Dr Aleksandra Peeroo

Aleksandra is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Hertfordshire. Prior to joining the Business School in 2019, she has taught at SOAS University of London, King's College London, the University of Mauritius, and the Sorbonne in Paris.

She holds a PhD in Economics from the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, where she has also completed a Research Master's in Public Decisions, Organisations, and Institutions. In addition, she completed a Master's degree in Economics and Business Administration from the Ruhr-University in Bochum.

Aleksandra’s research focusses on the political economy of water and green transitions, with an emphasis on institutional issues. Her research on water began with her PhD where she examined water governance in Germany, France, and the UK. After moving to Mauritius, she studied institutional obstacles to water sector reform in developing countries. In a grant-financed project, she analysed the sustainability of the Mauritian water sector, identifying institutional failings and disseminating the results to decision-makers. More recent work explores the colonial legacy of water resource allocations and their impact on capital accumulation, integrating concepts of accumulation by dispossession and State-capital symbiosis. She has recently published her research on the potential for decolonising water resource allocations in small island developing states with her colleague Lianne Oosterbaan.

Currently, she is involved in an interdisciplinary research project on green hydrogen exports from Morocco to the UK with Siobhan Bygate (PIR, LMS) and Darren Crook (Geography, LMS). She is also working with Christina Wolf (Economics) on green discontent in Germany.

Prior to joining UH, Aleksandra was awarded the Departmental Teaching Prize for Outstanding Teaching by SOAS, University of London. She is passionate about making the classroom an interactive, inclusive, and collaborative community.

She has been teaching a vast array of subjects, many of them with a focus on pluralist approaches: Global Political Economy, Economy and Society, Development Economics, Organisation Theory, Industrial Organisation, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Public Policy, Infrastructure Economics, Statistics.

She has also a completed PhD supervision (together with Prof Hulya Dagdeviren and Dr Bruno Bonizzi): Hannah Hasenberger "Local government financialisation in Europe: Definitions, patterns and drivers".