Dr Macartney is Associate Professor in Political Economy at the University of Birmingham. He was previously a Hallsworth Fellow at the University of Manchester, and an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Nottingham. His research focuses on the politics of banking and financial markets and he is the author of two books and numerous journal articles on these topics. His work has been published in internationally-renowned journals such as Review of International Political Economy, West European Politics, and Review of International Studies.