Sandra Sequeira is a Professor of Economics in the International Development Department, at the London School of Economics. Her research focuses on development economics (migration, state capacity), political economy and consumer behavior.
She is the recipient of a British Academy Fellowship (2025), a European Research Council Starting Grant (2019-2023), a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Economics (2022), an ESRC Knowledge Transfer Partnership Award (2017) and a WHO Raise Competition Award (2019). She is also a Trustee of Transform Schools, an editor for Economics Letters and the founder and co-director of the MSc in Economic Policy for International Development at the LSE.