Georgette Fernandez-Laris

Georgette Fernandez-Laris serves as a Teaching Associate in Business Economics at the University of Sheffield's Management School, affiliated with the Entrepreneurship, Strategy and International Business (ESIB) research group. She concurrently pursues PhD Candidacy in Economics at the same institution.

Her academic qualifications include:

• PhD Candidate in Economics, University of Sheffield
• MSc Research Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
• MSc Research Development Economics and Globalisation (Financial Integration track), Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University
• BSc in Business Economics (minor French), Miami University, Ohio, USA

Her research critically examines financial payment technologies' social implications and financial inclusion agendas in emerging economies like Mexico, emphasizing capability-building for effective technology adoption beyond mere access. She advocates reevaluating financial inclusion frameworks to enhance socioeconomic and subjective well-being.

Core research domains encompass:

• Governance of financial markets
• Alternative currencies and inclusive banking systems
• Impact investing and financial ethics
• Digital transformation of money sociology
• Financialization's societal consequences
• Ethical dimensions of financial innovations
• Economic epistemology foundations

Professionally, she contributes to the SPERI blog and previously served as a Research Fellow at the Seven Pillars Institute for Global Finance and Ethics (2017-2020), while maintaining membership in the Institute for New Economic Thinking's Young Scholars Initiative since 2015.