Sophie Van Huellen

Dr Sophie Van Huellen

Small Group Project 2024-25

The Origins of Commodity Dependence: Legacies of Empire in Lusophone Africa

With Victoria Stadheim & Helena Pérez Niño & Sara Stevano

The proposed research uses a critical political economy and combines insights from economics, history, politics, international relations, development studies, business, and sociology to characterise continuities and ruptures in structures of production and exports in the former Portuguese colonies in Africa.

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Areas of interest

Development Economics Commodity Markets Commodity Dependency Financialisation Global Commodity Chains International Finance Climate Finance Machine Learning Behavioural Economics

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FG10

Biography

Sophie van Huellen is a Senior Lecturer in Development Economics. Her research focus is on primary commodity markets and commodity dependency; financialisation; global commodity chains; macro-financial linkages; international finance, and machine learning applications in economics.

She obtained a BA in Economics, Politics and Philosophy from the University of Erfurt, Germany. She was further trained in economics (MSc and PhD) at SOAS University of London.

Biographical details correct as of 12.02.25