Lena Rethel is Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of Politics and International Studies, and the Director of the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. Her current research examines the growth of transnational Islamic economic flows and their governance and is funded by a Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust. She has widely published on Islamic Finance and Global Governance. Her books include The Political Economy of Financial Development in Malaysia (Routledge), The Everyday Political Economy of Southeast Asia (co-edited with Juanita Elias, Cambridge University Press), Global Governance in Crisis (co-edited with Andre Broome and Liam Clegg) and The Problem with Banks (co-authored with Timothy J. Sinclair). In 2016-17, Lena was a Fung Global Fellow at Princeton University and in 2017-18 a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. Lena currently serves as the lead editor of the Review of International Political Economy and is a founding co-editor of I-PEEL.org: The International Political Economy of Everyday Life.