Richard Baldwin

Who is Richard Baldwin?

Richard E. Baldwin is an economist working as a professor of international economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. He is an elected Member of the Council of the European Economic Association as well as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Centre for Economic Policy Research.

He has published in the areas of international trade, regionalism, European integration, economic geography, political economy and growth.

He wrote his PhD at MIT under the guidance of Paul Krugman, with whom he has co-authored a half dozen articles. He received an honorary doctorate from the Turku School of Economics and Business, Finland, in 2005.

In 1990–1991 he followed trade matters for the President's Council of Economic Advisors in the Bush Administration. He has consulted for many governments and international organisations including the EU, the OECD, the World Bank, EFTA, USAID. He worked as an Associate Economic Affairs Officer for UNCTAD in the early 1980s.