Susan Aaronson
Research Professor of International Affairs
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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)
- Personal Site
- 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)
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- Expertise: econometrics
- Education: Ph.D. from University of Chicago
- Categories of Work: International Economic Policy
Tomas Williams
Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- 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
- Personal Site
- Expertise: exporters’ behavior in foreign markets
- Education: Ph.D. from Yale University
- Categories of Work: U.S.-China Economic Relations, International Trade