ROSIE COLLINGTON

I am a political economist and writer, researching the state, (global) governance, and the climate crisis.

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

Since March 2024, I have been employed as a Post-Doctoral Researcher in International Political Economy at Copenhagen Business, where my research focuses on modelling practices and algorithmic governance in green transition and industrial policy. This research is part of the Financial Transparency Package, led by Professor Leonard Seabrooke, within the Villum and Velux Foundation-funded Algorithms, Data and Democracy project.

I am also completing a PhD at University College London’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, which explores what affects the development of state capacity for implementing initiatives within green transition strategies. My thesis demonstrates how finance ministries and public investment banks, and their approaches to economic development and growth, influence national bureaucracies’ ability to pursuing carbon neutrality. In so doing, it also identifies processes of contestation in green transition governance within, across, and beyond national bureaucracies. The findings point to the importance of embedding ambitious emissions reduction objectives in public finance allocation processes, with broader relevance for debates on policy coordination, structural change and de-risking regimes, and green finance. More generally, they underscore the value of analysing national bureaucracies as sites of politics, and public sector organisations as agents in the international political economy.

Find me on Twitter @RosieCollingto and on Google Scholar here.