Dr Leah Downey is a political theorist, a junior research fellow at St. John’s College, Cambridge and a lecturer at Kings College London.

Her research looks at the relationship between democracy and macroeconomics. She has published research on the macroeconomics of the green transition, credit policy and macroeconomic stability and recently has focused on the interaction between legislatures and central banks. She is the author of Our Money: Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters.