Karen P. Y. Lai

Short Biography

Karen Lai is a Killam postdoctoral fellow at the Department Geography, University of British Columbia. Her research interests are in geographies of money and finance, global cities, markets, neoliberalism, and political economy. Her research articles has appeared in Environment & Planning A and Geoforum. Her current work examines the circulation and development of market ideas and structures in the financial centres of Shanghai and Hong Kong, focusing on networks of regulatory cooperation and business linkages. She received her Bachelor and Master degrees from the National University of Singapore and PhD from the University of Nottingham.