Hannes Tepper is a PhD candidate in economics at the Paris School of Economics and a Doctoral Fellow at the Sorbonne Economics Centre. He is currently a PhD Fellow at the Harvard Center for International Development (CID) as part of the Reimagining the Economy Project and a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship.
His research sits at the intersection of international economics and macro-development economics, combining macroeconomic and microeconomic perspectives on structural transformation and the role of industrial policy in economic development. On the macro side, he studies how governments can design coherent development strategies, how the service sector contributes to long-run growth, and how policy priorities evolve along the development process. On the micro side, he analyzes firm behavior and the role of externalities to better understand how industrial policy interventions translate into productivity dynamics and structural change.
During his PhD, Hannes collaborated with the Brazilian Statistical Agency (IBGE). He also held visiting positions at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). He holds a BSc in socioeconomics from Kiel University and an MSc from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and the Paris School of Economics.