Leonard Seabrooke Scientist

Leonard Seabrooke is a Copenhagen Business School Professor in International Political Economy and Economic Sociology in the Department of Business and Politics and also a University of Warwick Professor in International Political Economy in the Department of Politics and International Studies. Seabrooke's research primarily concerns the politics of access to credit, tax, and property within economies, as well as international financial governance. He works on the social sources of how states generate international financial capacity, American structural power in the international financial system, the role of professions in solving long-term social and economic problems, how 'everyday politics' has influence in the world economy, how international policy is created through common standards, and the connection between welfare systems, housing, fertility, and international finance. Seabrooke has published articles in highly ranked international peer review journals in the field of International Political Economy, and served as a co-editor on the journal Review of International Political Economy between 2007 and 2012. He is a senior editor on the new team (2014–18) of International Studies Quarterly, the flagship journal of the International Studies Association.Seabrooke was also the Director of Studies of the Warwick Commission on International Financial Reform, which brought together economists, political scientists, and lawyers from both the scholarly and policy worlds to discuss financial reform and re-regulation.Seabrooke was Principal Investigator of the 'Professions in International Political Economies' (PIPES) project (2011-2014) funded by the European Research Council and led a research team based at the Copenhagen Business School. He was also Work Package 1 Leader of the 'Global Reordering: Evolution though European Networks' (GR:EEN) large-scale integrating project (2011-2015), funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) for research. From 2015 Len is Chief Scientist on a new EC Horizon 2020 project.