I hold a double Ph.D. in Political and Social Science with specialization in History of Economic Thought from University of Bologna (cum laude) and in History & Civilizations from Paris City University.

I was a fellow at the Cold War Archives Research (CWAR) Institute at the Wilson Center in 2023/2024. In Fall 2023, I was a visiting fellow at the Department of History at Harvard University.

My doctoral dissertation titled Development Brokers: The World Bank, Economic Expertise and the Reinvention of Global Economic Governance in the 1960s offers a revisionist analysis of the political economy of the World Bank in the 1960s, during the so-called Development Decade (see more in Research).

My research interests sit at the confluence of economic history, history of economic thought, history of international development, and global history of the 20th century. I am particularly interested in the design and functioning of international economic governance since World War I and its institutional guardians like the League of Nations, the World Bank, the IMF, the World Trade Organization, and the system of United Nations agencies.

I have accessed archives in the United States, France, and the United Kingdom, participated in work and research stays in Italy, France, Estonia, Japan, and the United States, and presented my work at conferences and workshops in Europe, North America, and Latin America (see Presentations).

You can contact me at mirektobias.hosman2 [at] unibo.it.

Mirek Tobias Hosman, Mirek Tobiáš Hošman