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Dr Filipa Figueira
Senior Teaching Fellow
SSEES
UCL SLASH
- Joined UCL
- 8th Sep 2014
Research summary
Filipa Figueira’s main areas of research are the European Union and Political Economy. In relation to the European Union, particular interests include "Brexit" and its political, institutional and economic implications; the role and influence of Central and Eastern European Member States in the EU; Subsidiarity (including identifying the optimal task allocation between EU and national levels, as well as federalism); the EU budget; the Eurozone. Her work on Political Economy explores innovative ways in which the disciplines of Economics and Political Science can be combined.
Teaching summary
SESS3110: The Crisis of 1989 and the New Global Revolution
SESS1202 Understanding Society: Introduction to Social Theory
SEESGS11 Political Economy of International Business
Education
- Universiteit Utrecht
- Doctorate, Doctor of Philosophy | 2012
- The College of Europe
- Other higher degree, Master of Arts | 2002
- London School of Economics and Political Science
- First Degree, Bachelor of Science | 2001
Biography
Filipa Figueira is a Teaching Fellow at UCL - School of Slavonic & East European Studies. Her interests include political economy, the European Union, and European economics.
She has a degree in Economics from the London School of Economics (LSE), a Masters in European Economic Studies from the College of Europe, and a PhD in Economics from Utrecht University.
Previously, Filipa Figueira was a researcher at the Brussels based think-tank Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), and a lecturer at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR). She also worked as an independent researcher for research centres and the EU institutions, and as a private tutor in advanced economics. Additional past professional experiences include working at the EU affairs consultancy GPlus Europe, the European Policy Centre (EPC) and the Council of the EU.
She is very experienced in European research consultancy projects, as well as high-quality private tuition in Economics and Politics. Filipa Figueira is a member of the SSEES-based FRINGE and CCSEE research centres, and she has regular interventions in the media (TV, radio and print). She is fluent in English, French and Portuguese (written and spoken). She also speaks Spanish (advanced), Dutch and Italian (intermediate), German and Czech (beginner).
Filipa regularly writes for the SSEES Research Blog and the UCL European Institute.
Filipa Figueira is on Twitter: @filipafigueira
