Leila Simona Talani is a professor of International Political Economy at king's College London. She was appointed as Jean Monnet Chair of European Political Economy in the department of European and International Studies at King’s College London in 2012. She was previously at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and in the department of European studies of the University of Bath since the year 2001. From November 2000 until September 2001 she held the position of Associate Expert for the United Nations Regional Office for Drug control and Crime Prevention based in Cairo working on illegal migration from the Middle East and Northern Africa to EU countries. In the academic year 1999-2000 she taught "The political Economy of European Integration" at the European Institute of the London School of Economics where she had previously held a research and teaching fellowship for the academic year 1998-1999. Leila Simona Talani got her PhD with distinction at the European University Institute of Florence in 1998. She is the author of: The Arab Spring in the Global Political Economy(Palgrave, Forthcoming),Dirty Cities: towards a political economy of shadow dynamics in global cities (Palgrave, 2013), European Political Economy(Ashgate: 2013),Globalization, Migration and the future of Europe (Routledge 2011), From Egypt to Europe (I.B.Tauris, 2010) amongst other publications..
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