Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) of the University of Oxford. Previously, she was the Hellenic Bank Association Postdoctoral Fellow at the LSE’s Hellenic Observatory, and an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the LSE’s European Institute, from where she also holds her PhD. Her research focuses on the political economy of place. Her research has been published in New Political Economy, the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Studies in Comparative International Development, Politics & Society, Governance, and Political Studies Review. She is also a co-author of The Greco-German Affair in the Euro Crisis: Mutual Recognition Lost? (Palgrave Pivot, 2018). Her newest project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, is entitled “Land inequality and the politics of place in advanced democracies”, and it explores the economic and political consequences of differences in the land distribution at the local level. Her previous major project, “Cooperation against the odds”, explained under what conditions economic actors start working together in institutionally weak, low-trust settings to improve their productivity.

Research interests: Local development; Tourism sector; Comparative political economy; Collective action; Politics of place.