People

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Jesus Fernández-Villaverde - Director

Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania

Professor Fernandez-Villaverde has been a visiting Professor at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Oxford, and Cambridge and a visiting scholar at several Federal Reserve Banks, the European Central Bank, and the Bank of Spain. He is a member of NBER and CEPR, and a fellow of the Econometric Society. He is also a member of the editorial board of leading economic journals such as Econometrica, International Economic Review, and NBER Macroeconomics Annual. He has authored several books and over 60 scientific articles, with nearly 10,000 citations. For more information on him, visit his personal page.

 


 

Enrique Pallares - Research Director

Dr. Enrique Pallares holds a Ph.D. in Political Science with a specialization in Political Theory and World Politics from The Catholic University of America, where he has taught in the Politics Department and the School of Philosophy. His research focuses on the history of ideas, modernity, political philosophy, the history of political and economic liberalism (particularly in the Spanish and Latin American tradition), and political economy. 

 


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Fernando Arteaga - Academic Director

Senior Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Economics Department

Dr. Arteaga has a Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University and a Bachelor's degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. His research agenda lies at the intersection between economic history, new institutional economics, and development economics. For more information on him, visit his personal page.

 


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Ángel Alvarado

Senior Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Economics Department

Angel Alvarado has been a professor at Monteavila and Simón Bolívar University and a Member of Venezuela's National Assembly, where he serves as a ranking member of the economic team of the democratic opposition. He is also a member of the editorial board of Revista Ideas and the founder of the Observatorio Venezolano de Finanzas (OVF). For more information, visit https://angelalvaradorangel.com/

 


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Iván Luzardo Luna

Senior Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Economics Department

Dr. Luzardo got his PhD in Economic History at the London School of Economics. He also has a master in Economics from Georgetown University and completed an Advanced Studies Program in International Economic Policy at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (Germany), and a B.Sc. in Economics from Universidad del Norte (Colombia). His research focuses on labour economics, economic geography, and economic growth. For more information on him, visit his personal page.

 


 

Jacob Hall

John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Economics Department

Dr. Hall received his PhD in economics from George Mason University. He is an applied microeconomist working in the areas of economic history and political economy. Check out my personal website: jacobrhall.github.io


 

Michael Kane

Lecturer in Economics and Philosophy

Dr. Mike Kane is a historian of philosophy interested in political theory, political economy, and the relationship between philosophy and economics. He received his doctorate in philosophy from Boston College, where he was twice recognized with awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching. He is the recipient of a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities. He has also studied at Oxford University and Freiburg University, Germany.

Dr. Kane is also well-known as a family office principal and executive. He is a frequent speaker at family office events and co-directs the Wharton Private Wealth Management Program for family offices.


Andrej Svorenčík 

Andrej Svorenčík

Fellow 

Dr. Andrej Svorenčík received a doctoral degree in economics from the University of Utrecht. His dissertation The Experimental Turn in Economics was awarded the Joseph Dorfman Best Dissertation Prize of the History of Economics Society. For the book The Making of Experimental Economics, he and Harro Maas received the Best Book Award from the European Society for the History of Economic Thought. He was a fellow at the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University and a visiting professor at the University of Paris I Sorbonne. He is a Fellow of the Slovak Economic Association. For more information, visit personal page.
 


 

Tomohide Mineyama

Visiting Fellow 

Dr. Tomohide Mineyama is a Senior Economist at the International Monetary Fund. He received a doctoral degree in economics from Boston College. His research interests are on Macroeconomics, Monetary, Macro labor. For more information, visit personal page.