Sam Ashman is Associate Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Johannesburg, and a research associate at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. She has published extensively on the impact of (uneven) globalization, neo-liberalization, and financialization. The regional focus of her work is southern and South Africa. Work to date has particularly examined the role of finance and financialization in South Africa’s post-apartheid political economy and its role as a barrier to broader structural change and more broad based socio-economic development. She is currently working on political economy, industrial policy, and energy transitions in southern Africa, including but not limited to the emerging green hydrogen economy.