Rate My Professor Brigitte Granville

Brigitte Granville is Professor of International Economics and Economic Policy and Head of the Department of Business Analytics and Applied Economics in the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary University of London. She holds a PhD in economics from France, having switched from medicine studies there, and studied literature at the University of Sussex. Her career started at the World Bank Research Department at age 24, followed by roles at JP Morgan, the Russian European Centre for Economic Policy, the Central Bank of Uzbekistan, and policy advisory in Moscow during Russia's 1990s transition. Joining Queen Mary in 2004, she is Deputy Director of the Centre for Globalisation Research, Trustee of Effective Intervention, columnist for Project Syndicate and The Conversation, and member of A/simmetrie Scientific Committee and OMFIF Advisory Board. She was appointed Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques in 2007 and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Granville's research centres on monetary economics and applications to political economy issues like inflation (Remembering Inflation, Princeton University Press, 2013), France's economic challenges (What Ails France?, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021), and Russia's post-communist transition (co-edited Russia’s Post-Communist Economy, Oxford University Press, 2001). Other edited books include The Processes and Practices of Fairtrade, Trust, Ethics and Governance (Routledge, 2013, co-edited with Janet Dine) and Sovereign Debt: Origins, Management, and Restructuring (RIIA/Brookings, 2003). Prominent articles are "Factor prices and induced technical change in the Industrial Revolution" with Otojanov and Fouquet (The Economic History Review, 2023), "Does greater financial openness promote external competitiveness in emerging markets? The role of institutional quality" with Aman, Mallick, and Nemlioglu (International Journal of Finance and Economics, 2022), "Eurozone cycles: an analysis of phase synchronization" with Hussain (International Journal of Finance and Economics, 2017), and "Withdrawal of Italy from the euro area: stochastic simulations of a structural macroeconometric model" with Bagnai and Mongeau Ospina (Economic Modelling, 2017). Her studies on Italy's euro exit were quoted in Bloomberg, and she delivered the Raleigh Lecture 2021 on national economy in global context. Granville established the Centre for Globalisation Research in 2005 and its seminar series featuring Nobel Prize winners.