Taylor Pearce is a PhD candidate and researcher withn the ReSpend-project at Freie Universität Berlin. She holds a B.A. in International Relations from Brown University and an MSc in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics (LSE). Taylor's research interests include the political economcy of industrial policy and strategic state finance. Before starting her PhD, she worked as an economist covering global and European macro topics with a focus on public investors' asset allocation strategies. Taylor has experience interning at the US Mission to the United Nations and the Deutscher Bundestag.