Dr Natalya Naqvi

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.

Her current project investigates the conditions under which developing countries exert public control over their financial sectors in order to support industrial policy, despite constraints posed by economic globalisation. She also works on the political economy of sovereign debt and financial markets, and the causes and consequences of privatisation across the developing world.  Related work is published in The Journal of Politics, International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, and Review of International Political Economy, among others.

She was previously Assistant Professor at 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