Gordon Hanson — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Peter Wertheim Professor of Urban Policy at Harvard Kennedy School since 2020.
Previously served as a professor of international economics at UC San Diego from 2001 to 2019.
Co-editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives since 2015.
Research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Research focuses on the effects of trade with China on the U.S. labor market and consequences of skilled immigration.
Earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992.

Biography

Gordon Hanson is the Peter Wertheim Professor of Urban Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, a position he has held since 2020. Prior to this, he was a professor of international economics at UC San Diego from 2001 to 2019, serving in the School of Global Policy and Strategy and the Department of Economics. He also held the Pacific Economic Cooperation Chair in International Economic Relations at UC San Diego's School of Global Policy and Strategy from 2015 to 2020 and was acting dean.