Biographical Sketch

Dani Rodrik is professor of international political economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.  He has published widely in the areas of international economics, economic development, and political economy. What constitutes good economic policy and why some governments are better than others in adopting it are the central questions on which his research focuses. He is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research, Centre for Economic Policy Research (London), Center for Global Development, Peterson Institute for International Economics, and Council on Foreign Relations. He was awarded the inaugural Albert O. Hirschman Prize of the Social Science Research Council in 2007. He has also received the Leontief Award for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought, an honorary doctorate from the University of Antwerp, and research grants from the Carnegie Corporation, Ford Foundation, and Rockefeller Foundation.

Professor Rodrik's articles have been published in the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, and other academic journals. His 1997 book Has Globalization Gone Too Far? was called “one of the most important economics books of the decade” in Business Week.  His most recent book is One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth (forthcoming, Princeton University Press.)  He  is the editor also of a collection titled In Search of Prosperity: Analytic Narratives on Economic Growth (Princeton University Press, 2003).  In addition, he is the author of The New Global Economy and Developing Countries: Making Openness Work (Overseas Development Council, Washington DC, 1999). 

Professor Rodrik is an editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics and an associate editor of the Journal of Economic Literature.  He has given the Sir Arthur Lewis Distinguished Lecture at the University of the West Indies, Barbados (2009), the Yan Fu Memorial Lecture in Beijing (2006), the WIDER Annual Lecture (2004), the Gaston Eyskens Lectures (2002), the Carlos F. Diaz Alejandro Lecture at the Latin American meeting of the Econometric Society (2001), the Alfred Marshall Lecture of the European Economic Association (1996), and the Raul Prebisch Lecture of UNCTAD (1997).  His most recent research is concerned with the determinants of economics growth and the consequences of international economic integration.

Professor Rodrik holds a Ph.D. in economics and an MPA from Princeton University, and an A.B. (summa cum laude) from Harvard College.