Dr. Hridesh Gajurel

Biography

Hridesh Gajurel is an ARC Laureate Research Fellow specializing in Planetary Health Equity within the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University. Previously, he served as a Lecturer in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Queensland. His academic work focuses on comparative capitalism, corporate governance, financialization, and corporate short-termism. Gajurel's forthcoming monographs with Oxford University Press examine the divergence in corporate financialization and short-termism across the UK, Germany, and Japan, utilizing a new actor-centered 'bounded discretion' framework that integrates structural, institutional, and ideational constraints affecting decision-makers. His current research delves into the influence of ideas on governance practices and the diversity of corporate governance paradigms, particularly concerning economic policies in an era characterized by polycrisis and the pathways toward post-growth economic strategies.

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