LEILA SIMONA TALANIis AssociateProfessor (Reader) in International and European Political Economy at King's College London, UK. She was previously a Lecturer in European Politics at the University of Bath, UK, and a Research Fellow and then Lecturer at the European Institute of the London School of Economics, UK. In 2001 she spent a year as Associate Expert on migration issues at the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention in Cairo. Her research interests focus on globalization and the future of the City of London as well as the political economy of migration flows from southern Mediterranean countries to the EU. She is the author of Europe in Crisis, The Global Crash, From Egypt to Europe, The future of EMU, Between Growth and Stability, European Political Economy and Betting for and against EMU.