Maurice Kugler, Background

Maurice Kugler is CIGI chair in international public policy in the department of economics at Wilfrid Laurier University. His work has looked at international trade, foreign direct investment, skilled migration and productivity growth. Maurice’s recent research deals with export dynamics, reallocation after market-oriented reforms and the link of international capital flows with labour migration. More generally, he explores how global market integration, and other reforms, affects the prospects of economic growth and convergence for the poor in nations and regions.

Since 2006, Maurice has held a research fellowship at the Growth Lab of the Center for International Development at Harvard University. Maurice has taught at Harvard, Los Andes, Southampton and Stanford Universities. He has been awarded research grants by the National Science Foundation and the Tinker Foundation in the United States, as well as the Department for International Development and the Economic and Social Research Council in the United Kingdom. He has been adviser to the Central Bank of Colombia, the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank, and earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California Berkeley, after being an undergrad at the London School of Economics. Maurice is fluent in English, French and Spanish.