Duncan Wigan
Professor mso
Primary research areas
Global Wealth Chains
Transnational Activism
International Taxation
I am interested in how changing forms of capital in the international political economy emerge, are negotiated and governed in the contexts of innovations in finance and multinational corporate organization.
Duncan Wigan is Professor MSO in International Political Economy and a member of the Organizations, Markets and Governance research group at Copenhagen Business School (CBS). He currently leads the MSc in International Business and Politics at CBS. Until 2024 he led the Master of Social Sciences in Public Management and Social Development at the Sino Danish Centre for Education and Research, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has contributed to three European research consortiums, co-authoring and leading at CBS the European Commission Horizon 2020 Framework Program project, ‘COFFERS - Combatting Fiscal Fraud and Empowering Regulators’. Between 2024 and 2025 he led a Global innovation Network Programme grant, ‘Entanglements between value and wealth in the lithium-ion battery chain’ under the Ministry of Higher Education and Science. Currently, he contributes to the Danmarks Frie Froskningsfond project, ‘Time Mirror: Accounting for the Green Transition’ and is drafting ‘Global Tax Battles. The Fight to Govern Corporate and Elite Wealth’ (forthcoming Oxford University Press). His research seeks to unpack how macro level structures in the international political economy are created, governed and changed with the intent to respond to the question of, ‘who gets what, where and how’ in the international political economy.