Ricardo Hausmann is Director of the Growth Lab at
Harvard's Center for International Development and the Rafik Hariri
Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy at Harvard
Kennedy School. Previously, he served as the Director of the Center for
International Development (2005-2019). He also teaches a capstone course
on the MPAID program. Previously, he served as the first Chief
Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank
(1994-2000), where he created the Research Department. He has served as
Minister of Planning of Venezuela (1992-1993) and as a member of the
Board of the Central Bank of Venezuela. He also served as Chair of the IMF-World Bank Development Committee. He was Professor of Economics at the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administracion (IESA)
(1985-1991) in Caracas, where he founded the Center for Public Policy.
His research interests include issues of growth, macroeconomic
stability, international finance, and the social dimensions of
development.
Affiliations
Professor of the Practice of Economic Development & Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School
Director, Center for International Development, Harvard University