Hridesh Gajurel is an ARC Laureate Research Fellow at the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at ANU. He was previously a Lecturer in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Queensland. He has also worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher and Research Manager. He is a political economist who specialises in comparative capitalism, corporate governance, financialisation, and new institutional theory.

His current research interests include the role of ideas in shaping corporate governance laws and practices, pathways to a sustainable and wellbeing-centred economy, the impact of financialisation on planetary health equity, and the relationship between institutional memory and policy innovation.

Currently, Hridesh is investigating the institutional, ideational, and political drivers of the consumptogenic system that is behind both climate change and worsening health inequities.