Christopher M. Meissner is professor of economics at the University of California, Davis. His research focuses on the economic history of the international economy particularly between 1870 and 1913. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in the Development of the American Economy (DAE) program. Previous to joining the faculty at Davis, Meissner was an associate professor at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge. In Cambridge he was the Director of Studies in Economics and a Fellow of King's College. He has held visiting scholar positions at the International Monetary Fund, Harvard, INSEAD, the Paris School of Economics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, New York University (Shanghai), and Bayreuth University. In 2006 he was a Houblon Norman fellow at the Bank of England. In the autumn of 2015 he was the Hans Christian Andersen visiting Professor at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense. In 2026-27 he will be the Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at the University of Cambridge.
Meissner holds a PhD in Economics from UC Berkeley and an AB in economics from Washington University in St. Louis.Â
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