Before joining LSE, Swati completed a PhD in Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a Fellow at the Department of Economics in Princeton University. Her research interests are international economics, globalisation and industrial policy. Her work has been published in top economic journals including The American Economic Review. She is Associate Editor of the Journal of International Economics, and was awarded the FIW Young Economist Award and the Chair Jacquemin Award by the European Trade Study Group for her work on firms and globalisation. Swati is a member of the Globalization group at the Centre for Economic Performance, and has made regular contributions to work on Brexit.