Carla Coburger is trained in economics and a research associate at the junior research group on ‘Economic and Monetary Sovereignty in West Africa’. She studied International economics in Tübingen, Germany (BSc) and Economics (MSc) at SOAS, London and worked at Rebuilding Macroeconomics at NIESR, London. Her research is mainly concerned with monetary and financial systems and their impact on domestic economic development, industrialization and capability accumulation. She is passionate about philosophy of economics, particularly the performativity of data collection, and complexity economics.