Trained in history and economics at the Ecole normale supérieure and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Blaise Truong-Loï received his PhD in history from Sciences Po in 2024. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge in 2022-2023 and was awarded the best dissertation prize, category long nineteenth-century, by the International Economic History Association in 2025. Before joining the UZH, he was a junior lecturer at Paris Nanterre University (2023-2025) and a Max Weber postdoctoral fellow at the European University Institute in Florence (2025-2026). 

Blaise Truong-Loï's research explores the social, political, and environmental dimensions of financial globalisation and global economic governance. Drawing on insights from other disciplines (economics, political science, law, sociology…), his work emphasises the significance of the late nineteenth century for understanding contemporary debates on capitalism. While finalizing the book manuscript drawn from his PhD dissertation on International financial control institutions (1870-1914), he'll start a new research project on the ownership of financial securities in French rural areas around the 1900s.