Matt Barlow is a Research Fellow at IBEI and a Lecturer in International Political Economy at the University of Glasgow, UK. His research interests are in the political economy of taxation, political economy of development and the global governance of development. His research is situated in two regions of the global South: Latin America and Africa, and explores themes of tax ideologies, sociology of the developing state, political economy of gender and regionalism. He has twice been a visiting researcher at the Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Previously, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of International Development at King’s College London. Before this he was an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of York where he was awarded his PhD. During this time, he also worked as a research associate in the Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre at the University of York where he was part of a team working with academic and civil society partners across a number of funded projects: GCRF-RCUK funded Thanzi la Onse (Health for All), GCRF funded Gender and Health Systems After Covid-19: The Role of Policy and the GCRF funded The natural resources economy in South America: Extraction, Sustainability and Citizenship.