Biography

Virginia Crespi de Valldaura’s research examines how states use financial markets for public policy purposes. Her work lies at the intersection of comparative and international political economy. Her PhD dissertation focused on why left parties undertook financial liberalisation reforms in the 1980s in the context of the demise of Keynesianism, and why they persevered down this route once its adverse electoral and economic effects became clear. During her Max Weber Fellowship, Virginia is working on a new project on how states incentivise retail participation in financial markets and what implications this has for the success of the EU’s current Savings and Investment Union project. She is also developing a book proposal based on her PhD thesis.

Virginia received her PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2025. She holds an MA in International Public Management (summa cum laude) from Sciences Po Paris, as well as a BA in Ancient and Modern History (First Class Honours) and an MSt in Modern British and European History from the University of Oxford. Her work has been published in New Political Economy and Información Comercial Española (ICE).

Research projects, clusters and working groups

• Bayesian Inference for Qualitative Evidence

Mentor

• Waltraud, Schelkle