Rate My Professor Bernhard Reinsberg

Bernhard Reinsberg is Professor of International Political Economy and Development in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow, where he conducts research within the broader field of Social Sciences. He earned a PhD in Political Science from the University of Zurich, an MA in Comparative and International Studies from ETH Zurich, a BA in Political Science from Freie Universität Berlin, and a BA in Mathematics from the University of Hagen. Additionally, he serves as a Research Associate in Political Economy at the Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge. His research specializations encompass the political economy of international organisations, including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, with emphasis on drivers of their behavior, effectiveness of development interventions, and the impact of earmarked funding on contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals. Reinsberg leads projects such as Resourcing International Organisations, the Human Security Implications of IMF Programs, Organising for Development, and Subnational Development Cooperation.

Reinsberg has received major awards including the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, the 2022 Socio-Economic Review Best Paper Prize from the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, and the 2019 Gavin C Reid Prize for the Best Paper by a CBR Early Career Researcher. His key publications include the book IMF Lending: Partisanship, Punishment, and Protest (2023, Cambridge University Press, with M. Rodwan Abouharb); highly cited articles such as How Structural Adjustment Programs Affect Inequality: A Disaggregated Analysis of IMF Conditionality, 1980–2014 (2019, Social Science Research, 231 citations), Aid Effectiveness and Donor Motives (2024, World Development, 104 citations), and How to Evaluate the Effects of IMF Conditionality (2020, Review of International Organizations, 182 citations). He has created influential datasets including the Earmarked Funding Dataset and the Citizen Aid Transparency Dataset, enhancing empirical analysis in global political economy and development studies.