Angela Wigger
Associate Professor of International Relations, Radboud University
Angela Wigger is an associate professor of global political economy at Radboud University in the Netherlands.
Her research focuses on the political economy of global capitalism, particularly capitalist crises and their political management amid growing geoeconomic rivalry. She studies how industrial and competition policy, subsidies, strategic trade measures, supply-chain security, and the financing of industrial policy are reshaping global capitalism. Her work also examines debt-led accumulation and rentier capitalism, competitiveness, and the political economy of the green transition.
Wigger is co-author, with Hubert Buch-Hansen, of “The Politics of European Competition Regulation: A Critical Political Economy Perspective.” She is an editor of Capital & Class and the Progress in Political Economy book series and serves on the editorial board of Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. She chairs the supervisory board of the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations and serves on the EuroMemo Group’s steering committee. She previously chaired the Critical Political Economy Research Network.
Before joining Radboud University, Wigger was an assistant professor and Ph.D. candidate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Wigger studied political science, economics, and sociology at the University of Bern. She earned a master’s in political science, cum laude, and a Ph.D. from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her doctoral dissertation examined the transformation of the European Union’s competition regime.
