Kai Koddenbrock is a political economist (Dr. phil. University of Bremen, Habilitation Goethe-University Frankfurt). He works on colonial and contemporary finance in the field of postcolonial International Political Economy. He has published a monograph on The practice of humanitarian intervention in Democratic Republic of Congo and recently co-edited volumes on Monetary and Economic Sovereignty in 21^st century Africa (with Maha Ben Gahda, Fadhel Kaboub, Ines Mahmoud and Ndongo Samba Sylla) as well as Capital Claims: The power of finance in the 21^st century (forthcoming with Benjamin Braun)