Richard Baldwin

Richard Edward Baldwin is Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute, Geneva since 1991, Policy Director of CEPR since 2006, Editor-in-Chief of Vox since he founded it in June 2007, and an elected Member of the Council of the European Economic Association. He was a Senior Staff Economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisors in the Bush Administration (1990-1991) following Uruguay Round, NAFTA and EAI negotiations as well as numerous US-Japan trade issues including the SII talks and the Semiconductor Agreement renewal. He was Co-managing Editor of the journal Economic Policy from 2000 to 2005, and Programme Director of CEPR’s International Trade programme from 1991 to 2001. The author of numerous books and articles, his research interests include international trade, globalisation, regionalism, and European integration; he has worked as consultant for the numerous governments, the European Commission, OECD, World Bank, EFTA, and USAID. He wrote his PhD at MIT under the guidance of Paul Krugman, with whom he has co-author a half dozen articles the most recent of which was published in 2004. His M.Sc. is from LSE, his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Turku School of Economics and Business in 2005.