Anastasia Nesvetailova is Professor of International Political Economy at City, University of London, where she also directs City Political Economy Research Centre (CITYPERC). Anastasia’s main research focuses on the structure of the global financial system, processes of financialisation, financial crises and governance. Her key publications include Fragile Finance: Debt, Speculation and Crisis in the Age of Global Credit (2007), Financial Alchemy in Crisis: The Great Liquidity Illusion (2010) and Shadow Banking Scope, Origins Theories (2017). Her new monograph, co-authored with R. Palan, is Sabotage: The Hidden Nature of Finance, is to be published in 2019 with Penguin/Random House). In addition, Prof. Nesvetailova has authored numerous academic and media articles on financial crises, stability and regulation. Anastasia is currently working on the political economy of financial innovation, systemic risk and wealth management. Between 2015 and 2016, Anastasia served as member of the Economic Advisory Panel to the Shadow Chancellor of the UK. In 2017-2018 she served an adviser to the UK's Commission on Economic Justice. Since July 2017, she had been an adviser to the Anti-Corruption Task Team of the OECD.