Michael Franczak

Dr. Michael Franczak is a Senior Researcher at UNU-CPR and an expert on international economic cooperation and development. Through UNU-CPR’s Global Governance Innovation project, he works with UN entities and Member States to develop practical new approaches to global challenges including sovereign debt, critical minerals, and financing international cooperation. 

He is also a Senior Fellow at Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania. 

Before coming to UNU-CPR, Dr. Franczak worked at the International Peace Institute supporting small-island states in UN climate negotiations. He has served as an advisor to the Republic of Maldives on loss and damage finance and consulted for the UNFCCC’s Nairobi Work Programme. 

Trained as a historian, Dr. Franczak completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University and has taught international history at Yale, Columbia, and Boston College. He is the author of Global Inequality and American Foreign Policy in the 1970s (Cornell University Press, 2022).