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Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven

  • Lecturer in International Development, University of York
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Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven is a Lecturer in International Development at the University of York and the Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre. She holds a PhD in Economics from The New School for Social Research.

Her research is centered on the role of finance in development, structural features of underdevelopment, the political economy of development, and critically assessing the economics field.

She’s also Founder and Editor of the blog Developing Economics, founder and steering group member of Diversifying and Decolonising Economics (D-Econ), and coordinator of the Association for Heterodox Economics.

In 2015, she founded INET’s Young Scholars Initiative’s Economic Development Working Group, which she was coordinator of for three years.

She holds BA and MA degrees in Development Studies from the University of Oslo and the London School of Economics (LSE), respectively.

Read more on her personal website.

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Why Do Economists Have Trouble Understanding Racialized Inequalities?

Article By Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven and Surbhi Kesar | Aug 3, 2020

Mainstream economics ignores historical and structural factors by design

Diversity and Excellence: Not A Zero Sum Game

Article By Besiana Balla, Devika Dutt, Naomi Friedman-Sokuler, Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven, Jenny Tue Anh Nguyen, Lilian Rolim, and Reinhard Schumacher | Mar 11, 2019

As young scholars, we have formulated a new plan for fostering diversity in both identity and scholarly thinking in economics—preconditions for academic rigor.

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