Richard Baldwin (economist)

Richard E. Baldwin is a professor of international economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. He is also Director of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and Editor-in-Chief of Vox (VoxEU.org) which he founded in June 2007. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was twice elected as a Member of the Council of the European Economic Association.

He has published in the areas of international trade, regionalism, WTO, European integration, economic geography, political economy and growth.

He wrote his PhD at MIT under the guidance of Paul Krugman, with whom he has co-authored a half dozen articles. He received honorary doctorates from the Turku School of Economics (Finland), University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) and Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP).

In 1990–1991 he followed trade matters for the President's Council of Economic Advisors in the Bush White House. He has consulted for many governments and international organisations including the EU, the OECD, the World Bank, EFTA, USAID. He worked as an Associate Economic Affairs Officer for UNCTAD in the early 1980s.