Dr Rosie Collington
Political economist and writer
Personal Profile
Focus
Dr Rosie Collington is a political economist whose research explores the state, global governance, and the climate crisis. Her work is primarily centred on understanding how governments can effectively develop capabilities for green transitions, with a special focus on the role and influence of international actors such as development banks in this process. Alongside this, she possesses a profound interest in the history of economic ideas, particularly those that are related to the role of the state.
Background
Rosie co-authored ‘The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies’. This book offers a critique of the consulting industry's significant impact on governance and economic structures. Rosie is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in International Political Economy at Copenhagen Business School. She has completed her PhD at University College London’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose in 2024, where her research focused on the challenges of establishing state capacity for multi-sectoral decarbonization strategies within the context of de-risking approaches to climate finance. As a researcher she is committed to engaging with and writing for groups traditionally excluded in academia, and to trying to answer questions of broad public interest.