ROSIE COLLINGTON

I am a political economist based at Copenhagen Business School, where I’m employed as a Post-Doctoral Fellow.

I am interested in how modes of governance in the state and international financial institutions evolve in relation to broader transformations in the global political economy. My current research explores how new forms of expertise and governance tools, including energy scenarios, disclosure infrastructures and algorithmic technologies, are reshaping climate finance allocation and energy planning. This research is part of the Financial Transparency Package that Professor Leonard Seabrooke is co-PI of within the Algorithms, Data and Democracy project. My PhD research focused on the challenges of establishing state capacity for multi-sectoral decarbonization strategies within the context of de-risking approaches to climate finance.

In February 2023, a book I wrote with my PhD supervisor, Mariana Mazzucato, was published by Penguin/Allen Lane. Subsequent editions of The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies have been published by Penguin Press, Laterza (Italy), Campus Verlag (Germany), Epikentro (Greece), Taurus (Spain), Companhia de Letras (Brazil), Heterodox (Poland), and Nieuw Amsterdam (Netherlands), with other translations forthcoming.

Outside of research, I love teaching and supervising students on all the above, and also enjoy writing and speaking for audiences beyond the walls of the university. I have contributed to outlets including The Guardian, NPR and BBC Radio 4.

My literary agent is Chris Wellbelove at Aitken Alexander. Please contact him for any public engagements – but for anything academic, including Guest Lectures, it’s best to drop me an e-mail directly on rc.ioa@cbs.dk.

I don’t really use Twitter anymore, but my BlueSky account is @rosiecollington.bsky.social, this is my LinkedIn profile, and here is my Google Scholar page.