About
Matthew Heneghan is a doctoral researcher in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). His research focuses on the political economy of labour migration, remittances and development in Central Asia. For his doctoral project, he is investigating how the consolidation of the global ‘remittances-to-development’ agenda and broader financialization regimes in labour-exporting states altered the course of national developmental trajectories. He is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced International Studies and an Associate Research Fellow at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek. He previously held researcher positions with LSE IDEAS and Tufts University. He teaches on courses in Political Economy and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh, Central European University and the University of World Economy and Diplomacy. Aside from this, he has consulted for a range of international development organisations on projects relating to migration, public policy and risk management. He is a graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science, the University of Edinburgh and Lomonosov Moscow State University.