Javier Ortega is Professor of Economics at Kingston University London since January 2019 and a Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics. He holds a PhD in Economics from EHESS (Paris) in 1996 and has been (among other positions) Associate Professor at the Toulouse School of Economics (1998-2008) and Senior Lecturer at City, University of London.

Javier has mostly conducted research in labour economics and (historical) political economy, but he has a wider general interest in political sciences, modern history, the history of ideas and sociolinguistics. Specifically, he has published papers on issues such as the impact of immigration on wages and employment, the language assimilation of immigrants, the organisation of education in multilingual countries, Gellner’s theory of nationalism or political correctness. He is currently doing research on colonization and nationalism.