Michael Franczak is a Research Fellow in the Division of Peace, Climate, and Sustainable Development at IPI, where he leads work on climate and development finance and reform of the international financial architecture. He is a historian of international economic relations and an expert on global climate change policy and negotiations. Michael also holds appointments as a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University.

Before coming to IPI, Michael was a postdoctoral fellow at Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania and at Yale University’s International Security Studies, where he taught in the History Department. His book, Global Inequality and American Foreign Policy in the 1970s (Cornell University Press, 2022), shows how developing countries’ demand for a New International Economic Order in the United Nations reshaped American and global politics for years to come. Michael has also worked as a consultant for the United Nations Climate Secretariat’s Nairobi Work Programme and served as an advisor on loss and damage finance for the Republic of Maldives. He received his PhD in history from Boston College in 2018.