Henning Schmidtke

Biography

Henning Schmidtke is a research fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA). He has held research positions at the University of Bremen, University of St. Gallen, TU Dresden, and the Technical University of Munich. His research interests include the formation, design, and behavior of international organizations and the contentious politics around them.

At the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Schmidtke will focus on international institutions created in 1944 by the Bretton Woods Conference. Specifically, his project will explore how the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank expanded their tasks, scope, and capabilities well beyond their formal mandates, whereas the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT/WTO) experienced a trajectory of inertia and decline.

This information is accurate for the time period that the visiting scholar is affiliated with CES.

Affiliations

• Research Fellow, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
• John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 2022-2023, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
• Visiting Scholar 2022-2023, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University