Olimpia Malatesta
Olimpia Malatesta is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the University of Bologna and Boston University, with research secondments at the University of Vienna and Brunel University London. She is a historian of political thought working at the intersection of political philosophy, intellectual history, and social and economic theory. She received her PhD in cotutelle from the University of Bologna and Friedrich Schiller University Jena. She is the author of “Ordoliberalism, State and Society: A Political Theory of Social Order” (Routledge, 2025), a critical study of the political and social thought of German ordoliberalism. Her current project, “EcoPlanAge – Ecological Planning and Economic Rationalities: Political and Epistemological Theories in the Age of Polycrisis”, explores the history and contemporary relevance of economic and ecological planning through the works of Otto Neurath, Karl Polanyi, Ludwig von Mises, and Friedrich A. Hayek. She is also a member of the Political Planning research group at the University of Bologna. Her broader research interests include critical theory, neoliberalism, authoritarian liberalism, the German Conservative Revolution, and the political and epistemological dimensions of planning.