Leonard Seabrooke

Leonard Seabrooke is a Copenhagen Business School Professor in International Political Economy and Economic sociology in the Copenhagen Business School.[1] Len Seabrooke's research primarily concerns the role of professionals and experts in treating social and economic problems, the politics of access to credit, tax, and property within economies, and the role of 'Global Wealth Chains' in the international political economy. He has also worked on the social sources of how states generate international financial capacity, how 'everyday politics' has influence in the world economy, how international organizations create policy scripts, and the connection between welfare systems, housing, fertility, and international finance. Seabrooke has published articles in highly ranked international peer review journals in the fields of International Political Economy and Economic and Organizational Sociology, including American Sociological Review, Governance, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of European Public Policy, Organization, Public Administration, Review of International Political Economy, and many others. Seabrooke was also the Director of Studies of the Warwick Commission on International Financial Reform,[2] which brought together economists, political scientists, and lawyers from both the scholarly and policy worlds to discuss financial reform and re-regulation.

Leonard Seabrooke
Born	1974 Elizabeth, South Australia
Scientific career
Fields	International Political Economy Economic Sociology
Institutions	Copenhagen Business School

Seabrooke has led a number of research projects funded by the European Commission, think tanks, and foundations. These include the 'Professions in International Political Economies' project (2011-2014) funded by the European Research Council and the 'European Legitimacy in Governing through Hard Times' project (2015-2018 ENLIGHTEN) from the European Commission Horizon 2020 programme. Seabrooke is currently working on the 'Corporate Arbitrage' project from the European Research Council and the 'Combatting Fiscal Fraud and Empowering Regulators' project from the EC (2016-2019 COFFERS). He is also co-leading, with Eleni Tsingou, a project on 'Expert Niches' funded by the VELUX Foundation.

Publications

• Global Wealth Chains (edited with Duncan Wigan, Oxford University Press, 2020)
• Professional Networks in Transnational Governance (edited with Lasse Folke Henriksen, Cambridge University Press, 2017)
• Sources of National Institutional Competitiveness (edited with Susana Borrás, Oxford University Press, 2015)
• Seeing Like an International Organization (edited with André Broome, Routledge, 2014)
• The Politics of Housing Booms and Busts (edited with Herman Schwartz, Palgrave, 2009)
• Everyday Politics of the World Economy(edited with John M. Hobson, Cambridge University Press, 2007)
• The Social Sources of Financial Power (Cornell University Press, 2006)
• Global Standards of Market Civilization (edited with Brett Bowden, Routledge, 2006)
• US Power in International Finance (Palgrave, 2001)

Music

Len Seabrooke plays bass guitar and sings in Me After You with Federico Festino. Their album, Foughts, was produced by Andy Miller, of Mogwai fame, and released with Custom Made Music in 2013. Seabrooke plays drums, bass, and bouzouki in Boogles and Junk Boat, as well as with South African musician Jim Neversink, and Norwegian singer Håkon Lervåg.

References

1. "Leonard Seabrooke", DCopenhagen Business School, 26 November 2019
2. Warwick Commission on International Financial Reform Archived 2011-06-05 at the Wayback Machine