Redesigning Finance for Climate Justice - Leah Downey
The fifth in a closed seminar series forming part of a larger one-year project led by Professor Daniela Gabor.
Guest Speaker: Leah Downey
Lecturer in Political Theory, King’s College London
Before joining King’s College London in 2025, Leah Downey was a junior research scholar at St John’s College, Cambridge where she worked on democratic theory and macroeconomic policymaking. She is the author of Our Money: Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters (PUP 2024).
Dr Downey holds B.A.s in Mathematics and Economics from UNC Chapel Hill, an MSc in Economics & Philosophy from the LSE, and a PhD in Government from Harvard University. She has written on topics including the administrative state, monetary policy, macrofinance and the green transition, and the meaning of stability in politics and economics.
