Michael Kremer

Gates Professor of Developing Societies, FAS
Member of Faculty, HKS
Center for International Development
Office Address
Rubenstein-312
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 34
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-496-6670
Fax: 617-496-8753
Email: Michael_Kremer@ksg.harvard.edu
Assistant
Jeanne Winner (617-495-8462)
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Profile

Michael Kremer is the Gates Professor of Developing Societies in the Department of Economics and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Presidential Faculty Fellowship. Kremers recent research examines education and health in developing countries, immigration, and globalization. He and Rachel Glennerster have recently published Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases. His articles have been published in journals including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Kremer previously served as a teacher in Kenya. He founded and was the first Executive Director of WorldTeach, a nonprofit organization that places more than 360 volunteer teachers annually in developing countries (1986 to 1989).

 

Courses

Spring

  • PED-319 Development Economics II: Macroeconomic and Institutional Issues

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