I am a political economist with research interests in institutions and economic development, the political economy of development, economic resource allocation, and challenges to state building.
I am a visiting fellow at the School of Government and International Affairs (SGIA), Durham University, where I was a teaching fellow in comparative politics of development during the 2023-2024 academic year. Before that, I was an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. I hold a PhD from the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London.
In 2022, I authored a book on the economy of a post-conflict internationalized statebuilding. This work, which examines the reconstruction of Afghanistan’s economy during the US-led international intervention, is based on an institutionalist framework and extensive empirical data. It specifically focuses on resource allocation by private individuals in manufacturing activities. In addition, my research deals with the political economy of post-conflict statebuilding, the policy responsiveness of international financial institutions in conflict-affected environments, the semantics of development policy discourse, and labour recruitment in a nascent market-capitalist economy.
In 2023-2024, I taught and led seminars in the following modules and supervised seven undergraduate dissertations at Durham University: