Welcome

Hello!

I’m a political economist currently working as a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in International Development at King’s College, London. My work is broadly centered on three strands of research, namely uneven development, international financial subordination, and critically scrutinising the Economics discipline itself.

I’ve approached uneven development from both theoretical and empirical angles. For example, I made the case for a redefinition of ‘dependency theory’ as a research program to offer guidance for a renewal of development economics/studies by bringing in broader structural questions of how inequality is produced and reproduced in the global economy. My work on finance and production takes as a starting point the polarizing tendencies of capitalism and aims to theorize various uneven structures from the vantage point of global history and the global South.

I’ve put forward a research agenda on international financial subordination with an interdisciplinary group of co-authors. This agenda is about unearthing how and why the structural power of finance takes a particularly violent form of expression in the global South. Some of my empirical work has specifically focused on how finance in African economies is shaped by uneven structures of the global economy.

Finally, my research on critically scrutinising the Economics field itself ranges from exploring the Eurocentrism of the discipline (as well as related disciplines and sub-disciplines), the impact of the use of GDP as the main measure of growth, and critically evaluating the use of randomised control trials (RCTs) in Economics. I am co-author of the book Decolonising Economics – An Introduction (2025).

Underlying these three interrelated strands lies my strong interest in exposing and countering Eurocentric views of economic processes and opening up space for more radical forms of theorisation to better understand and challenge structures of exploitation and subordination.

Beyond my research, I work to create better and stronger structures to support radical scholarship and to bring radical work to a broader audience. To this end, I’m founding editor of the blog Developing Economics, founding steering group member of Diversifying and Decolonising Economics (D-Econ), management committee member of the Association for Heterodox Economics and an advisory board member of IDEAs Africa. I’m also co-host of the podcast Hierarchies of Development. Have a listen and let me know what you think.

On this website you can find some of my research, media clips, blog posts, and updates. You can also view my CV and contact information.

I have a Ph.D. in Economics from The New School and an M.Sc. in Development Studies from the London School of Economics.

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If you need a PDF of any article or book chapter of mine that isn’t open access, do request it via ResearchGate and I’ll send it to you.

Here is my CV (December 2025).