Dr Ingrid Bleynat is Senior Lecturer in International Development at the Department of International Development at King's and a Visiting Research Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics.

She joined King's upon completing her PhD in history at Harvard University. Before that, she trained as an economist at the University of Buenos Aires.

Research

• Political economy and history
• History of economic thought
• Latin America

Ingrid’s research focuses on the political economy of Latin America, especially Mexico and Argentina. She has written on the relationship between informality and corruption, and about the long-run relationship between wages, well-being, and inequality.

In collaboration with Oxfam Mexico and the magazine Chilango, she designed and implemented a new mixed-methods approach to multidimensional inequality in Mexico City.

She is currently doing fieldwork on the link between income inequality and social reproduction arrangements in Buenos Aires. Her book Vendors' Capitalism: A Political Economy of Public Markets in Mexico City was published by Stanford University Press in 2021.

PhD supervision

Ingrid welcomes applications on the political economy of Latin America in historical perspective, in particular (though not exclusively) related to inequality, informality, and care and domestic work.

Further details

See Ingrid's research profile