About
Mirko Heinzel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at LSE, where he teaches and researches Global Governance and International Political Economy.
His research examines how global governance organisations can be aligned with their mandates when they rely on diverse individual agents to act on their behalf. He studies when differences in individuals’ expertise, backgrounds, and incentives shape organisational effectiveness and distributional outcomes, with a particular focus on international financial institutions and global development. Methodologically, he uses quantitative approaches centred on individuals, combining biographical data with survey and field experiments to study how individual agents exercise authority and shape organisational decision-making.
Research cluster affiliation
International Political Economy research cluster
International Institutions, Law and Ethics research cluster
Expertise
Economic Statecraft, Business-Government Relations, Global Governance
Research
Article
Bureaucratic Representation and Gender Mainstreaming in International Organizations: Evidence from the World Bank
Mirko Heinzel, Catherine Weaver and Samantha Jorgensen
American Political Science Review Vol 119 Issue 1
Article
Earmarked Funding and the Control-Performance Trade-Off in International Development Organizations
Mirko Heinzel, Ben Cormier, Bernhard Reinsberg
International Organization Vol 77 Issue 2
Article
International Bureaucrats and Organizational Performance. Country-Specific Knowledge and Sectoral Knowledge in World Bank Projects
Mirko Heinzel
International Studies Quarterly Vol 66 Issue 2
Article
Understanding Resourcing Trade-offs in International Organizations: Evidence from an Elite Survey Experiment
Mirko Heinzel, Bernhard Reinsberg and Christian Siauwijaya
The Journal of Politics Vol 88 No 3