Professor Mia Gray is an economic geographer at Cambridge University and a fellow of Girton College. Her current research explores the politics and the distributional effects of austerity. She examines the intertwining of the economic, social and political effects on the local decisions around austerity and the shaping of the local state. Her work in austerity has led her to a research interest in debt. She has an edited collection on Debt and Austerity, Debt and Austerity Implications of the Financial Crisis. The book explores the ways in which debt became interwoven with the international finance system, the nation state, local governments, legal and welfare systems, households, and the personal and intimate lives of people on low incomes. A second book, Viral Debt, on post-pandemic debt in low-income populations will be out in 2025. She is also one of the editors of the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society.