Date: 4 February 2026
Time: 18:00 -19:30
Speaker: Dr Ilias Alami
Talk Title: “tbc'
Location: Ramsden room, St Catharine's College
The seminar series is supported by the Cambridge Political Economy Society and the Economics and Policy Group at the Cambridge Judge Business School.
Talk Overview:
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Speaker Overview:
Dr Ilias Alami is University Assistant Professor in the Political Economy of Development in the Centre of Development Studies and the Department of Politics and International Studies., where he writes about state capitalism, geopolitics, the green transition, global finance, and racial capitalism. He is also the Director of the PhD programme in Development Studies.
Prior to joining Cambridge, he held research and teaching positions at Uppsala University, Maastricht University, and Manchester University. He also held visiting positions at the University of Sydney, the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Sao Paulo, the University of Johannesburg, and Sciences Po Paris. He is the author of Money Power and Financial Capital in Emerging Markets: Facing the Liquidity Tsunami (Routledge, 2019) and co-author of The Spectre of State Capitalism (Oxford University Press, 2024). Ilias is a fellow of the Transition Security Project, a member of the Second Cold War Observatory, and a member of Common Wealth's Green Planning Commission.