Philippe Legrain is a British political economist and writer, specializing in global and European economic issues such as globalisation, migration, the post-crisis world, and the euro. He is the Founder of the Open Political Economy Network (OPEN) and has served as a Senior Visiting Fellow at the European Institute of The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) since 2014. Born in 1973, Legrain considers himself British with a cosmopolitan outlook.