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Sedat Aybar is Associate Professor of Economics and currently Head of Department of Economics, at Kadir Has University in Istanbul. He has worked in Asia and Africa on development projects and taught at a variety of universities in the UK and abroad. He has published extensively on political economy of money and finance, international economics, economic theory and development economics.
Thomas Claflin
Paulo L dos Santos lectures in capital markets, finance and microeconomic theory at the School of Oriental and African Studies. His research focuses on the political economy of capital markets, financial intermediation, and the internationalisation of banking. He is also a specialist in the political economy of the Philippine banking sector. He has written extensively on the transformation of contemporary banking, technological innovation, and on the entry of foreign banks into middle-income economies.
Gary Dymski is a professor at the department of economics of the University of California, Riverside. Since 2003, he has been founding Director of the University of California Center, Sacramento. Gary has several books, including The Bank Merger Wave (1999), and six co-edited volumes. His most recent book publications are Capture and Exclude: Developing Nations and the Poor in Global Finance (Tulika Books, New Delhi, 2007), co-edited with Amiya Bagchi, and Reimagining Growth: Toward a Renewal of the Idea of Development, co-edited with Silvana DePaula (Zed, London, 2005), including Reimagining Growth: Toward a Renewal of the Idea of Development, co-edited with Silvana DePaula (Zed, 2005). Gary has published more than 100 articles and chapters on banking, financial fragility, urban development, microcredit, credit-market discrimination and redlining, the Latin American and Asian financial crises, economic exploitation, housing finance, the subprime crisis, and financial governance.
Sherif Elkholy specialises on private equity and structured financing, having worked with Actis Capital, HSBC, and EFG-Hermes in Egypt. His research interests are in the economics and the political economy of asset-backed securitization in emerging markets with a special focus on Egypt.
Nuray Ergunes currently lectures in the Faculty of Political Sciences of Istanbul University, Turkey. Her research interests include banking and finance, gender, and the Turkish Economy. Recent publications are ‘Banks, Accumulation, Corruption: the Banking Sector of Turkey after 1980s’, SAV Publications, 2008; ‘Neoliberalism, Informalisation and Women Labour’, Iktisat Review, 2008; and ‘Restructuring of Finance Capital in the Process of Internationalisation of Capital’, in ‘Actual Issues of Capitalism in Turkey’ Dipnot Publications, 2008.
Giorgos Galanis is finishing a PhD in Mathematical Systems Theory and he is also studying Finance and Development at SOAS. His research interests include the monetary transmission mechanism and the financial structures of UK and Japan. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Historical Materialism.
Diego Guerrero is professor of Political Economy in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. His latest published books are Un resumen completo de El capital de Marx, MAIA, 2008; and La explotación: Trabajo y capital en España (1954-2001), El Viejo Topo, 2006. He is the author of other books about the Spanish economy, competitiveness, macroeconomics and crisis, political economy and ‘A History of the Heterodox Economic Thought’ (1997, 2008). He is a member of Asalariados sin Fronteras (Wage Workers Without Frontiers).
Martina Horakova
George Irvin is a retired professor of economics and is currently Professorial Research Fellow in Development Studies at the University of London, SOAS. He was for many years a development economist at ISS, The Hague, where he taught, researched and did consultancy in Africa, Asia and Latin America. At present he works on world trade and financial flows and the EU economies.
Makoto Itoh is Professor of Economics, Kokushikan University, in Tokyo, Emeritus Professor of the University of Tokyo, and a member of the Japan Academy. He has taught at several Universities abroad, including the New School of Social Research, New York University, the University of London, the University of Sydney, and others. His books in English include: ‘Value and Crisis’, Monthly Review Press and Pluto Press, 1980. (translated into Dutch, French, Korean and Chinese). ‘The Basic Theory of Capitalism, Macmillan’, 1988. ‘The World Economic Crisis and Japanese Capitalism’, Macmillan, 1990. ‘Political Economy for Socialism’, Macmillan,1995. ‘Political Economy of Money and Finance’ (with Costas Lapavitsas), Macmillan, 1999. ‘The Japanese Economy Reconsidered’, Palgrave, 2000.
Alex Izurieta is a Senior Economic Affairs Officer in the Development Policy and Analysis Division of UN/DESA. His area of expertise is the analysis of global economic developments and the evaluation of policy scenarios with the help of macro-economic and global models. He contributes to the two flagship publications of the Division, ‘World Economic Situation and Prospects’ and ‘World Economic and Social Survey’, as well as to UN/DESA Policy Briefs and other official UN documents on economic and social issues. Prior to his current post, he worked as a Senior Researcher at the University of Cambridge, UK, as a Research Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, New York, and as a Researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University in The Hague. He has published in those institutions and in various international journals.
Annina Kaltenbrunner is a PhD candidate in the Economics Department at SOAS. Her research is on exchange rate dynamics in emerging markets and its implications for exchange rate management. More specifically, she analyses the internationalisation of the Brazilian real and its effect on exchange rate dynamics. She is also interested in the analysis and role of money in different theoretical economic approaches.
Mert Karabiyikoglu had his formal training in international political economy, comparative politics and state theory at METU, Ankara. He is doing pre-doctoral research on political economy of financial systems, longue durée analysis of international debt economy, internationalisation of capital markets, and accumulation of liabilities in Turkey.
Elif Karacimen is a PhD student in School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her research focues the political economy of Turkish banking and household indebtedness in Turkey.
George Labrinidis is a PhD candidate in UADPhilEcon, the University of Athens Doctoral Program in Economics. His research looks into the nature of contemporary world money and its management, following the significant changes that have occurred since the mid 1970’s in the structure of the capitalist mode of production. He is a scholar of the State Scholarships Foundation, Greece.
Costas Lapavitsas teaches economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has done research in the political economy of money and finance, the Japanese economy, history of economic thought, economic history, and the contemporary world economy. He has published widely, and his books include ‘Political Economy of Money and Finance’ (with M. Itoh), MacMillan, 1999, ‘Development Policy in the Twenty-first Century’ (with B. Fine and J. Pincus), Routledge, 2001, ‘Social Foundations of Markets, Money and Credit, Routledge, 2003, and ‘Beyond Market-Driven Development’ (with M. Noguchi), Routledge, 2005.
Christina Laskardis is currently involved in community projects in Athens, Greece, having completed a MSc. in Political Economy of Development at SOAS, London. Interests include foreign bank entry in developing countries, community finance schemes, cooperative structures and environmental education.
Iren Levina is a PhD student at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research is focused on political economy of finance and development of a Marxist theory of finance in its interrelationship with circuit of total social capital. She is also interested in methodology and philosophy of political economy. She has published work on the relationship between the financial and non-financial systems of the economy, and on the concept of contradiction.
Stephen Lewis is an economist who has spent more than 30 years in the European banking sector as a management consultant and practitioner. He continues to consult for many banks and central banks and is a visiting lecturer at London, Manchester, Warwick and City Business Schools. He also taught Economics at the Swiss National Bank’s Study Centre and presently teaches the Bank of England and FSA on Complexity and Complex Adaptive Systems. He is a PhD candidate in the Economics Department at SOAS researching the usefulness (or otherwise) of Complexity Science and Complex Systems/Networks for UK/European banking regulation.
Duncan Lindo has extensive experience of derivatives in a large financial institution from both a controlling and a trading perspective, including most recently in the emerging area of active counterparty risk management. His research interests centre on derivatives: uses, users, their extraordinary expansion over recent years and the implications for developing economies.
Thomas Marois is a lecturer of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Thomas’ expertise is in the area of bank ownership and control under neoliberalism, including issues of bank privatization, state-owned banks, and foreign bank control in emerging capitalisms, especially Mexico and Turkey. Thomas’ current research explores how bank workers and labour help to underwrite the seeming resilience of banks in emerging capitalisms.
James Meadway is a PhD student in the economics department at the School of Oriental and African Studies, researching risk and regulation in financial markets. He has worked previously as a policy advisor in the UK Treasury, and is a member of the editorial board of Counterfire magazine.
Jo Michell is a PhD candidate in the Economics Department at SOAS, University of London. His research is on macroeconomics and finance. Research interests include stock-flow consistent modelling and the financial development of contemporary China.
Carlos Morera Camacho is a Professor at the Economic Research Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He has also taught in several Mexican universities and was a guest researcher at Oxford University and the Federal University of Bahía. He is the author and co-author of several books and chapters of books, among them El capital financiero en México y la globalización, Era Mexico City 1997; Globalización inserción de México y alternativas incluyentes para el siglo XXI, Porrúa-UNAM-IIEc; Mexico City, 2001; Mexico: Work Process, Oil Revenue and Financial Restructuring in World Economy´, published in the proceedings of the international symposium held in Beijing, China. Morera has been a speaker at seventy national and international seminars.
José Antonio Rojas Nieto is a Professor at the Academy of Political Economy and (until 1990) as professor in postgraduate studies in the Energy Economics Programme in the UNAM Economics Department. He has also worked as a technical specialist at Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) since 1991. He has conducted research on energy economics since 1980, and received UNAM’s “Jesus Silva Herzog” Economy Award in 1986. He has also been a regular contributor to the national dailies unomásuno and, more recently, La Jornada.
Özlem Onaran is Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster. She has formerly worked at Middlesex University, Vienna University of Economics and Business, the University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Istanbul Technical University, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she is currently also a research associate at the Political Economy Research Institute. Her research areas include globalization, crisis, distribution, employment, investment, development, and gender. She has articles in books and journals such as Cambridge Journal of Economics, World Development, European Journal of Industrial Relations, Applied Economics, International Review of Applied Economics, Eastern European Economics, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Developing Economies.
Juan Pablo Painceira is currently carrying out research in the political economy of money and finance at SOAS, University of London. He is also interested in the philosophy of science and macroeconomics. He has worked for several years on the Brazilian financial sector, at the Banco Central do Brasil. He has published work on financial instability, the South Korean financial system, and economic method.
Demophanes Papadatos works in the banking sector in Greece. He is also currently undertaking research in the political economy of money and finance at SOAS, University of London. His research interests include money and finance, economic development and macroeconomics.
Jago Penrose
Eugenia Pires is a PhD candidate in the Economics Department at SOAS, University of London. Her research is focused on the political economy of migrants’ remittances, from a diaspora perspective. She worked at the Portuguese public debt agency, developing extensive experience in international capital markets from the issuer perspective
Jeff Powell worked as Coordinator of the Bretton Woods Project, a UK NGO which acts as a watchdog of the World Bank and IMF. Jeff has also worked with community economic development initiatives in Southeast Asia and Latin America, with a special focus in community-level responses to financial crisis. He is currently pursuing doctoral research on the role of commercial banking in economic development.
Yoshihiko Saito is Professor at the Department of Economics of Dokkyo University, Japan. Since 2007 he has been Director of the Japanese Society for the Economic Analysis of Securities. He has published widely, and his books include ‘Retail Banking in Britain’, Jicho-sha, 1994, ‘Thrift Institutions and Institutional Investors in Britain’, Nihon-Keizai-Hyoron-sha, 1999, and ‘Japan’s Monetary Policy and Bank Behaviour in the Era of Financial Liberalization’, Nihon-Keizai-Hyoron-sha, 2006.
Alexis Stenfors is a PhD student at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His research focues on central banks, financial markets and game-theoretical concepts of “power”.
Engelbert Stockhammer is associate professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. His research areas include macroeconomics, financialisation, European integration, and heterodox economics. He has published articles on issues such as the finance-dominated accumulation regime, demand effects of changes in functional income distribution, and economic policy in Europe as well as a book on ‘The rise of unemployment in Europe’ (Edward Elgar, 2004).
Nuno Teles
Jan Toporowski has worked in fund management, international banking, and central banking. His most recent book, Theories of Financial Disturbance, was published by Edward Elgar in 2005. Since 2004 he has been teaching at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
John Weeks is Professor Emeritus of Development Economics at SOAS. He has research interests in theoretical and policy-applied macroeconomics. He is author of A Critique of Neoclassical Macroeconomics (1989, in revision) and Capital, Exploitation and Crises (forthcoming 2011).