Galina Hale (she, her, hers)
Faculty Director, Professor of Economics and Coastal Science and Policy, Co-Director of Center for Analytical Finance (CAFIN)
As an economist with decades of expertise in international finance and service in public policy, Galina brings to the Institute a global view of the actions that can be taken at local, national, and global levels to make progress towards a more just and sustainable future for people and for the planet. As a Faculty Director at the Institute, Galina collaborates with faculty in the Division of Social Sciences in applying for outside funding, oversees the Institute’s programs, and serves as a Principal Investigator on the Institute’s external grants. She is also responsible for the Institute’s strategic direction and external visibility.
Galina Hale is a Professor of Economics and Coastal Science and Policy, Faculty Director of the Institute for Social Transformation, and Co-Director of the Center for Analytical Finance at UC Santa Cruz. She is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and a Director of Central Bank Research Association’s International Finance and Macroeconomics program. Previously, she served as a Research Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and as an assistant professor of economics at Yale University.
Galina’s 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. She has also worked extensively on international capital flows and financial crises, and published in leading economics and finance peer-reviewed journals. She serves on the editorial boards of a number of Economics journals. Galina regularly presents her work at scholarly and policy meetings worldwide. She co-authored a Supreme Court Brief and a California Congressional Testimony. She is a regular contributor to VoxEU and Econofact.
