Montserrat Lopez Jerez

Montserrat Lopez Jerez is a Lecturer in Modern History and Global Economic History at the University of St Andrews' School of History. Her research focuses on colonial and post-colonial economic development in East and Southeast Asia, particularly examining the economic histories of Vietnam, Korea, and French Indochina. She holds a PhD in Economic History from Lund University (2015) and has held academic positions including Wallander Postdoctoral Fellow at Lund University and Lecturer at Malmö University. Her work explores institutional dynamics, factor endowments, and fiscal policies in colonial contexts, contributing to global economic history discourse.

Education includes a Bachelor in Business Administration and Economics from Universidad Pontificia Comillas (2002), a Master of Asian Studies from Lund University (2007), and her PhD (2015). She has authored/co-authored works on colonial fiscal systems, agricultural transformation, and development pathways in Asia. Awards include the Wallander Scholarship (2015).

Her research spans institutional analysis, colonial legacy impacts, and rural economic dynamics. Recent work examines divergence in Korean development paths and Vietnam's agricultural transformation. She supervises PhD students Bharat Sundararajan and Mashuang Tian.