Annina Kaltenbrunner is Lecturer in the Economics of Globalisation and the International Economy at Leeds University Business School. Her areas of research are development economics, international finance, monetary economics, international political economy, heterodox economics and methodology. She has published on Post Keynesian theory, emerging market currency internationalisation, financial integration, external vulnerability, and the Euro Area Crisis. She is currently working on financialisation and capital flows in emerging economies. Annina has collaborated on work for the United Nations University (UNU) and the European FP7 Project AUGUR. She is currently contributing to several projects including the European FP7 FESSUD, a 2-year project on Finance and Inequality with the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), and commissioned work on currency internationalisation by the Brazilian central bank. She is an active member of several academic organisations, including the International Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy (IIPPE) and the Post Keynesian Study Group (PKSG). She is member of the Women’s committee of the Royal Economic Society.