I am a Professor of Political Economy at University College Dublin (UCD), where I lead an ERC-funded project, Democracy Challenged: How Corporate Tax Avoidance Fuels Wealth Inequality and Undermines Democracy.

The project revisits foundational questions in political economy: Who holds power in an age of concentrated wealth? Does inequality corrode democratic capitalism from within – and if so, how? What role do legal and technical elites play in this process?

My research sits at the intersection of comparative and international political economy, with a focus on advanced capitalist democracies. I’ve written on multinational tax avoidance, housing, wealth and income inequality, climate politics, social class, voting behaviour, austerity, and the transformation of work and welfare. I’m particularly interested in the dynamics of corporate power and wealth inequality, with a focus on the influence of Big Tech and Big Pharma.

Before joining UCD, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute in Cologne and a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. I completed my PhD in Public Policy at UCD and previously worked at the University of Amsterdam’s Institute for Advanced Labour Studies.

My work is published in leading journals including Journal of European Public Policy, Review of International Political Economy, Perspectives on Politics, Politics and Society, West European Politics, New Political Economy, and Socio-Economic Review. I’ve also contributed to volumes with major academic presses, and I co-organise the Comparative Capitalism(s) network at SASE.

At UCD, I teach courses on capitalism and democracy, economic inequality, European political economy, and comparative political science.

Beyond academia, I write a monthly column for The Business Post and regularly comment in Irish and international media on Irish and European politics, and the political economy of capitalism and democracy.