Elliott School Professors Martha Finnemore and Michael Barnett were listed as the No. 1 and No. 11 scholars, respectively, who produced the most interesting scholarship in the past five years in the 2011 Teaching, Research and International Policy (TRIP) survey 
, which included responses from 1,582 international relations faculty members.
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Rémi Jedwab
Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs
Office: Monroe Hall, 2115 G Street, N.W.
Phone: (202) 994-9011
E-mail: jedwab@gwu.edu
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Education:
Ph.D., Paris School of Economics-EHESS
Expertise:
Development Economics, Regional and Urban Economics, Political Economy, Sub-Saharan Africa
Background:
Rémi Jedwab is an assistant professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Elliott School and the Department of Economics of George Washington University beginning in 2012. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Paris School of Economics-EHESS and B.A. in economics from University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He was also a visiting Ph.D. student at the London School of Economics for three years.
Professor Jedwab's main field of research is development economics, though his work also has strong urban economics and political economy themes. Some of the issues he has studied include urbanization and structural transformation, the economic effects of transportation infrastructure, and agricultural and economic development in Africa. He teaches graduate courses in development economics.
Finally, he grew up in an amazingly beautiful city, Paris. He has traveled quite a lot, whether in Africa or Asia, and he has lived several months in Madagascar, the Philippines, Thailand, Azerbaijan and India.
Courses Taught:
ECON 6250 Survey of Economic Development
ECON 8351 Development Economics I