Dr. Julien Migozzi

Biography

Julien Migozzi is an economic geographer and an Assistant Professor in Development Studies at the University of Cambridge's Centre of Development Studies. His academic journey includes a postdoctoral research fellowship with the Urban Studies Foundation and research fellow positions at the University of Oxford, where he focused on Finance Geography. Prior to his time at Cambridge, he was a lecturer at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Julien has held visiting positions at UC Berkeley and the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town. Julien obtained his PhD from the University of Grenoble Alpes and holds a Master’s degree from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. His research intersects economic geography, urban studies, and economic sociology, with a particular focus on how digital capitalism transforms markets, cities, and inequalities, especially in South Africa and other emerging economies. His research interests include urban development, property, housing, digital finance (FinTech), financialization, and the impact of platforms, artificial intelligence, and data politics on class relationships and wealth inequalities. Julien employs a mixed-methods approach that incorporates ethnographic fieldwork, expert interviews, spatial analysis, and computational social science.

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