Michael Franczak is a Senior Researcher in Multilateralism and Global Governance at UNU-CPR and an expert on climate and development finance and reform of the international financial architecture.
Michael also holds appointments as a Visiting Fellow at Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania and as Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University.
From 2022-2024, Michael was a Research Fellow at the International Peace Institute, where he led research on multilateral climate finance and supported small-island states in UN Climate Change negotiations. Michael has also worked for the UNFCCC’s Nairobi Work Programme on adaptation and food security issues and served as an advisor to the Republic of Maldives on loss and damage finance.
Prior to IPI, Michael completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania (2020-2022) and at Yale University (2018-2020), where he also taught in the History department. Trained as a historian of international economic relations, he is the author of Global Inequality and American Foreign Policy in the 1970s (Cornell University Press, 2022) and many scholarly articles and book chapters. He holds a PhD in History from Boston College and a BA in History from the University of Michigan.