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Hridesh Gajurel is an ARC Laureate Research Fellow at the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at ANU. He was previously a Lecturer in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Queensland. He has also worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher and Research Manager. He is a political economist who specialises in comparative capitalism, corporate governance, financialisation, and new institutional theory.

His current research interests include the role of ideas in shaping corporate governance laws and practices, pathways to a sustainable and wellbeing-centred economy, the impact of financialisation on planetary health equity, and the relationship between institutional memory and policy innovation.

Currently, Hridesh is investigating the institutional, ideational, and political drivers of the consumptogenic system that is behind both climate change and worsening health inequities.

Research Interests

  • Corporate short-termism and financialisation
  • Comparative corporate governance
  • Varieties of capitalism
  • Structural drivers of the consumptogenic system
  • Pathways to a wellbeing economy
  • Conditions for ideational change
  • Historical institutionalism
  • Constructivist institutionalism

Qualifications

PhD in Political Economy, The University of Queensland, Australia

Master of Research, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Master of Commerce (Advanced), Griffith University, Australia

Bachelor of Arts (Liberal Arts), Knox College, USA

Education/Academic qualification

Political Economy, PhD, University of Queensland

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