Daniela Gabor

Professor Daniela Gabor

Discretionary Award 2025-26, Seminar Series 2025

Redesigning Finance for Climate Justice

What role does the state play in just low-carbon transitions? This project elaborates, conceptually and empirically, transformative state-centered models outside the macrofinancial constraints inherited from decades of financialised capitalism. It captures such models under the conceptual umbrella of the Big Green State, understood as a state with capacity to plan and finance decarbonisation through public ownership of strategic green infrastructure and manufacturing, alongside capacity to discipline carbon capital into shrinking its carbon footprint.

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Redesigning Finance for Climate Justice - Seminar Series 2025

This closed seminar forms part of a larger one-year project led by Professor Daniela Gabor.

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Blog posts

Decolonization of Economic Policy

In this Director's Note, Christopher Newfield draws on a forthcoming paper by Cornel Ban and Xuan Li to discuss why China has been able to stimulate green technologies where Western countries have so miserably failed.

Areas of interest

Economics Banking Money Green Transition Green Economics Finance International Finance Macroeconomics Political Economy Derisking Monetary Theory Decarbonisation

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Discretionary Award Seminar Series

Biography

Daniela Gabor is Professor of Economics at SOAS University of London.

She studies central banks, shadow money, just transitions and green industrial policies through a critical macrofinance lens.

Daniela has served as an expert advisor for the European Parliament, the G20 under the Brazil Presidency, the United Nations 4th Financing for Development Agenda, civil society organisations and central banks. She is currently running two funded projects, REDCAJU (Rethinking Developmentalism for Climate and Social Justice) with Ndongo Samba Sylla, IDEAS Network Africa, and REDEF (Redesigning Finance for Climate Justice – a Big Green State approach).

At SOAS, she is teaching International Finance, Macroecnomics and Global Economic Policy Analysis.

She is working on a book on the Wall Street Consensus for Norton.

Biographical details correct as of 26.02.25