Tania Messell

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Tania Messell is a design historian whose research focuses on design professionalisation, design and globalisation and design for development in the long twentieth century. She holds an MA from the History of Design programme run by the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Royal College of Art and a PhD from the University of Brighton. Author of several peer-reviewed publications and co-editor of International Design Organisations: Histories, Legacies, Values (Bloomsbury, 2022), she is also an Associate Researcher at the Global Governance Centre at the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID) and a member of the Governing through Design collective.