Imogen Liu

Dr Imogen Liu

Early Career Fellow

Transition Pathways in the Periphery

The research brings critical political economy in dialogue with environmental and energy politics, taking both a broader, global perspective on the particular constraints imposed on peripheral states in contemporary capitalism, yet grounding analysis in the concrete agency of multinational firms that have been key in globalising production.

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Areas of interest

Finance International Finance Energy Transition Geopolitics Transnational Politics China Global South Governance Industrial Policy Banking

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ECF8

Biography

Imogen Liu is Assistant Professor of International Political Economy at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Her current research is animated by questions surrounding the politics and governance of finance, production and energy systems under conditions of heightened geopolitical competition. Two recurring themes in her work are a) the role of transnational firms in shaping divergent trajectories of industrial development in Europe, China, and the Global South and b) the changing nature of state-market relations where states have adopted increasingly interventionist and politicised forms of economic governance, embracing industrial policy, development banking and statecraft tools like sanctions and tariffs.

Biographical details correct as of 08.09.25