Rate My Professor Sandra Sequeira

Sandra Sequeira is a Professor of Economics at the School of Public Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science. She earned a PhD from Harvard University in 2009, an MA from The Fletcher School in 2002, and a Licenciatura in Economics from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, in 2000. Her academic career at LSE includes serving as Assistant Professor in the Department of International Development from 2010 to 2016, Associate Professor from 2017 to 2025, and promotion to her current position in 2025. She has held visiting appointments as Scholar at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Fall 2018, Stanford University in 2015, New York University Department of Economics in 2009, and Visiting Assistant Professor at Harvard Kennedy School from 2013 to 2014. Sequeira is a research affiliate at STICERD, CEPR, Novafrica, and the International Growth Centre, a Fellow of the Royal Economic Society, co-editor of Economics Letters since 2024, founder and inaugural co-director of the MSc in Economic Policy for International Development at LSE, and co-director of the CEPR Research Policy Network on the Political Economy of Migration.

Her research specializes in development economics, focusing on migration and state capacity, political economy, trade, and consumer behavior. Key publications include "Civil War induced Forced Displacement and Human Capital" with Giorgio Chiovelli, Stelios Michalopoulos, and Elias Papaioannou (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2026); "Zero-sum Thinking and the Roots of U.S. Political Differences" with Sahil Chinoy, Nathan Nunn, and Stefanie Stantcheva (American Economic Review, 2026); "Identity, Media and Consumer Behavior" with Mattia Nardotto (Review of Economic Studies, 2025); "Immigrants and the Making of America" with Nathan Nunn and Nancy Qian (Review of Economic Studies, 2019); "Corruption, Trade Costs and Gains from Tariff Liberalization: Evidence from Southern Africa" (American Economic Review, 2016); and "Closing the Gender Profit Gap?" with Catia Batista and Pedro Vicente (Management Science, 2022). Among her honors are the British Academy Fellowship (2025-2026), Philip Leverhulme Prize in Economics (2022), European Research Council Starting Grant (2019-2024), ESRC Knowledge Transfer Partnership Award (2017), and WHO Raise Competition Award (2019). Her studies have driven anti-corruption reforms in African ports and improved primary health care efficiency in Mozambique, complemented by an award-winning documentary on refugee integration challenges.