Kalina Manova

Kalina Manova is Professor of Economics at UCL specializing in international trade and investment. She has served on senior recruitment since 2020, and was Deputy Department Head in 2020-2023. She received her AB, AM and PhD from Harvard, and was previously Assistant Professor at Stanford, Visiting Assistant Professor at Princeton, and Professor at Oxford. She is Board Director of the Review of Economic Studies, Investment Committee Member at the European Economic Association, and Editorial Board Member of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy and previously Review of Economic Studies and Journal of International Economics. She is a fellow of the Econometric Society, the Centre for Economic Policy Research, the LSE Centre for Economic Performance, the International Growth Centre, and the CESifo Institute. She has been External Consultant at Bank of England, World Bank, and Inter-American Development Bank.

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Professor Manova has received the EEA Yrjö Jahnsson Award, the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Economics, a 5-year €2.4M ERC/UKRI Advanced Grant, a 5-year €1.5M ERC Consolidator Grant, a 3-year ₤750K ESRC Grant, and the Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs from the Kiel Institute for World Economy. She has been recognized with a Kenen Fellowship at Princeton and a Hoover National Fellowship at Stanford.

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Professor Manova's research explores four themes in international economics: (i) global production networks and multinational activity; (ii) firm management and innovation; (iii) trade policy and disintegration; and (iv) financial frictions in trade and FDI. Her work has been published in leading academic journals and policy forums such as QJE, JPE, REStud, REStat, JIE, and VoxEU. She frequently speaks at academic conferences and policy events. She has expertise on Europe, China, and the Americas, and delivers training courses at universities and government institutions.

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