Remi Jedwab

Rémi Jedwab is a professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Elliott School and the Department of Economics of George Washington University, the Director of the Institute for International Economic Policy, the Director of the ESIA Initiative on Climate Change and Sustainable Cities, and the co-Director of the Local Sustainable Governance Lab at George Washington University, and an Affiliated Scholar of the Marron Institute of Urban Management at New York University. Professor Jedwab's main fields of research are urban, regional and real estate economics, development and growth, environmental economics, and applied micro. Some of the issues he has studied include the economics of cities, urbanization and structural transformation, the economic determinants and effects of vertical urban development, construction and climate change, population growth, sustainable development, the determinants and effects of transportation infrastructure, and the roles of demography, institutions, history, human capital and technology in development and growth. He is the co-founder and co-organizer of the World Bank-GWU-IGC Urbanization and Poverty Reduction Conference, the World BankGWU-UVA Conference on The Economics of Sustainable Development, the World Bank-GWU Livable and Sustainable Cities workshop series, and the Washington Area Development Economics Symposium. He is also a co-editor of the World Bank Economic Review, an associate editor at the Journal of Urban Economics and Regional Science and Urban Economics, and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board at World Development.