Richard E. Baldwin is a professor of international economics at the

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, where he has been researching

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and

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since 1991. He was the former President of the

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(CEPR). He is Editor-in-Chief of VoxEU, which he founded in June 2007. He is a research associate at the

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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".

Career

After obtaining a bachelor's degree in economics from the

University of Wisconsin-Madison A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the ...

in 1980, he received a master's degree from the

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in 1981. He completed his PhD at

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in 1986 under the guidance of

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, with whom he has co-authored half a dozen articles. He received honorary doctorates from the

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(

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(

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) and

Pontifical Catholic University of Peru Pontifical Catholic University of Peru ( es, link=no, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, PUCP) is a private university in Lima, Peru. It was founded in 1917 with the support and approval of the Catholic Church, being the oldest private ...

(PUCP). The

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made him a Schumpeter-Haberler Distinguished Fellow in 2021. He was Associate Professor (1989–1991) and Assistant Professor (1986–1989) at

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. In 1990–1991 he followed trade matters for the President's

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in the Bush White House. He worked as an Associate Economic Affairs Officer for

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in the early 1980s. In 1991 he joined the

as 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

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at Oxford University. He has consulted for many governments and international organisations including the EU, the

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, the

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, and

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Research

He has published extensively in the areas of globalisation, international trade, regionalism, WTO, European integration, economic geography, political economy and growth, and is recognised as an expert on the economic drivers and risks of globalisation. 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 51,00
Google Scholar
cites and an H-index of 94. His latest book,
The Globotics Upheaval: Globalization, Robotics and the Future of Work
', addresses the role of digital technology in driving both globalisation and automation of service and professional jobs in advanced economies; it has been translated into six languages. With Charles Wyplosz, he has a leading textbook on th
Economics of European Integration
which is in its 7th Edition with McGraw-Hill.

Selected books

*Baldwin, Richard
Towards an Integrated Europe
CEPR Press, 1994. *Baldwin, Richard E., and J. Francois, ''Dynamic Issues in Commercial Policy Analysis.'' Cambridge University Press, 1999. * Baldwin, R., D. Cohen, A. Sapir, and A. Venables (1999). ''Market Integration, Regionalism and the Global Economy.'' Cambridge University. * Baldwin, R. and Aymo Brunetti (2001). ''Economic Impact of EU Membership on Entrants: New Methods and Issues.'' Springer. * Baldwin, R., Forslid, R., Martin, P., Ottaviano, G., & Robert-Nicoud, F. (2011). ''Economic geography and public policy.'' Princeton University Press. * Baldwin, R. Mashiro Kawai , Ganeshan Wignaraja (2015). ''A World Trade Organization for the 21st Century: The Asian Perspective.'' Edward Elgar Publishing. * Baldwin, R. and C. Wyplosz (2016). ''The Economics of European Integration.'' McGraw-Hill Inc. * Baldwin, R. (2016). ''The Great Convergence'', Harvard University Press. * Baldwin, R. (2019). ''The Globotics Upheaval : Globalization, Robotics, and the Future of Work''. Oxford University Press.

References

External links

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