Virginia Crespi De Valldaura

Virginia Crespi De Valldaura is a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute's Department of Political and Social Sciences. As part of the prestigious Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies, she conducts research at the intersection of political economy, financial reforms, and industrial policy.

Dr. Crespi De Valldaura received her PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2025. She holds an MA in International Public Management (summa cum laude) from Sciences Po Paris, as well as a BA in Ancient and Modern History (First Class Honours) and an MSt in Modern British and European History from the University of Oxford.

Her research examines how partisan preferences shape financial reforms and the role played by financial markets in states' growth strategies. Specifically, her doctoral work focused on why left parties undertook financial liberalization reforms in the 1980s during the demise of Keynesianism, and why they persevered despite adverse electoral and economic consequences. During her fellowship, she is developing a book proposal based on her PhD thesis while expanding her research to explore finance's role in industrial policy. Her scholarly work has been published in New Political Economy and Información Comercial Española (ICE).