Dani Rodrik - Biography

Dani Rodrik (born August 14, 1957 in İstanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish economist and Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, teaching 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. Descended from a family of Sephardic Jews who escaped to Ottoman Empire from the Iberian Peninsula five centuries ago during the Spanish Inquisition, he is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research, Centre for Economic Policy Research (London), Center for Global Development, Institute for International Economics, and Council on Foreign Relations, and is the co-editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics. 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 Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought in 2002 from the Global Development and Environment Institute. He is the among the 100 most influential economists in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc.

After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, he earned an A.B. (summa cum laude) from Harvard College, followed by a Ph.D. in economics and an MPA from Princeton University.

He also writes for a Turkish daily newspaper (Radikal) since July, 2009.

He joined the newly created World Economics Association as member of the executive committee, in 2011.

Rodrik's cautious account of the opportunities and challenges presented by integration into the global economy are an exception to the general view of professional economists, according to Martin Wolf.

He is married to the daughter of retired General Çetin Doğan.

Selected publications

External links

• Who's Dani Rodrik
• Dani Rodrik's home page
• Dani Rodrik's latest research
• Dani Rodrik's weblog
• "Roads to Prosperity" Dani Rodrik's op/ed column for Project Syndicate.