Dr. Martin Sokol is Associate Professor of Economic Geography at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. His research focuses on central banks, monetary policy and financialisation, with special interest in the way central banks respond to crises, including the pandemic, the climate emergency and growing economic inequalities. He has a PhD in Economic Geography from Newcastle University, England, UK. He is one of the founding members of the Global Network on Financial Geography (FinGeo) and served as its first Secretary. Between 2016 and 2022, he led the European Research Council (ERC) project on new geographies of financialisation (Grant Agreement No 683197).
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