Sebastian Galiani

Sebastian Galiani is Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. He obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of Oxford and works broadly in the field of Development Economics. He is also a Fellow of the NBER and BREAD. Sebastian was Secretary of Economic Policy, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Treasury, Argentina, between January of 2017 and June of 2018.

Sebastian is academic editor of PLOS ONE and associate editor of the Journal of Development Economics; Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and Latin American Economic Review. He published papers in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Review of Economics and Statistics, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Labour Economics, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Economica, Economic Inquiry, Health Economics, Nature, American Journal of Epidemiology and STATA Journal among others.

Sebastian’s work has been featured in Science, The NBER Digest, The Economist, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Times Magazine, Slate and many other newspapers and magazines around the world. He received the Konex Diploma in Development Economic (2006-2016). He has served as Scientific Director of JPAL-LAC and as member of the Board of Directors of JPAL, MIT. He has also worked as consultant for Gates Foundation, United Nations, Inter-American Development Bank, Innovations for Poverty Action, World Bank, and several governments around the world.

Pablo Andrés Neumeyer

Pablo Andrés Neumeyer is a professor of economics at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. His research is in the fields of macroeconomics, international finance and development. He has published theoretical and applied papers in several journals including American Economic Review, Econometrica and the Journal of Monetary Economics. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and a Guggenheim Fellow and received de Premio Konex Platino (2016).

He obtained his PhD in economics from Columbia University in 1992 and studied economics as an undergraduate at Universidad de Buenos Aires. He was Argentina’s Central Bank’s chief economist between February 2016 and June 2018. He is a consultant in topics related to international finance and development for the financial industry, central banks, and international financial institutions. He has given seminars and public lectures at numerous throughout the Americas, Europe and Japan. He taught was a professor at the University of Southern California and taught at Stanford University, Universidad de Montevideo, Universidad de los Andes, University of Chicago, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, New York University, and Universidad Carlos III. He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards.

He is the head of LACEA’s network on International Finance since 1999. He was chair of the Latin American Chapter of the Econometric Society and served in the Consejo de Administración Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Global Development Network. He is the founding editor of the blog Foco Económico and member of LACEA, American Economics Association, and Econometric Society

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Juan Tellez

Juan Tellez served as Fellow at the Growth Lab from 2014-2016. After departing the Center for International Development, he worked as a Lecturer of Financial Econometrics at University of Neuchâtel as well as Lead Statistician at the French Institute of Health and Medical Research (2016 -2017). He was an Associate in Model Risk Governance – Electronic Trading at JP Morgan in London from (2017-2019). He worked as a Director in Algorithmic Trading Strategies Validation at UBS (2019-2022).

He holds a Master in Economics (2005), a Master of Advanced Studies in Econometrics (2008) and a PhD in Econometrics (2014) from the University of Geneva. His previous research has focused on proposing new econometric methodologies that are useful in the areas of development, health, inequality and social and public policy. He was a research assistant in the Applied Economics Lab of the University of Geneva (2006) and a teaching and research assistant in the Department of Economics of the University of Geneva (2006-2012), for the courses of Econometrics, Time Series, Probability, Statistics and Mathematics. He was also a Boninchi scholar and visiting researcher at McMaster University in Canada (2010-2011) and he worked as a researcher in the French Institute of Health and Medical Research (2011-2013).

Stuart Russell

Stuart Russell formerly provided research and administrative assistance to the Growth Lab program. Originally from Ellicott City, Maryland, Stuart graduated from Swarthmore College in June 2014 with high honors in economics and political science. He also studied for a semester at the Institut d’études politiques de Bordeaux in Bordeaux, France through a Middlebury College program. While at Swarthmore, Stuart worked as a research assistant in the political science department and a teaching assistant in the economics department. He has previously worked as an intern with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington, D.C. and the U.S. State Department in Paris, France. 

Katherina Nguyen

Katherina Nguyen formerly led interactive interface design and data visualization work to support the Atlas development team and help showcase the center’s research initiatives. Previously, Katherina founded the Resident Designer program at StartX Accelerator, worked as internal design specialist at DataCollective Venture Capital, and independently consulted companies on design strategy across a range of industries for over four years. Katherina graduated with honors from Stanford University’s Science, Technology, and Society program. In a past life, she served the public sector at San Jose City Hall with local grassroots initiatives.

José Morales Arilla

José Morales Arilla returned to Harvard’s Growth Lab as a Research Fellow in 2022. He is also a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University’s Department of Politics. He will join Texas A&M’s Bush School of Government and Public Service as an Assistant Professor in the Fall of 2023.

His fields of research are Political Economy and Development Economics. His work leverages advanced quantitative methods to study the political causes and consequences of some of today’s most pressing development issues – inequality, violence, trade and growth.

José first joined the Growth Lab as a Research Fellow in 2013, and later as a Doctoral Fellow in 2020. Previously, José served as policy advisor to Henrique Capriles’ Presidential Campaign, and as researcher and consultant for the Interamerican Development Bank, IESA, Transparency International, the Revenue Watch Institute, the International Budget Partnership and Venezuela’s Central Bank.

José holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University; a Master’s Degree in Public Administration and International Development (MPAID, 2012), and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, Venezuela.

He loves playing the drums, watching movies and reading political chronicles.

Christina Langer

Christina Langer joined the Center for International Development’s Growth Lab in February 2020. She is a PhD student at the Chair of Economics, esp. Macroeconomics at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in Germany. Christina studied economics at the University of Regensburg (Germany) and the University of Southern Denmark and holds a Master’s degree in economics (Master of Science with Honors). Her Master’s course of study is part of the University of Regensburg’s “Honors” program and an elite graduate program belonging to the Elite Network of Bavaria. Her research interests cover the fields of empirical labor and educational economics with a special focus on the labor market effects of technical change and the German apprenticeship system.

Marco Guerzoni

Marco Guerzoni is a professor in Applied Economics at the University of Turin and was formerly a visiting scholar at the Growth Lab in the Center for International Development.

He is co-founder of Despina, the Big Data Lab at the Department of Economics and Statistics, where he teaches Data Science for Business Intelligence, Entrepreneurship, Economics of Innovation and Technology policy. His research area covers management and economics of innovation, technology policy, and advanced data science. He has recently been working on the methodological implications of big-data and machine learning for business and social science, with a focus on the issues of model selection, inference, and hypotheses mining. He has been published in international journals, including Research Policy, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Italian Journal of Applied Statistics, and Journal of Evolutionary Economics. He is also a member of BRICS-Collegio Carlo Alberto and ICRIOS-Università Bocconi.

Jim Huangnan Shen

Dr. Jim Huangnan Shen is currently a research associate at the Growth Lab at the Center for international Development at Harvard University. He was a visiting post-doc fellow at the Growth Lab, where he conducted research related to product space, export complexity, and structural transformation of developing countries under the supervision of Professor Ricardo Hausmann and Dr. Frank Neffke. He obtained his PhD in Development Economics from University of London (SOAS). He earned his MSc in Economics and Management and BSc in Management at London School of Economics and Political Science. He is also the co-founder of the Core China Research Center at the University of Navarra in Spain. His main research interests are in development economics, political economy, industrial economics, public policy, and regional studies. His research has appeared in journals, including Economic Modelling, Journal of Asian Economics, Contemporary Economic Policy, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, and Emerging Markets Finance and Trade. He has more than 15 working papers that are currently at the stage of under review. He is particularly interested in using the I-O model and World Input-Output database (WIOD) to both theoretically and empirically study the issues of division of gains as well as the industrial upgrading along the global supply chains.

Wensheng Lin

Wensheng Lin was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for International Development Growth Lab from August to September 2020. He is currently a PH.D student in Economic Geography at Peking University (China). He holds a Bachelor`s degree in urban planning from Renmin University (China) and a master’s degree in human geography from Peking University (China).

His fields of interest cover dynamic evolution of China`s export products from the perspective of Social Network Analysis and The rise of China’s innovative enterprises from the perspective of Evolutionary Economic Geography——taking the Mobile phone Industry as an example. 

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