Rate My Professor Ester Barinaga

Barinaga obtained her PhD in Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics in 2002, with a dissertation titled 'Levelling Vagueness: A Study of Cultural Diversity in an International Project Group.' She holds an MBA and a Master's in International Management from ESADE Business School. Her career trajectory includes researcher at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (2002-2006), visiting scholar at Stanford University (2007-2008), associate professor and professor with special responsibilities at Copenhagen Business School (2007-2013), and professor at Lund University since 2019. She was awarded a three-year post-doctoral scholarship by the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation. Key publications feature the monograph 'Remaking Money for a Sustainable Future: Money Commons' (2024, Bristol University Press), 'Tinkering with Malleable Grassroots Infrastructures: Kenyan Local Currencies in Informal Settlements' (2023, Urban Geography), 'Micro-finance in a Developed Welfare State: A Hybrid Technology for the Government of the Outcast' (2014, Geoforum), and 'Politicising Social Entrepreneurship: Three Social Entrepreneurial Rationalities Toward Social Change' (2013, Journal of Social Entrepreneurship). Barinaga founded the social venture Förorten i Centrum (2010-2020), coordinates master's courses on re-imagining capitalism and money, supervises PhD students, delivers public lectures and workshops, and leads projects such as DECODE on decentralized energy communities funded by the Swedish Energy Agency.