Dr. Ingrid Kvangraven

Biography

Ingrid joined the Department of International Development at King’s College London in September 2021. She obtained her PhD in Economics from the New School in 2018 and held a lectureship at the University of York prior to joining King's. Her work crosses disciplinary boundaries, drawing from development economics, international political economy, economic history, and development studies. Ingrid's research is broadly centered on the questions of uneven development, international financial subordination, and decolonizing economics, with a regional focus on African political economy. Ingrid is a founder and editor of the blog Developing Economics and serves as a co-founder and Steering Group Member of the Diversifying Decolonising Economics (D-Econ) initiative. She is also on the management committee of the Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE) and the advisory board for IDEAS Africa. Her empirical work focuses on finance in African economies, shaped by the global financial system's uneven structures. Ingrid critically scrutinizes the Eurocentrism in economics, the use of GDP as a measure of growth, and randomized control trials (RCTs) in Economics. She co-authored the book 'Decolonising Economics - Introduction' (2025). Through her research, Ingrid aims to expose and counter Eurocentric views on economic processes, opening spaces for theorizing from the South.

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