Peter Volberding, Gastwissenschaftler an der Professur Internationale Beziehungen und
Internationale Politische Ökonomie
Peter Volberding is a 5th year PhD candidate in international relations at the Government
Department at Harvard University. His dissertation examines the evolution of national development
banking in the post-WWII global economic order. In particular, it focuses on the important role that
Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) has played in creating the norms of development banking and
how KfW has promoted these norms in developing countries, especially that of China, Brazil, and
Eastern Europe. While in Frankfurt he will conduct archival research and interviews at KfW.