Álvaro Morcillo

Álvaro Morcillo

Álvaro Morcillo is a Research Fellow in the Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script” at the Free University Berlin. His research interests include international theory, international political sociology, history of the social sciences, in particular of International Relations, and philanthropic foundations. He is currently working on a book with the tentative title The Philanthropic Domination. Foreign Donors, Their Practices, and the Cold War’s Origins of Global IR. His work has been published in Journal of Latin American Studies, Journal of Classical Sociology, Estudios Sociológicos, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Comparative European Politics, and International Political Sociology. Álvaro has been a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), a visiting scholar at Columbia University, and a fellow at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study. Previously, he was an associate professor at CIDE in Mexico City.

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The Power of Philanthropic Foundations

by Álvaro Morcillo | 4 October, 2021 | Featured, Global Health, Political Economy

Divorces don’t usually send shockwaves through the global policy field. They almost never create uncertainty about the health of hundreds of millions of people. The split between Bill and Melinda Gates is doing both. It affects the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has an endowment worth almost $52 billion. In 2019, the foundation disbursed roughly $6 billion in aid and grants. About thereof of was spent on health in “developing” countries. No wonder stakeholders in global health governance are worried. We’re not just talking about small nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)...

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