Dr Natalya Naqvi
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Natalya Naqvi is Assistant Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of International Relations at LSE. Her research focuses on the political economy of finance and development, spanning globalization and national policy autonomy, industrial policy and the developmental role of the state, and sovereign debt and financial markets.
Related work is published in The Journal of Politics, International Studies Quarterly, the European Journal of International Relations, and the Review of International Political Economy, among others.
Her book, Renationalizing Finance in the Global South, examines the conditions under which developing countries exert public control over their financial sectors to support industrial policy, despite constraints posed by economic globalization. It is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
She was previously Assistant Professor at the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), University of Cambridge, and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, Princeton University, and the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. She holds a PhD and MPhil from the University of Cambridge.
Expertise
Economic development, role of the state, finance, industrial policy, globalisation
on leave Autumn and Winter Terms 2026/27