Andreas Wiedemann is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he studies comparative and international political economy with a focus on advanced democracies. He holds an M.Sc. in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics (LSE) and a B.A. in Governance and Public Policy from the University of Passau, Germany, and has previously worked for the Boston Consulting Group and the European Commission’s DG ECFIN.

Andreas’ main research interests include the political economy of financial markets and economic crises, international macroeconomics, and distributional conflicts under capitalism.