Dani Rodrik

Member of the Scientific Council

Dani Rodrik is Professor of international political economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and teaches in the School's MPA/ID Program. 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, the Center for Economic Policy Research, the Center for Global Development (Washington), the Institute for International Economics, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He has been the recipient of research grants from the Carnegie Corporation, Ford Foundation, and Rockefeller Foundation. Among other honors, he was presented the Leontief Award for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought in 2002.