Will Bartlett is Associate Member at the Research Unit on South Eastern Europe (LSEE), where was previously Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow in the Political Economy of South East Europe. He is also an Atlantic Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute of the LSE, and Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Economic Annals at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Belgrade.
Will Bartlett's research interests are in the political economy of economic and social development in South East Europe. His current research covers the themes of state capture and inequality in South East Europe. He has published articles in journals such as European Journal of Social Security, International Journal of Industrial Organisation, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Post-Communist Economies, and Small Business Economics. His books include Croatia: between Europe and the Balkans (Routledge 2003), and Europe's Troubled Region: Economic Development, Institutional Reform and Social Welfare in the Western Balkans (Routledge 2008). He is currently completing a book on inequalities and diverging welfare state trajectories in the successor states of Yugoslavia for Palgrave Macmillan publishers and a Research Handbook on state capture for Edward Elgar publishers.