) and Güngen, Ali Rıza, (eds.), The Political Economy of Financial Transformation in Turkey. Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge
The Transformation of the State Financial Apparatus in Turkey since 2001
Marois, Thomas (2019). In: Yalman, Galip L., (eds.), Marois, Thomas, (eds.) and Güngen, Ali Rıza, (eds.), The Political Economy of Financial Transformation in Turkey. Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge
Introduction: Debating Financial Transformation in Turkey
Yalman, Galip L., Marois, Thomas and Güngen, Ali Rıza (2019). In: Yalman, Galip L., (eds.), Marois, Thomas, (eds.) and Güngen, Ali Rıza, (eds.), The Political Economy of Financial Transformation in Turkey. Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge
Reconstruyendo La Banca Pública_El Caso De Turquía
Marois, Thomas and Güngen, Ali Rıza (2017). In: Cortés-Ramos, Alberto, (eds.), Alpízar, Felipe, (eds.) and Cascante, María José, (eds.), Estados, Empresas Publicas y Desarrollo. San Jose, Costa Rica: Universidad de Costa Rica, pp 163-187
Marois, Thomas and Güngen, Ali Rıza (2016). In: McDonald, David A., (ed.), Making Public in a Privatized World: The Struggle for Essential Services. London: Zed Books
State-Owned Banks and Development: Dispelling Mainstream Myths
Marois, Thomas (2016). In: Erdoğdu, Mustafa, (eds.) and Christiansen, Bryan, (eds.), Handbook of Research on Comparative Economic Development Perspectives on Europe and the MENA Region. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, pp 52-72
Marois, Thomas (2015). In: Pradella, Lucia, (eds.) and Marois, Thomas, (eds.), Polarizing Development: Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis. London: Pluto Press
Polarising Development – Introducing Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis
Marois, Thomas and Pradella, Lucia (2015). In: Pradella, Lucia, (eds.) and Marois, Thomas, (eds.), Polarizing Development: Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis. London: Pluto Press, pp 1-12
The pandemic’s promising lessons for the future of green public banking: Policy insights for the UK Infrastructure Bank
Stadheim, Victoria, Sengul, Serdar and Marois, Thomas (2022). London: (UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, Policy Brief series (IIPP PB 18))
