Dr Rex A McKenzie

About

I was trained at the New School for Social Research in New York USA. My 2006 Ph.D. thesis was entitled Three Essays in the Political Economy of the English Speaking Caribbean. I have held Lecturer, Assistant Professor and Senior Researcher posts in Economics at the University of Technology, Kingston, Jamaica, Purchase College, SUNY, New York, USA, and the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Before academia, I was a professional Foreign Exchange Dealer for sixteen years and this professional experience connects to my research activities in the area of Global Political Economy. 

I am a 2021-2022 Trust for London (TFL) grantee and lead the Wealth Chains Project (WCP). The WCP is a collaboration of social science researchers from different universities aimed at gaining a greater understanding of the relationship between property investment coming from offshore tax havens and socio-economic inequality in London.

Academic responsibilities

Senior Lecturer in Economics

Teaching and learning

Research

Professional practice, knowledge exchange and impact