New Coordinator Research Network ‘Globalisation, Inequality, and Sustainability in Long-Term Perspective’

As per 1 January 2025, Pim de Zwart will be succeeded as coordinator of the Research Network ‘Globalisation, Inequality, and Sustainability in Long-Term Perspective’ of the N.W. Posthumus Institute by his colleague Daniel Gallardo Albarrán. The N.W. Posthumus Institute is very grateful to Pim voor his efforts for the Research Network and for the N.W. Posthumus Institute over the past years and of course welcomes Daniel as new coordinator.

Daniel currently works as assistant professor at the Economic and Environmental History Group at Wageningen University Research. His research focuses on the historical roots of global health inequality and their implications for global welfare disparities. His publications consider the effect of sanitary infrastructures on public health; the impact of Dutch colonialism on health outcomes in Java; the link between health and welfare (19th and 20th century); and how health improves productivity. Also, I have studied the determinants of economic performance (19th and 20th century). Currently, he is conducting two projects. The first considers the determinants of clean water, sanitation since 1850 from a global perspective and it is funded by the Dutch Research Council. The second analyses the uneven establishment of healthcare and sanitation in colonial Africa, ca 1900-1960, funded by the Swedish Research Council. He also manages Long-Run Health Matters, a research portal summarizing important work on the origins of global health inequality.