Stephanie Blankenburg leads the Economic Cooperation and Integration amongst Developing countries Branch at UNCTAD. She joined UNCTAD in 2015, previously heading its Debt and Development Finance Branch.
Prior to joining UNCTAD, Stephanie was Senior Lecturer in Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London (UK) for 15 years and a research fellow at the ESRC Business Centre in the Department of Applied Economics at Cambridge University (UK) prior to her move to SOAS.
She has also worked as a government advisor in Venezuela (2007-2008) and is an Associate Editor of the Cambridge Journal of Economics, following over a decade as a full member of the editorial board until 2015.
She is co-author of two monographs on the theory and practice of neoliberalism. Other areas of research and publication include issues in development finance, the political economy of industrial policy in developing countries, the evolution of multinational corporations and the history of economic thought.
She holds a PhD in Economics from Cambridge University.