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Joseph Baines is a Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy at King's College London, having joined in 2016. He held a fellowship in Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Joseph completed his PhD at York University in Toronto, where he examined the distributional consequences of food crisis and the restructuring of global value chains. His academic journey includes a Master's degree in Global Political Economy from the University of Sussex and an undergraduate degree in Politics and International Studies from the University of Warwick. His research focuses on critical questions in political economy, particularly regarding who benefits from transformations in the global political economy and the roles different actors play in facilitating or obstructing change. His current teaching portfolio reflects his research interests in energy, climate change, and multinational corporations. He has contributed to prominent publications and think tanks, and his work explores issues such as corporate power, ecological crises, and the impact of financialization on contemporary capitalism. Joseph is also engaged in supervising PhD candidates and encourages applications related to his research themes.
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