Richard Baldwin

Richard E. Baldwin is a professor of international economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, where he has been researching globalization and trade since 1991. He was the former President of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He is the Editor-in-Chief of VoxEU, which he founded in June 2007. 

He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and was twice elected as a Member of the Council of the European Economic Association. Baldwin has been called "one of the most important thinkers in this era of global disruption."

After obtaining a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1980, he received a master's degree from the London School of Economics in 1981. He completed his Ph.D. at MIT in 1986 under the guidance of Paul Krugman, with whom he has co-authored half a dozen articles. 

He received honorary doctorates from the Turku School of Economics (Finland), the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), and the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). The International Economic Association made him a Schumpeter-Haberler Distinguished Fellow in 2021.

He was Associate Professor (1989–1991) and Assistant Professor (1986–1989) at Columbia University Business School. In 1990–1991 he followed trade matters for the President's Council of Economic Advisors in the Bush White House. He worked as an Associate Economic Affairs Officer for UNCTAD in the early 1980s. In 1991 he joined the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies as a Professor of International Economics, where he has remained. 

He has also been a visiting research professor at MIT (2003), Oxford (2012-2015) and is still an Associate Member of Nuffield College at Oxford University. He has consulted for many governments and international organizations including the EU, the OECD, the World Bank, EFTA, and USAID.

He has published extensively in the areas of globalization, international trade, regionalism, WTO, European integration, economic geography, political economy, and growth. He is recognised as an expert on the economic drivers and risks of globalization. His book, The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization, was published in November 2016 and listed among the Best Books of 2016 by The Financial Times and The Economist magazine. He also writes extensively on current economic policy. He has over 51,000 Google Scholar sites and an H-index of 94.