Max Weber Fellow
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies
Contact info
[email protected]
Virginia Crespi de Valldaura’s research examines how partisan preferences shape financial reforms and the role played by financial markets in states’ growth strategies. 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 will work on developing a book proposal based on her PhD thesis and expand her research to focus on the role of finance in industrial policy. 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).