Professor Dariusz Wójcik FAcSS
Dariusz, the Principal Investigator, is Professor of Economic Geography at the School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University, and Fellow of St Peters College Oxford. His research focuses on finance, globalisation, and urban and regional development. He has published over 100 articles and book chapters, and serves on the editorial board of Economic Geography, the Journal of Economic Geography, Environment and Planning A, Environment and Planning F, Growth and Change, and GeoJournal. His books include The Geography of Finance: Corporate Governance in a Global Marketplace (2007, OUP) and The Global Stock Market: Issuers, Investors and Intermediaries in an Uneven World (2011, OUP). He is the co-editor of the New Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography (2018, OUP) and International Financial Centres After the Global Financial Crisis and Brexit (2018, OUP). He has held visiting positions at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Hong Kong University, National University of Singapore, Beijing Normal University, and the University of Sydney, and convened the Global Conference on Economic Geography 2015. He is the chair of the Global Network on Financial Geography (www.fingeo.net). He has worked in KPMG in 1996-2002. He was awarded a Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2021.
Dr Stefanos Ioannou
Stefanos is a Research Associate at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. He obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of Leeds in 2016. Prior to his doctoral studies he completed an MPhil in Economics at the University of Athens (2012) and an MSc in Finance at Newcastle University (2009). His research interests include fiscal and monetary policy, financial macroeconomics, financial geography, political economy, and economic pedagogy. He has an extensive experience in applied econometrics, particularly in time series and panel data methods. He has also engaged in economic modelling, with particular experience in stock flow consistent macroeconomic models. Stefanos is currently involved in the research project 'Cities in Global Financial Networks: Finance and Development in the 21st Century'.
Dr Vladimír Pažitka
Vladimír is a Research Associate at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. Vladimír is a financial geographer with research interests in financial technology (FinTech), financial centres, social network analysis and investment banking. Vladimír has co-authored articles published in some of the leading journals in his field, including Economic Geography, Journal of Economic Geography, and Environment and Planning A. Prior to his current role, Vladimir has read for a DPhil in Economic Geography at the University of Oxford. During his time at the University of Oxford, Vladimir has worked on research projects funded by the European Research Council, Australian Research Council, Hong Kong Research Grants Council and the Centre for International Finance and Regulation.
Dr Michael Urban
Michael is a Research Associate at the School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University. He is a financial geographer with research interests in the geopolitics and geo-economics of capital market investments. His research straddles the frontiers of several disciplines including geography, financial economics, management studies and public administration. In particular, his work focuses on the asset management industry, institutional investors, and sustainable finance. Prior to his graduate studies, Michael worked for the private bank Pictet & Cie overseeing and developing their in-house mutual funds in emerging markets and thematic markets including Socially Responsible Investments (SRI). Michael holds a BSc in Management from HEC Lausanne, an MSc in Environment, Politics and Globalisation from King's College London, and a DPhil in Economic Geography from Oxford University. His doctoral thesis explored financial disintermediation as a means to improve the funding of retirement systems, resulting in a series of publications in journals including the Journal of Retirement, Territory, Politics, Governance and Geoforum.
Dr Timothy Monteath
Timothy is a Research Associate in the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University. He is an economic sociologist with interests in wealth, housing, financialization, computational methods and big data. In particular, his work seeks to bring these interests together through exploring the application of new methods and data to interdisciplinary research. Timothy holds a PhD in Sociology from the London School of Economics and has previously worked as a Research Officer in the HMRC datalab and as a doctoral intern at the Alan Turing Institute.
Dr Panagiotis (Takis) Iliopoulos
Takis is a Research Associate in Finance and Geography at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. He completed his PhD in Management at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has studied economics at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, (MPhil), New School for Social Research (MA) and Athens University of Economics and Business (BSc). His research interests include Economic Geography, International Political Economy, Industrial Relations in Global Value Chains and Global Production Networks, Input-Output Analysis and Network-Graph Theory. Currently works for the research project “Cities in Global Financial Networks: Finance and Development in the 21st Century” and has previously worked at the European Parliament as an Economic Policy Advisor.
Dr Julien Migozzi
Julien Migozzi is a Research Associate at the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford . As an economic and urban geographer, he holds a PhD from the University of Grenoble Alpes. He is a former student fellow of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, where he obtained a MA in Geography and passed the agrégation, the most selective examination in geography in France. His research lies at the intersection of financial geography, urban studies and economic sociology. He explores the financialization and digitalization of markets, focusing on the interplay between finance and real estate, to understand how digital platforms reconfigure market dynamics, affect segregation and inequalities by producing new geographies of housing, especially in South Africa. His research involves mixed methods which combines qualitative approaches with computational and spatial analysis. He has previously worked as a Senior Lecturer at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris).
Dr Liam Keenan
Liam is a Research Associate at the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. He is an economic geographer with interests in financialization, financial centres, Global Financial Networks and Global Production Networks. Holding a PhD in Economic Geography from Newcastle University, his research aims to unravel the causal and constitutive role of geography in uneven expressions of finance. He is currently working on the research project “Cities in Global Financial Networks: Finance and Development in the 21st Century” and has previously worked as a Lecturer in Economic Geography (Teaching and Scholarship) at Newcastle University.