Filipa Figueira is a Teaching Fellow at UCL - School of Slavonic & East European Studies. Her interests include political economy, the European Union, and European economics. 

She has a degree in Economics from the London School of Economics (LSE), a Masters in European Economic Studies from the College of Europe, and a PhD in Economics from Utrecht University.

Previously, Filipa Figueira was a researcher at the Brussels based think-tank Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), and a lecturer at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR). She also worked as an independent researcher for research centres and the EU institutions, and as a private tutor in advanced economics. Additional past professional experiences include working at the EU affairs consultancy GPlus Europe, the European Policy Centre (EPC) and the Council of the EU. 

She is very experienced in European research consultancy projects, as well as high-quality private tuition in Economics and Politics. Filipa Figueira is a member of the SSEES-based FRINGE and CCSEE research centres, and she has regular interventions in the media (TV, radio and print). She is fluent in English, French and Portuguese (written and spoken). She also speaks Spanish (advanced), Dutch and Italian (intermediate), German and Czech (beginner).

Filipa regularly writes for the SSEES Research Blog and the UCL European Institute.

Filipa Figueira is on Twitter: @filipafigueira