Our Affiliated Faculty

Susan Aaronson

Research Professor of International Affairs

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Expertise: economic growth and human rights; digital trade and internent governance; global trade; free trade agreements, World Trade Organization (WTO); data trade; work to make trade policy more trusted, transparent and accountable
Education: Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins
Categories of Work: Global Economic Governance, U.S.-China Economic Relations, International Trade

Senay Agca

Professor of Finance

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Expertise: Macro-finance, government- corporate relations, credit risk, supply chains
Education: Ph.D. from Virgina Tech
Categories of Work: International Development, International Trade, Global Economic Governance, U.S.-China Economic Relations, International Finance, International Economic Policy

Sarah Baird

Associate Professor of Global Health and Economics

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Expertise: Development economics, global health, adolescents, gender, causal inference, RCTs
Education: Ph.D. from University of California Berkeley
Categories of Work: International Development,Development Economics and Poverty Alleviation, Economics of Ultra-Poverty

Michael Barnett

University Professor of International Affairs and Political Science

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Expertise: international affairs, global governance, humanitarianism, and the Middle East
Education: Ph.D. from University of Minnesota
Categories of Work: Global Economic Governance

Jennifer Brinkerhoff

Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs

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Expertise: interorganizational/cross-sector relations, international development management, diasporas and development, nongovernmental organizations, governance/state-society relations
Education: Ph.D. from University of Southern California
Categories of Work: Development Economics and Poverty Alleviation.

Leah Brooks

Associate Professor of Public Policy

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Expertise: urban economics, local public finance, political economy
Education: Ph.D. from UCLA in Economics
Categories of Work: Political Economy, Public and Urban Economics

Paul Carrillo

Professor of Economics and International Affairs

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Expertise: urban and regional economics
Education: Ph.D. from University of Virginia
Categories of Work: Adaptation to Climate Change, Economics of Ultra-Poverty, Development Economics and Poverty Alleviation

Steve Charnovitz

Associate Professor of Law

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Expertise: international trade, international labor law, international law, U.S. foreign relations law, environmental sustainability
Education: J.D. from Yale University, M.P.P. from Harvard University
Categories of Work: Global Economic Governance, International Trade, Adaption to Climate Change

Maggie Chen

Professor of Economics and International Affairs

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Expertise: international trade, foreign direct investment, and regionalism
Education: Ph.D. from University of Colorado Boulder
Categories of Work: U.S.- China Economic Relations, International Trade, International Finance

Barry Chiswick

Professor of Economics and International Affairs

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Expertise: skill acquisition, the labor market adjustment and economic impact of immigrants and immigration policy, and the human capital and labor market behavior of racial, religious, and ethnic groups
Education: Ph.D. from Columbia University
Categories of Work: Development, Poverty, and Inequality

Carmel Chiswick

Professor of Economics to Research Professor of Economics

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Expertise: economics of religion, economic history, economic development, economics of ethinicity, labor markets in less developed countries
Education: Ph.D. from Columbia University
Categories of Work: Development Economics and Poverty Alleviation

Reid Click

Associate Professor of International Business and International Affairs, Director of International Studies and the Center for International Business Education and Research

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Expertise: international corporate finance
Education: Ph.D. from University of Chicago
Categories of Work: Development Economics and Poverty Alleviation, International Finance

Uriyoan Colon-Ramos

Associate Professor Global Health Nutrition

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Expertise: Diet Disparities, Nutrition Equity, Global Public Health Nutrition
Education: Science Doctorate in Public Health Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health
Categories of Work: Development Economics and Poverty Alleviation, Development, Poverty, and Inequality

Alicia Cooperman

Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

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Expertise: Comparative environmental politics, political economy of development, civil society and social movements, urban and local politics
Education: Ph.D. from Columbia University, M.I.A. from University of California, San Diego
Categories of Work: International Development, Adaptation to Climate Change; Development, Poverty, and Inequality

Adam Dean

Assistant Professor of Political Science

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Expertise: political economy of international trade, labor politics, and American Political Development
Education: Ph.D. from University of Chicago
Categories of Work: Development Economics and Poverty Alleviation, International Trade

Jeffrey Ding

Assistant Professor of Political Science

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Expertise: Emerging Technologies, Economic Competition, Globalization, Security Studies
Education: Ph.D. from Oxford University
Categories of Work: U.S.-China Economic Relations; Global Economic Governance

Mary Ellsberg

Director of the Global Women's Institute, Professor of Global Health

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Expertise: gender based violence and its development consequences, especially in health
Education: Ph.D. from Umea University
Categories of Work: Development Economics and Poverty Alleviation, Global Economic Governance

Alessandra Fenizia

Assistant Professor of Economics

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Expertise: labor economics, public economics, productivity in the public sector, and organized crime
Education: Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley
Categories of Work: Development, Poverty, and Inequality

Irene Foster

Assistant Professor of Economics

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Expertise: Economic Education
Education: M.A. Economics (Madras University), M.S. Management (Purdue University), Ph.D. (Indiana University)
Categories of Work: Economics of Ultra-Poverty

James E. Foster

Oliver T. Carr, Jr. Professor of International Affairs and Professor of Economics, Vice Dean, Elliott School of International Affairs

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Expertise: development economics, inequality and poverty, economic theory and policy
Education: Ph.D. from Cornell University
Categories of Work: Development, Poverty, and Inequality, Economics of Ultra-Poverty, U.S.- China Economic Relations, Global Economic Governance

Steven Hamilton

Assistant Professor of Economics

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Expertise: tax economics, tax policy
Education: Ph.D. from University of Michigan
Categories of Work: Development, Poverty, and Inequality, International Finance

Cheng Huang

Associate Professor of Public Health

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Expertise: Global Health, Nutrition, Program Evaluation
Education: Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania
Categories of Work: Development, Poverty, and Inequality

Indira Iyer

Research Professor of International Affairs

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Expertise: Economic Development, Fiscal Policy, Tax Policy and Administration, Public Expenditure Management, Poverty
Education: PhD from George Washington University
Categories of Work: Public Finance, Macroeconomics, International Taxation, Development Economics

Remi Jedwab

Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs

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Expertise: development economics, urban economics and political economy themes, urbanization and structural transformation, the economic effects of transportation infrastructure, and agricultural and economic development in Africa
Education: Ph.D. from Paris School of Economics-EHESS
Categories of Work: Development Economics and Poverty Alleviation, Adaptation to Climate Change, Economics of Ultra-Poverty

Sumit Joshi

Professor of Economics

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Expertise: Economic theory, economic growth, economics of networks, India, microeconomic Theory
Education: Ph.D. from Indiana University
Categories of Work: International Trade, Economics of Ultra-Poverty, Development, Poverty, and Inequality

Graciela Laura Kaminsky

Professor of Economics and International Affairs

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Expertise: international finance, topics in emerging markets, macroeconomics, and topics in economic development
Education: Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Categories of Work: U.S.-China Economic Relations, Global Economic Governance, International Finance

Moses Kansanga

Assistant Professor of Geography and International Affairs

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Education: PhD from University of Western Ontario, Canada
Categories of Work: Adaptation to Climate Change; Development, Poverty, and Inequality

Stephen B. Kaplan

Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

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Expertise: political economy of global markets and development, politics of macroeconomic policymaking, Latin American politics, China’s foreign economic policy
Education: Ph.D. from Yale University
Categories of Work: U.S.-China Economic Relations, Global Economic Governance, International Finance, International Trade

Nina Kelsey

Associate Professor of Public Policy and International Affairs

Expertise: Environmental and energy policy at the international, national, and subnational levels, Political economy of energy and environmental policy
Education: PhD, UC Berkeley
Categories of Work: Climate Change and Sustainable Cities, Sustainable Economic Growth, International Trade, Economics of Ultra-Poverty, Development, Poverty, and Inequality

Eric Kramon

Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

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Expertise: comparative politics and methods
Education: Ph.D. from University of California, Los Angeles
Categories of Work: Global Economic Governance

Elira Kuka

Associate Professor of Economics

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Expertise: Applied microeconomics
Education: Ph.D. from University of California, Davis
Categories of Work: Development, Poverty, and Inequality,Economics of Ultra-Poverty

Danny M. Leipziger

Professor of International Business and International Affairs

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Expertise: Development Economics, International Economic Policy, Macro and Economic Growth
Education: Ph.D. from Brown University
Categories of Work: Development Economics and Poverty Alleviation, Economics of Ultra-Poverty, U.S.-China Economic Relations, Global Economic Governance, International Finance

Nicholas Li

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Expertise: labor economics, public economics, development economics, applied econometrics
Education: PhD from UC Berkeley
Categories of Work: Development, Poverty, and Inequality; International Economic Policy

Rafael M. Lopez-Monti

MIEP Director, Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs

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Expertise: macroeconomics, international finance, monetary economics
Education: Ph.D. from George Washington University
Categories of Work: International Finance, Global Economic Governance

Arun Malik

Professor of Economics, and Public Policy and Public Administration

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Expertise: Environmental and natural resource economics, regulatory policy design
Education: Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University
Categories of Work: Development Economics and Poverty Alleviation, Adaptation to Climate Change, Economics of Ultra-Poverty, U.S.-China Economic Relations

Michael Mann

Assistant Professor of Geography

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Expertise: economic geography, computing in social science, arts and humanities, remote sensing
Education: Ph.D. from Boston University
Categories of Work: Adaptation to Climate Change

Michael O. Moore

Professor of Economics and International Affairs

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Expertise: U.S. trade policy, economics of antidumping, foreign direct investment
Education: Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison
Categories of Work: U.S.-China Economic Relations, Global Economic Governance, International Finance

Robert W. Orttung

Research Professor of International Affairs; Director of Research, Sustainable GW

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Expertise: Urban sustainability, Arctic, Russia, Eurasia, Democratization, Cruise ship tourism impacts, Climate Change
Education: PhD from UCLA
Categories of Work: Adaptation to Climate Change

Joseph Pelzman

Professor of Economics and International Affairs; Professorial Lecturer of Law

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Expertise: international trade, international trade law, trade liberalization, tax reform
Education: Ph.D. from Boston College
Categories of Work: U.S.-China Economic Relations, Global Economic Governance, International Trade

Marie Price

Professor of Geography and International Affairs

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Expertise: political and cultural geography, Latin America, and immigration
Education: Ph.D. from Syracuse University
Categories of Work: Development Economics and Poverty Alleviation

Lucia Rafanelli

Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

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Expertise: political theory; contemporary political theory; theories of human rights and global justice; collective agency and collective personhood
Education: Ph.D. from Princeton University
Categories of Work: Development, Poverty, and Inequality

David Rain

Associate Professor of Geography and International Affairs

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Expertise: Urban and Population Geography
Education: Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University
Categories of Work: International Development, Sustainable Economic Growth, Climate Change and Sustainable Cities

Tanner Regan

Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs

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Expertise: urban and development economics; housing, land tenure, urban planning, and property tax in developing country cities
Education: Ph.D. from London School of Economics
Categories of Work: Development, Poverty, and Inequality

Jennifer Seager

Associate Professor of Global Health and Economics

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Expertise: global health, health economics, program evaluation
Education: Ph.D. from University of California, Irvine
Categories of Work: International Development, Development Economics and Poverty Alleviation

Jay C. Shambaugh

Professor of Economics and International Affairs

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Expertise: macroeconomics, international economics, competition policy, energy and environment policy, housing, finance, technology
Education: Ph.D. from University of California, Berkley
Categories of Work: U.S.-China Economic Relations, Global Economic Governance, International Finance

Tara Sinclair

Professor of Economics and International Affairs

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Expertise: macroeconomics, forecasting, time series econometrics
Education: Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis
Categories of Work: U.S.-China Economic Relations, Global Economic Governance, International Finance

Stephen C. Smith

Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Former Director of Institute for International Economic Policy (2009-2012, 2015-2017)

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Expertise: development economics, poverty, economics of organization, economics of participation
Education: Ph.D. from Cornell University
Categories of Work: Development, Poverty, and Inequality, Adaptation to Climate Change, Economics of Ultra-Poverty, U.S.-China Economic Relations, Global Economic Governance

Jennifer W. Spencer

Associate Professor of International Business and International Affairs and Director, Center for International Business Education and Research (GW-CIBER)

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Expertise: knowledge spillovers from multinational enterprises, knowledge diffusion and knowledge sharing, international entrepreneurship, emergence of high technology industries
Education: Ph.D. from University of Minnesota
Categories of Work: International Trade, International Finance

Steve Suranovic

Associate Professor

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Expertise: Ethics in economics, international trade policy, behavioral models of addiction, and climate change policy.
Education: Ph.D. from Cornell University
Categories of Work: International Economic Policy, Climate Change and Sustainable Cities, U.S.-China Economic Relations, Global Economic Governance, International Trade

David Szakonyi

Assistant Professor of Political Science

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Expertise: Political economy; business-government relations; post-Soviet politics; corruption; authoritarianism; clientelism
Education: Ph.D. from Columbia University
Categories of Work: Global Economic Governance

Emmanuel Teitelbaum

Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

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Expertise: comparative politics, South Asian politics, political economy of development, and political economy of labor
Education: Ph.D. from Cornell University
Categories of Work: Global Economic Governance, Development, Poverty, and Inequality

Nick Vonortas

Professor of Economics and International Affairs; Director, Institute for International Science and Technology Policy

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Expertise: Economics of technological change, industrial organization, and science and technology policy
Education: Ph.D from New York University
Categories of Work: Global Economic Governance

Chao Wei

Associate Professor of Economics

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Expertise: Macroeconomics, Energy Economics, Labor Economics, Network Economics
Education: Ph.D. from Stanford University
Categories of Work: U.S.-China Economic Relations, International Finance

Ariel Weinberger

Assistant Professor of International Business

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Expertise: International Economics: firm responses, and corresponding spillovers across businesses, to trade and financial globalization
Education: Ph.D. from University of California, Davis
Categories of Work: International Finance, International Development, U.S.-China Economic Relations, Global Economic Governance, International Trade, International Economic Policy

Robert J. Weiner

Professor of International Business, Public Policy and Public Administration, and International Affairs

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Expertise: political economy of energy security, oil & conflict, energy crises, resource nationalism, and US-Chinese competition for oil
Education: Ph.D. from Harvard University
Categories of Work: International Finance, International Strategy, Petroleum Industry, Privitization

Ben Williams

Assistant Professor of Economics

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Expertise: econometrics
Education: Ph.D. from University of Chicago
Categories of Work: International Economic Policy

Tomas Williams

Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs

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Expertise:International Finance, Financial Economics and Empirical Banking, Financial intermediaries and International capital flows
Education: PhD in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Categories of Work: International Finance, Global Economic Governance

Anthony Yezer

Professor of Economics

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Expertise: regional and urban economics, migration of labor and capital
Education: Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Categories of Work: Development Economics and Poverty Alleviation, Economics of Ultra-Poverty, Global Economic Governance

Yingyan Zhao

Assistant Professor

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Expertise: international trade, development economics, and industrial organization
Education: Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University
Categories of Work: International Trade, Development, Poverty, and Inequality

Former Faculty

Sabina Alkire

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Expertise: development economics; human security; poverty measurement and evaluation
Education: Ph.D. from University of Oxford
Categories of Work: Development, Poverty, and Inequality

William Becker

Professor of History and International Affairs

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Expertise: history of business; business-government relations; international economy
Education: Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University
Categories of Work: Global Economic Governance, International Trade

Esther Brimmer

Professor of Practice of International Affairs

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Expertise: U.S. foreign policy; international organizations; the European Union; U.S.-European relations; the United Nations; emerging powers and international politics; and international human rights
Education: Ph.D. from Oxford University
Categories of Work: Global Economic Governance, International Trade

Tony Castleman

Associate Research Professor of International Affairs, Associate Director for Institute for International Economic Policy

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Expertise: Nutrition and food security, development economics, program design, human recognition and dehumanization
Education: Ph.D. from George Washington University
Categories of Work: Development , Poverty, and Inequality

Wenjie Chen

Assistant Professor of International Business

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Expertise: International economics, foreign direct investment, and cross-border mergers and acquisitions
Education: Ph.D. from University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Categories of Work: U.S.-China Economic Relations, International Trade

Ram Fishman

Assistant Professor of Economics

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Expertise: Sustainable Development, Environmental and Agricultural Economics, Development Economics
Education: Ph.D. from Columbia University
Categories of Work: Adaptation to Climate Change, Economics of Ultra-Poverty, Development Economics and Poverty Alleviation

David Grier

Associate Professor of International Science and Technology Policy and International Affairs

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Expertise: Globalization and international standardization, scientific institutions, history of science
Education: Ph.D. from University of Washington
Categories of Work: U.S.-China Economic Relations, Global Economic Governance

Nathan Jensen

Associate Professor of International Business

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Expertise: international and comparative political economy, business-government relations, multinational corporations and foreign direct investment, corruption
Education: Ph.D. from Yale University
Categories of Work: Global Economic Governance

Frederick L. Joutz

Professor of Economics

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Expertise: macroeconomic and energy econometric modeling, forecasting
Education: Ph.D. from McGill University Quebec
Categories of Work: International Finance

Marcus D. King

John O. Rankin Associate Professor of International Affairs; Director, Master of Arts Program in International Affairs

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Expertise: environmental security, climate change and security, environmental scarcity and fragile states, energy security
Education: Ph.D. from Tufts University
Categories of Work: Adaptation to Climate Change, Global Economic Governance

Jeni Klugman

Research Professor

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Expertise: Economic development, human development, gender inequality, social policy
Education: Ph.D. from Australian National University
Categories of Work: Development Economics and Poverty Alleviation

Robert Maguire

Professor of Practice of International Affairs

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Expertise: cultural and regional geography, plantation and post-societies in the Americas, development, poverty alleviation, geopolitics of oil, Haiti, US-Caribbean relations, Caribbean Diaspora populations
Education: Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University
Categories of Work: Development Economics and Poverty Alleviation, Economics of Ultra-Poverty

Tim Moore

Assistant Professor of Economics

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Expertise: public economics, health economics, labor economics
Education: Ph.D. from University of Maryland
Categories of Work: Development, Poverty, and Inequality

Susan Sell

Professor of Political Science and International Affairs; Current: Professor, Australian National University

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Expertise: international political economy, intellectual property rights, North-South relations
Education: Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley
Categories of Work: U.S.-China Economic Relations, Global Economic Governance, International Trade

Herman Stekler

Professor of Economics, Emeritus

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Expertise: economic forecasting and macroeconomics
Education: Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Categories of Work: International Economic Policy

Bryan Stuart

Assistant Professor of Economics

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Expertise: Labor, public, and urban economics, and economic history
Education: Ph.D. from University of Michigan
Categories of Work: Global Economic Governance, and Development, Poverty, and Inequality

Aisling Swaine

Director of the Center on Gender Equality in International Affairs; Associate Professor of Practice of International Affairs

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Expertise: violence against women related to armed conflict, humanitarian and development settings; the Women, Peace and Security agenda; global gender equality policy; feminist legal theory; and international law and transitional justice
Education: Ph.D. from Ulster University
Categories of Work: Development, Poverty, and Inequality

Olga Timoshenko

Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs

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Expertise: exporters’ behavior in foreign markets
Education: Ph.D. from Yale University
Categories of Work: U.S.-China Economic Relations, International Trade