Academic Background

BSc (London School of Economics), MSc (London School of Economics), PhD (University of California at Berkeley)

Biography

Maurice Kugler is CIGI Chair in International Public Policy in the Department of Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University. He conducts research on international trade, foreign direct investment and skilled migration. Past work has dealt with foreign direct investment, productivity growth and skilled migration. Recent research deals with export dynamics, reallocation after market oriented reforms, and the link of international capital flows with labor migration. More generally, Kugler explores how global market integration, and other reforms, impact upon the prospects of economic growth and convergence for the poor in nations and regions. Since 2006, he holds a Research Fellowship at the Growth Lab of the Center for International Development in Harvard University. He has taught at Harvard, Los Andes, Southampton, and Stanford Universities. Kugler has been awarded research grants by the NSF and the Tinker Foundation in the US as well as DfID and the ESRC in the UK. He has been adviser to the Central Bank of Colombia, the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank, and earned a PhD in economics from UC Berkeley, after being an undergrad at the LSE.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

International economics and the political economy of development