Mark Copelovitch

Mark Copelovitch is a professor of political science and public affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He studies and teaches international political economy and international relations, with an emphasis on the political economy of international money and finance, international organizations, and the politics of economic shocks and financial crises. His work sits at the nexus of political science and economics and at the intersection of international relations and comparative politics. Copelovitch also studies European politics and the European Union, focusing on the political economy of the Eurozone and the EU's role in the global economy. He is director of European studies at UW–Madison and currently chairs the executive committee of the European Union Studies Association (EUSA).

Copelovitch has published two books, The International Monetary Fund in the Global Economy: Banks, Bonds, and Bailouts (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Banks on the Brink: Global Capital, Securities Markets, and the Political Roots of Financial Crises (Cambridge, 2020, with David Andrew Singer), as well as articles in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, International Organization, and other leading political science and public policy journals.

Copelovitch received his BA in political science from Yale University, and his MA and PhD in political science from Harvard University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University, and he has been a visiting scholar at the Hertie School and the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. Copelovitch received the Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin, and he held the European Commission's Jean Monnet Chair in the European Union and the Global Economy.  

Copelovitch regularly writes and comments on economic policy, international affairs, and politics in the media and in public lectures.