Federico Pachetti is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at Corvinus University of Budapest, Research Fellow at Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies (CIAS), and Research Fellow with the Geopolitical Frontiers Project, Future Potentials Observatory. Federico received his PhD in History from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and his Master in History of International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Before joining CIAS in January 2022 as a Junior Postdoctoral fellow, he taught at LSE and NYU Shanghai. In fall 2024, Federico held a visiting fellowship at The Australian Center on China in the World (CIW), Australian National University (ANU).

Federico is currently working on a book manuscript that explores China's integration into the dynamics of globalization during the 1980s and how this process was assisted by the United States, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), as well as by several American NGOs. Federico's publications have appeared in the Journal of Global History and in the edited volume China, Hong Kong, and the Long 1970s: Global Perspectives, edited by Priscilla Roberts and Odd Arne Westad.  

Federico is broadly interested in the history of International Political Economy during the final part of the 20th century, especially in the economic changes brought about by the World Bank and the IMF to former socialist countries, as well as in the economic changes taking place in Global North and the Global South after the end of the Bretton Woods System. Connected to these interests, in September 2024 he organized, together with Jonas Kreienbaum and Eva-Maria Muschik, a workshop at Corvinus University of Budapest entitled The Bretton Woods Twins and Structural Adjustment Programs in the Era of Neoliberal Globalization. 

Dr. Federico Pachetti will be a visiting researcher at ICSCC from February to July, 2025.