Biography
Chair in History of European Cooperation and Integration, twentieth century to the present Co-director, Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre
Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol is a historian of international economic relations, focusing on business and financial history, the sociology of elites, and European cooperation and integration. He is particularly interested in the use of digital methods in historical research.
Before joining the History Department he was Professor of International Economic History at the University of Glasgow. He taught at the London School of Economics, the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the University of Economics in Prague and the University of Tokyo, inter alia. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Columbia University. Since 2015, he is Non Resident Fellow at the Brussels-based economics think tank Bruegel.
His work focuses on the development of cooperation across borders, the functioning of financial structures, social ties and the development, or failure to develop, new institutional frameworks. His work on the making of the euro aims to add to our understanding of Economic and Monetary Union’s social and conceptual construction by exploring the paths not taken, the policymakers’ origins and networks as well as the policy ideas shelved in the past but recycled later. His research contributes to question the multiple meanings of European cooperation and integration across time and sheds light on our current predicament.
From 2017 to 2023, he directed the ERC-funded Project “The Making of a Lopsided Union: Economic Integration in the European Economic Community, 1957-1992 (EURECON)." From 2016 to 2019 he was one of the PIs in the project The Uses of the Past in International Economic Relations (UPIER), funded by a grant from the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) consortium.