Before coming to King’s, Dr Downey was a junior research scholar at St John’s College, Cambridge where she worked on democratic theory and macroeconomic policymaking. She is the author of Our Money: Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters (PUP 2024). Dr Downey holds B.A.s in Mathematics and Economics from UNC Chapel Hill, an MSc in Economics & Philosophy from the LSE, and a PhD in Government from Harvard University. She has written on topics including the administrative state, monetary policy, macrofinance and the green transition, and the meaning of stability in politics and economics.

Office hours

Friday: 13.30 - 15.30

Research interests

• Democratic theory
• Political theory of the administrative state
• Political theory of macroeconomic policy
• Monetary policy
• Central banks 

Teaching

Introduction to Political and Economic Philosophy