The keynote speaker of the 28th ESHET Annual Conference is
ILENE GRABEL
Ilene Grabel is Distinguished University Professor and co-director of the MA program in Global Economic Affairs at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver.
Grabel’s research focuses on global financial governance (including feminist approaches to financial governance); transregional, multilateral, and regional financial institutions; the political economy of domestic and international financial policies; developmental finance and the financial systems of countries in the Global South; financial and debt crises; capital controls, exchange rates, and central banking; and “post-American” transformations in the global financial order.
Her research has been published in the Cambridge Journal of Economics, World Development, Journal of Development Studies, Review of Social Economy, Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics, Feminist Economics, Review of International Political Economy, Economía Informa, Ola Financiera, International Review of Applied Economics, International Affairs, International Journal of Political Economy, Review of Radical Political Economics, Eastern Economics Journal, Journal of Economic Issues, Forum for Social Economics, Current History, International Theory, and Development and Change.
Grabel’s book, When Things Don’t Fall Apart: Global Financial Governance and Developmental Finance in an Age of Productive Incoherence (MIT Press, 2017), won the 2019 European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy Robinson Prize, the 2019 International Studies Association International Political Economy Best Book Award, and the 2018 British International Studies Association International Political Economy Book Prize.
Her previous book (with Ha-Joon Chang), Reclaiming Development (Bloomsbury Publishing, [2004]2014), has been translated widely.
Grabel has conducted commissioned research for the Division of Globalization and Development Strategies of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, UN Group of 24, Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), International Poverty Centre for Inclusive Growth of UNDP, United Nations Women, International Labour Organization, UN University/World Institute for Development Economics Research, and the NGOs Action Aid, Third World Network, and New Rules for Global Finance.