Brooke Harrington is Professor of Economic Sociology at Dartmouth College. Since 2007, she has examined inequality from the top end of the socio-economic spectrum, via the offshore financial system—a research program inaugurated by her training for two years to become a certified offshore wealth manager. Her most recent publication from this project, Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism (W.W. Norton; in German from Campus Verlag) was named a “Best Book” of 2024 by the Financial Times and one of the “Political Books That Help Us Make Sense of 2024” by the New Yorker. Her previous book on offshore finance as a social, political and economic phenomenon—Capital without Borders (Harvard University Press)—won the “Outstanding Book” award from the Inequality, Poverty and Mobility section of the American Sociological Association, and was translated into four languages. With a grant from the US National Science Foundation, she is currently leading a team using network science methods to test ideas from her ethnographic research with Big Data from the Panama, Paradise and Pandora Papers leaks. Based on this research, she advises the OECD, EU Parliament, and the tax agencies of countries across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific. She was previously on the faculties of Brown University and the Copenhagen Business School, and was awarded the PhD in Sociology by Harvard University.
