Carlo Edoardo Altamura

Carlo Edoardo Altamura is Assistant Professor (Lecturer) of Twentieth Century Latin American History at the Department of History, University of Manchester. In August 2024, he started a 5-year SNSF Starting Grant with a project titled “A Matter of Life and Debt: The Lost Decade and the Rise of Neoliberalism in Latin America, 1982-1994” (CHF 1’800’000) at the University of Lausanne where he is currently an Assistant Professor.

Previously he was a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Ambizione Senior Research Fellow at the Department of International History and Politics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva with a five-year research project titled “Business with the Devil? Assessing the Financial Dimension of Authoritarian Regimes in Latin America, 1973-85” (CHF 992'419).

He is the author of European Banks and the Rise of International Finance: The Post-Bretton Woods Era (2016) and A Global Financial History of Oil Crises (2025). His publications have appeared, amongst others, in the Business History Review, Business History, the Financial History Review, Journal of Contemporary History and The International History Review.

His current interests lie in post-war international financial history in the West and in the developing world; the historical origins of financial globalisation and the political uses of debt.