Leslie Armijo

Leslie Elliott Armijo is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow for the Global Economic Governance Initiative at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center. She studies the ethics and political economy of international relations, comparative regionalism in the global South, and the politics of financial development in large, middle-income countries in Latin America and South Asia. Recent publications include “La política exterior latinoamericana en una era de transición,” in Carlos Fortin, Jorge Heine y Carlos Ominami, eds. El No Alineamiento Activo y América Latina: Una doctrina para el nuevo siglo (Catalonia 2021); “The Political Economy of Development Finance in Latin America” (Oxford Research Encyclopedias, 2020); “The Monetary and Financial Powers of States: Theory, Dataset, and Observations on the Trajectory of American Dominance” (New Political Economy, 2020); The BRICS and Collective Financial Statecraft (Oxford 2018); and “Explaining Infrastructure Underperformance in Brazil: Cash, Political Institutions, Corruption, and Policy Gestalts” (Policy Studies 2017). An Adjunct Research Professor of International Studies at Simon Fraser University and World Bank consultant, Dr. Armijo holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Her website is www.lesliearmijo.org.