Curriculum Vitae
My most relevant work experience
Professional Experience
04/2025 – 02-2026
Policy Advisor
Policy Advisor for Trade Policy
02/2025 – 04-2025
Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Post-Doc Wrap up Researcher
10/2020 – 01-2025
Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Doctoral Researcher
10/2023 – 02/2024
Lecturer
University of Cologne – International Relations Center (ZIB) – WiSo Fakultät
Course independently designed (incl. syllabus) and taught by me.
Course Title: Sustainable Industrial Policy in Political Economy: Current Challenges and Policy Options.
10/2021 – 02/2022
Teaching assistant
Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Course Title: Integrating Perspectives of CPE and IPE.
Education
10/2020 – 01/2025
IMPRS – International Max-Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economies (IMPRS-SPCE)
Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Societies – University of Cologne
Areas of expertise
- Industrial Policy;
- National Development Banks and State-Owned Enterprises;
- Political Economy of Banking.
Dissertation Title: Forced Back into the Game but Unfit to Play: The Late Rebirth of European Industrial State Finance in the New Phase of Global Capitalism.
10/2016 – 02-2019
Master of Arts: Sociology – European Societies
Freie Universität Berlin
Final Grade: 1.0/1.0
Master’s Thesis: Economic Crisis and Institutional Change in Industrial Relations in Mediterranean Countries at the National and Local Level. A Case Study of Italy.
09/2010 – 12/2015
Università degli Studi di Milano
Bachelor’s Degree: Political Science
Final grade: 110/110 with honors
Bachelor’s Thesis: Health Inequalities in the Former Soviet Union: a Comparative Analysis of Six Countries.
Conferences and Presentations
| 06/2024 | Annual “Economy and Society Summer Conference for Graduate Students in Political Economy and Economic Sociology – Sciences Po – Menton Campus, France Presented paper: German industrial policy and state finance: the KfW at the intersection between state finance and capacity. |
| 07/2023 | CES Conference 2023 – Reykjavik, Iceland Paper 1: The Invisible Hand of the State: The Use of National Development Banks to Enforce Growth Strategies. Paper 2 (with M.O. Iqbal): Filtering Global Capital: National Development Banks as Functional Equivalents for Inward FDI in Europe. |
| 04/2023 | Central European University Annual Doctoral Conference – Vienna, Austria Presented paper: The Invisible Hand of the State: The Use of National Development Banks to Enforce Growth Strategies. |
| 02/2023 | SISEC Conference 2023 – Brescia, Italy Presented paper: The historical role of state-owned enterprises and financial agencies in shaping Italian growth and development strategies. |
| 09/2022 | Industrial Relations in Europe Conference (IREC) (2022) – Tampere, Finland Presentation: Italian industrial relations: between regional dynamics and national growth models and strategies. |
Peer Review Experience
| 2024 | Peer Reviewer for the MPIfG Discussion Paper Series |
| 2024 | Peer Reviewer for the MPIfG Discussion Paper Series |
| 2023 | Peer Reviewer for Review of International Political Economy (RIPE) |
Language skills
| Overall | Reading | Listening | Writing | Speaking | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ITALIAN | Native | Native | Native | Native | Native |
| ENGLISH | C2 | C2 | C2 | C2 | C2 |
| GERMAN | C1 | C1 | C1 | C1 | B2 |
| SPANISH | B2 | C1 | C1 | B2 | B2 |
| FRENCH | A1 | B1 | A2 | A1 | A1 |
Dr. Marco ObertI 