Cecilia Testa is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Nottingham, where she directs the Nottingham Interdisciplinary Centre for Economic and Political Research (NICEP). Her research focuses on political economy and has been published in journals such as the Journal of the European Economic Association, the Journal of Political Economy and the Journal of Politics. Cecilia has been a Visiting Scholar at the Australian National University, Havard, Essex and MIT. She earned her Ph.D. from LSE.