Giulio Piumelli

Giulio Piumelli is a Ph.D. candidate in Global History and Governance at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale (Naples, Italy) and the Center for History at Sciences Po (Paris, France) under the supervision of Professor Mario Del Pero. His doctoral research investigates the origins and implementation of the Washington Consensus (1979-1995). The term refers to a set of macroeconomic policies promoted by the U.S. Treasury Department, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Bank (all based in Washington, D.C.) in the 1980s and 1990s to stabilize countries facing balance-of-payments crises. His research argues that the Washington Consensus serves as a lens to examine the systemic transformations of the 1980s and early 1990s, including the end of the Cold War, the so-called neoliberal turn, the U.S. role in shaping the global economic and political order, and the power dynamics between creditor and debtor nations. This research builds on his undergraduate thesis, which analyzed the role of the Washington Consensus in shaping the U.S. unipolar moment in the 1990s. At Sciences Po, Giulio also works as a teaching assistant for a graduate course on the history of globalization and teaches methodology classes for an undergraduate course on 20th - and 21st -century history. Before joining the Research School, Giulio earned a master’s degree in European and International Studies from the University of Trento, writing his thesis on Jimmy Carter’s human rights policy toward Poland based on recently declassified material from the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library.