Anastasia Nesvetailova (BSc Econ; MSc IPE; PhD IPE) is the Head of the Macroeconomic and Development Policies Branch of UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva. She leads the team responsible for the flagship Trade and Development Report.
Before joining UNCTAD Anastasia has been a Professor of International Political Economy at City, University of London, and held visiting fellowships at the University of California, the Levy Institute of Bard College, the Danish Institute of International Studies and CERIS-ULB School in Brussels.
Anastasia’s main research has focused on the political economy of finance. She has published widely on issues of financial instability, financial innovation and governance, including three monographs (Fragile Finance: Debt, Speculation and Crisis in the Age of Global Credit , 2007; Financial Alchemy in Crisis: The End of Liquidity Illusion, 2010; and Sabotage: The Business of Finance, 2020, with R. Palan), as well as numerous academic and policy articles on the global financial system.