Dr Pallavi Padma-Uday is a scholar of capitalism and its institutions. Her work spans explorations in economic and financial history, political economy, and business and management. Her research has examined how social structures shape firms, finance, and market institutions in South Asia. She is particularly interested in long-run institutional change and the historical and contemporary dynamics of capitalism.

Alongside academic research, she has written extensively for public audiences on business, finance, and political economy, alongside earlier leadership stints in multinational digital and financial media groups, where she led audience engagement teams and strategy. She is also a strategy consultant to London-based digital startup The Bomway. These make her among the economic historians with direct professional experience of the financial and corporate world that their research examines.

She is a professional member of the Irish Writers Centre, an awardee of the Evolution Programme (2025–26), and was shortlisted for the Arts Council Ireland Literature Bursary Award in 2024 and 2026. Read her literary works at the National Library of Ireland.

She moves between Dublin-Belfast-London, Épernay and New Delhi.

contact: p.singh24@alumni.lse.ac.uk