Biography

Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol is Professor of History of European Cooperation and Integration, twentieth century to the present. He is also Non Resident Fellow at Bruegel.

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, Keio University, the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the University of Economics in Prague and the University of Tokyo. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Columbia University.
His research focuses on 20th Century international and transnational history, with a particular interest on European cooperation and integration, business and financial history, the Cold War, and the use of digital methods in historical research.

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 the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) consortium. Since 2017, he directs the ERC Project “The Making of a Lopsided Union: Economic Integration in the European Economic Community, 1957-1992 (EURECON)".

Research projects, clusters and working groups

Ongoing

• Business History Working Group
• European Banks and Environmental Protection, 1970s-1990s
• Finance and society
• Open archives for social science research in Widening countries
• The Social Partners as shapers and makers of Social Europe: discovering foundations and futures

Completed

• The Making of a Lopsided Union: Economic Integration in the European Economic Community, 1957-1992

Supervisees

• Aude Foucoin
• Aurora Hamm
• Ferdinand Mowinckel
• Giorgos Charalambous
• Margaret Pulk

Fields of expertise

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