Marnie Ginis

Marnie Ginis is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Asian Institute within the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto. Dr. Ginis specializes in international and comparative political economy, specifically firm-state relations in developing countries.

Her research focuses on the politics of production complexity. She builds and tests theories of how the products firms make and the production technology they use affect their political behavior and relationship with states. In her book project, she builds a theory of how firms use production complexity to protect their assets from appropriation by states. She employs mixed-methods, including interviews and quantitative analysis.

Dr. Ginis received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University in 2025. She also holds an M.Phil. and M.A. in Political Science from Columbia University, as well as a B.A. in both Economics and Political Science from the University of Michigan.