Sandra Sequeira

Sandra Sequeira serves as Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) School of Public Policy, maintaining active research affiliations with STICERD, CEPR, Novafrica, and the International Growth Centre. Her institutional roles position her at the nexus of academic research and global development policy implementation.

Her educational trajectory includes a PhD from Harvard University, Master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and undergraduate studies at Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal, establishing a multidisciplinary foundation for her research.

Research focuses on development economics and political economy with specialized investigations into gender profit gaps, climate-induced social fragmentation, and identity-driven economic behavior. Methodologically, her work combines natural experiments with field-based empirical approaches to examine policy interventions in developing economies, particularly across Sub-Saharan Africa and conflict zones.

Publication trends reveal increasing interdisciplinary convergence between political behavior analysis and development economics, notably through studies connecting zero-sum thinking to policy polarization and climate shocks to community resilience. Recent work demonstrates sophisticated integration of psychological frameworks with traditional economic modeling.

Through CEPR's VoxEU platform, she actively translates research into policy discourse via columns on nationalism, migration impacts, and historical economic development patterns, strengthening the academic-practitioner knowledge pipeline.