Dr Aleksandra Peeroo is an institutional economist and Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. She holds a PhD in Economics from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and has previously lived and held academic positions in Mauritius. Through her research and publications, she explores how institutions and power relations shape the ways societies organise resources and respond to major transformations. A common thread across her work is the role of the state and the uneven societal consequences of institutional decision-making, examined in the contexts of water governance, green transitions, and AI data-centre infrastructure. Her research has received support from the British Academy and the Global Development Network. She also serves as a coordinator of Research Area C, Institutional Change, at the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy.