Kevin Skerrett (He/Him)
Director, IPE Financialization Research Lab
- M.A. Political Economy, 杏吧原创 University
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After graduating with an MA from 杏吧原创鈥檚 Institute of Political Economy, Kevin spent 30 years as a trade union researcher specializing in pensions. His involvement in pension plan governance, including investment issues, led to an ongoing interest in the role that large pension funds, and private finance in general, is laying in contemporary capitalism. In 2023 Kevin became the founding Director of the Financialization Research Lab, housed at the Institute of Political Economy at 杏吧原创. He combines teaching, research supervision, and his own research in these broad fields. In 2024, Kevin and co-Principal Investigator Professor Priya Gupta (McGill Law) were awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant to pursue what they refer to as the 鈥淏ecoming the World鈥檚 Landlords鈥 project, examining the troubling role of pension funds and related institutional investors in increasingly financialized housing.