Ben Clift is Professor of Political Economy, Deputy Head, and Director of Research in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. His research interests lie at the interface of comparative and international political economy. He recently held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for a project entitled ‘The OBR and the Politics of UK Growth amidst Brexit, Uncertainty and Austerity’. His books include The Office for Budget Responsibility and the Politics of Technocratic Economic Governance (OUP 2023), The IMF and the Politics of Austerity in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis (OUP 2018) Comparative Political Economy: States, Markets and Global Capitalism (Palgrave 2014; 2nd Edition Red Globe Press / Bloomsbury 2021). He is co-editor of Economic Patriotism: Political Intervention in Open Markets (Routledge 2012). He has published widely on topics including French and comparative capitalisms, the IMF, the politics of economic ideas and expertise, the political economy of economic patriotism, and IPE’s disciplinary politics in many leading journals including The British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Common Market Studies, The Journal of European Public Policy, The Review of International Political Economy, New Political Economy, Party Politics, Comparative European Politics, Political Studies, Parliamentary Affairs, Government and Opposition and British Journal of Politics and International Relations.