Claudia Kedar is a historian and former Head of Iberian and Latin American Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She specializes in economic, international and transnational history. Her research interests include the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank and their relations with Latin America; the Cold War in Latin America; the so-called "Washington Consensus"; economic globalization; and contemporary Argentina and Chile.

Kedar received a PhD in History from the Graduate School of Historical Studies, Tel-Aviv University (2009). Between 2008 and 2009, she enrolled in a post-doctoral program at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), where she taught a course on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Latin America. In 2009-2010, Kedar was a post-doctoral fellow at the Hebrew University’s Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations, and in 2010-2011 she was a Lady Davis post-doctoral fellow in its Department of International Relations. In July 2012, she joined the Department of Romance and Latin American Studies and the School of History as faculty member.

Her first book, "The International Monetary Fund and Latin America. The Argentine Puzzle in Context" (Temple University Press, 2013), received an honorable mention from the 2014 Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award (LASA). She has published in leading journals like the Hispanic American Historical Review, the Journal of Latin American Studies, the International History Review, the Journal of Contemporary History, the Cold War History, and the Financial History Review.

Kedar's publications are based on extensive research in archives located in Argentina, Chile, Britain and the United States, including a wide range of historical documents from the archives of the IMF and the World Bank which have been declassified at her request.

Kedar is actually working on a new book manuscript tentatively entitled "The World Bank and the Cold War in the Americas. Politics, Economics and Development."

Her current research project, "Latin America and the Washington Consensuses in Historical Perspective, 1944-2000" is supported by the Israeli Science Foundation (Grant 631/19).

Among others, Kedar is a member of the academic committee of the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations (the Hebrew University) and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Contemporary History (UK).

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