Dr. Ewa Karwowski

Biography

Ewa Karwowski is a Senior Lecturer at King's College London specializing in Development Economics. She holds a PhD in Economics from SOAS, University of London. Ewa's research focuses on finance development, financialization, and comparative political economy, especially within emerging economies such as South Africa. Her expertise includes working as a Macroeconomist at the South African National Treasury from 2008 to 2011 and as an ODI fellow during 2008-2010. In 2018, she became a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Ewa is particularly interested in policy-relevant research that addresses real-world economic problems and has experience consulting for international organizations like the ILO and OECD. She is a board member of the Post-Keynesian Economics Society and a founding member of Reteaching Economics. Ewa has previously lectured in Development Economics and Finance at both the University of Hertfordshire and Kingston University in London. Her teaching includes Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences, and she supervises PhD students in areas related to financialization and its impacts on democracy and development in the Global South. Ewa's interdisciplinary research integrates heterodox economic perspectives, especially Post-Keynesian analysis, with an aim to critically assess the role of finance in emerging market economies.

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