Bio
Lauren M. Phillips is Adjunct Professor of International Political Economy at SAIS Europe
Lead Advisor, Policy & Results, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Rome
Lauren Phillips is an international political economist specialized in development as well as finance; she has published on subjects related to Latin American financial markets and politics, US financialization and policy preferences, European sovereign borrowing and global governance. From 2008-2014 she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics; she currently leads a team focused on development results and strategy for a specialized agency of the United Nations and International Financial Institution (IFAD), where she has worked since 2015. She has also worked in finance, political risk and for a large NGO. Her undergraduate and master’s degrees are from Stanford University; her PhD is from the London School of Economics. She lives in Rome with her husband and two children and speaks Spanish, Portuguese and Italian fluently.
Courses
- International Political Economy
The course provides students with knowledge of and insight into political economy as a way of thinking and the substantive debates concerning the mutual interaction of economic dynamics and patterns of governance, including those pertaining to the relationship between various types of political behavior (e.g. voting, lobbying, protesting, media campaign, party politics) and economic change (e.g. globalization, (financial) market integration, labor market integration through migration, economic development). Students should thus emerge from the course with a sound understanding of how political economy developed as the integrated way of understanding society that we recognize as the contemporary field today. (Crossed listed International Political Economy/International Relations) (T&H)
