Roxana is a Professor of Policy and Quantitative Methods at Queen Mary University of London, in the School of Business and Management.
Roxana's research analyses how to overcome the most significant barriers to economic development. She is particularly interested in three of these barriers:
-Violent conflict
-The persistent effects of inequalities in wealth
-Poor economic governance
Roxana holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge (King’s College).

Roxana has been at Queen Mary University of London since 2015. She previously taught and held research positions at the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford and the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.