Dr. Andrés Rodríguez Clare

Biography

Andrés Rodríguez-Clare is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and the director of the Trade Research Programme at the International Growth Centre. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1993 and served as an associate professor of Business Economics at the University of Chicago before moving to Costa Rica, where he was the Chairman of the Council of Presidential Advisors from 1998 to 2002. In 2002, he was a visiting professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and later at M.I.T. Department of Economics in 2005. He worked as a Senior Research Economist in the Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank from 2002 to 2005, and in 2005, he became a professor of economics at Pennsylvania State University, remaining there until 2011, when he joined the faculty at Berkeley.

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