Orfeo Fioretos is Assistant Professor of Political Science with a primary research and teaching focus in international relations and political economy. He received his BA from Bennington College and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.

Fioretos’ research examines the role of international organizations in national strategies of economic modernization and the historical origins of international market regulation. He is the author ofCreative Reconstructions: Multilateralism and European Varieties of Capitalism After 1950 (Cornell University Press, forthcoming 2011), which examines the impact of international cooperation on economic institutions and structural reform in Europe's largest economies. His work is published or forthcoming in International Organization, Review of International Political Economy,Comparative Political Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, Review of International Studies, and numerous edited volumes. Fioretos is now completing a book-length project on the origins and evolution of global regulatory gaps entitled, Capital Collisions: Ungovernance and the Politics of Global Re-regulation in the 21st Century.