Corinna Unger is a Professor of  Global and Colonial History (for the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) at the European University Institute in Florence. She received her PhD in PhD in History from the University of Freiburg in 2005. Her most recent work International Development: A Postwar History (London: Bloomsbury, 2018), offers the first concise historical overview of international development policies and practices in the 20th century. 

Corinna Unger has also been a Principle Investigator in a number of research projects, including The  International  History  of  Rural  Development since 1950. This was funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. Specifically, the project was interested in the communication between the rural populations and the international organisations.