Galina Hale (she, her, hers)

Associate Faculty Director

Galina Hale is Associate Director of the Institute for Social Transformation. She is a Professor of Economics and Coastal Science and Policy at UC Santa Cruz.  

Galina’s current research interests focus on attracting mainstream finance to climate solutions, the sustainability of the global food system, and international financial stability, especially with respect to climate risks. Galina previously worked extensively on international capital flows and financial stability. 

Galina has published over 60 articles, book chapters, and research reports.  She co-wrote with Cheryl Long a monograph “Foreign Direct Investment in China: Winners and Losers” and co-edited an ebook “The Making of the European Monetary Union: 30 years since the ERM crisis.” Galina regularly presents her work at scholarly and policy meetings worldwide and her research is regularly covered in mainstream media. She serves as a co-editor-in-chief of the Review of the World Economies, associate editor of the Journal of International Economics, and a member of the editorial board of the IMF Economic Review and Pacific Economic Review.  Galina is a director of the CEBRA’s IFM program and a co-director of the UCSC Center for Analytical Finance (CAFIN).  She is a pro-bono Chief Research Officer at Food System Innovations non-profit organization.

Galina began to study economics in Russia, first in the Moscow State University economics department and then at the New Economic School’s master’s program.  When in Russia, she briefly worked as a consultant for the Russian Ministry of Finance and as a chief editor for a weekly newsletter of the Russian Central Bank’s news agency. She received her Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley, under the supervision of Barry Eichengreen.  She served as a Research Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and as an assistant professor of economics at Yale University. She also taught a number of courses as a visiting faculty at Stanford and UC Berkeley. 

Contact info: gbhale@ucsc.edu