Pao Engelbrecht is a PhD candidate in Politics at Princeton University, broadly interested in international and comparative political economy, as well as labor and economic history. He works on the political economy of security and development using archives, interviews, and statistical inference. Pao’s current research investigates why some international organizations adopt and promote economic policy paradigms against or without empirical evidence. Another area of his research explores the sources of internationalism in trade unions. Prior to joining Princeton, he has worked as a Mercator Fellow at the World Bank and Germany’s Ministry of Finance, and as a (remote) Pre-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Chicago. He holds a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Manchester and an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford.