With regards to structural features of underdevelopment, she is interested in unpacking the debates about dependency theory, ultimately to investigate its usefulness in order to understand processes of economic and human development. In 2017 she co-edited the volume Dialogues on Development: Dependency which explores different perspectives on the relevance of dependency theory. She has also done work that investigates the extent to which a classical political economy approach to international trade can help explain persistent trade deficits in an African context.

Finally, she assesses the economic policies of international organizations in a variety of ways, for example in this piece for Policy in Focus (2017) on electronic payments (with Paulo dos Santos) and in her investigation on the usefulness of global development goals (with Sanjay Reddy).

Ingrid holds a PhD in Economics from the New School for Social Research and BA and MSc degrees in Development Studies from the University of Oslo and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), respectively. She has previously taught Development Economics courses at The New School and John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. She is also affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre at the University of York.