I am a researcher with a multi-disciplinary ethnographically-informed approach to finance, development, gender and politics.

I'm a PhD candidate at the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID). My current research project is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and looks at financialisation of credit in rural West Bengal. I trace how new financial services transform the postcolonial state and how gender is produced through financialisation. I use immersive cross-scalar fieldwork to study the state-finance relationship across 'International', 'national' and 'local' scales in which financial flows are embedded. My research is historically-informed, studying the intersections of finance and gender along a longer, imperial history of co-constitutive state-building and financial capitalism. 

I have been a visiting fellow at the University of Edinburgh and worked as a researcher on Swiss National Science Foundation projects on financialisation of pharmaceuticals and state accountability. Previously, I have worked extensively on political economy constructions of gender in Cameroon and on historically-driven transnational financial flows across Europe. I regularly consult NGOs and research centres on effects and takeup of new financial services for development and gender-equality.