Kalina Manova is an American and Bulgarian professor of economics and deputy head of department at University College London.
[3] Manova obtained her bachelor, master and PhD in economics at Harvard University.
Her most cited paper in the Review of Economic studies shows how financial market imperfections restricts international trade.
Part of her research also looks at global value chains and firm production networks.
She has won a 1.4 million euro ERC grant to look at the fragmentation of production across firms and countries.