Institute for International Economic Policy

Faculty & Staff

James E. Foster, Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Ph.D from Cornell University
Director, Institute for International Economic Policy, Ph.D. from Cornell University
Expertise: Development economics, inequality and poverty, economic theory and policy

Steven Suranovic, Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs
Director, International Trade and Investment Policy Program (July 2012 - present), Ph.D. from Cornell University
Expertise: International trade, international trade policy analysis, fairness in international trade

Tony Castleman, Associate Research Professor of International Affairs
Associate Director, Institute for International Economic Policy, Ph.D. from The George Washington University
Expertise: Nutrition and food security, development economics, program design, human recognition and dehumanization

Kyle Renner, Institute Operations Manager

Affiliated Faculty

Susan Aaronson, Associate Research Professor of International Affairs, P.hD from Johns Hopkins
Expertise: Human rights, governance, and economic growth; global trade; global corporate social responsibility

Sarah Baird, Assistant Professor of Global Health, Ph.D University of California Berkeley, 2007
Expertise: Development economics, program design and evaluation, health of infants and youth, HIV/AIDS

Michael Barnett, Professor of International Affairs and Political Science, Ph.D from University of Minnesota
Expertise: International affairs, global governance, humanitarianism, and the Middle East

William Becker, Professor of History and International Affairs, Ph.D from Johns Hopkins University
Expertise: History of business, business-government relations, international economy

Paul Carrillo, Assistant Professor of Economics, Ph.D from University of Virginia
Expertise: Urban and regional economics, applied microeconomics in developing economies

Steve Charnovitz, Associate Professor of Law, JD from Yale University and MPP from Harvard University
Expertise: Trade law and labor and environmental standards, WTO dispute settlements

Maggie Chen, Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Ph.D from University of Colorado-Boulder
Expertise: International trade, foreign direct investment, regional trade agreements

Wenjie Chen, Assistant Professor of International Business, Ph.D from University of Michigan
Expertise: International Finance and International Trade

Ram Fishman, Assistant Professor of Economics, Ph.D from Columbia University
Expertise: Environmental and Agricultural Economics, Development Economics

Ana Fostel, Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Ph.D from Yale University
Expertise: International finance, sovereign debt and default, emerging markets, capital market access

David Grier, Associate Professor of International Affairs, Ph.D from University of Washington
Expertise: Globalization and international standardization, scientific institutions, history of science

Llewelyn Hughes, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Ph.D from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Expertise: Political economy of energy, international relations of Northeast Asia, Japanese domestic politics

Remi Jedwab, Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Ph.D in Economics from Paris School of Economics-EHESS
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

Sumit Joshi, Professor of Economics, Ph.D from Indiana University
Expertise: Economic theory, economic growth, economics of networks, India

Frederick L. Joutz, Professor of Economics, Ph.D from McGill University (Quebec)
Expertise: macroeconomic and energy econometric modeling, forecasting

Graciela Laura Kaminsky, Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Ph.D from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Expertise: International Finance, Topics in Emerging Markets, Macroeconomics, and topics in Economic Development

Stephen Kaplan, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Ph.D from Yale University
Expertise: Political economy of global markets and development, politics of macroeconomic policymaking, Latin American politics

Marcus D. King, Associate Research Professor of International Affairs
Associate Director of Research, Ph.D from Tufts University
Expertise: Political economy of global markets and development, politics of macroeconomic policymaking, Latin American politics

Danny M. Leipziger, Professor of International Business, Ph.D from Brown University
Expertise: Development Economics, International Economic Policy, Macro and Economic Growth

Robert Maguire, Professor of Practice, Ph.D from Johns Hopkins University
Expertise: Developing countries in the Western Hemisphere (specializing in Haiti)

Arun Malik, Professor of Economics, Ph.D from Johns Hopkins University
Expertise: Environmental and natural resource economics, regulatory policy design

Michael O. Moore, Professor of Economics and International Affairs
Director (2010-2012), International Trade and Investment Policy Program, and Director (2007-2009) of the Institute for International Economic Policy, PhD from University of Wisconsin-Madison
Expertise: U.S. trade policy, economics of antidumping, foreign direct investment

Joseph Pelzman, Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Ph.D from Boston College
Expertise: International trade, international trade law, trade liberalization, tax reform

Jay C. Shambaugh, Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs
Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley University
Expertise: International Macroeconomics

Tara Sinclair, Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Ph.D from Washington University in St. Louis
Expertise: Macroeconomics, forecasting, time series econometrics

Susan Sell, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Ph.D from University of California-Berkeley
Expertise: International political economy, intellectual property rights, North-South relations

Stephen C. Smith, Professor of Economics and International Affairs
Director (2009-2012), Institute for International Economic Policy, Ph.D from Cornell University
Expertise: Development economics, poverty, economics of organization, economics of participation

Jennifer W. Spencer, Associate Professor of International Business and International Affairs and Director, Center for International Business Education and Research (GW-CIBER), Ph.D from University of Minnesota
Expertise: Knowledge spillovers from multinational enterprises, knowledge diffusion and knowledge sharing, international entrepreneurship, emergence of high technology industries

Inder Sud, John O. Rankin Professor of the Practice of International Affairs and Director, Master of Arts Program in International Affairs, Ph.D from Stanford University
Expertise: International development, development policy, governance, foreign aid; Asia, Middle East, and North Africa

Olga Timoshenko, Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Ph.D from Yale University
Expertise: Exporters' Behavior in Foreign Markets

Chao Wei, Associate Professor of Economics, Ph.D Economics, Stanford University
Expertise: Macroeconomics, Financial Economics, Computational Economics