I am an Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Economics at Middlebury College. I completed my Ph.D. at the University of California-Berkeley in 2016. Click here for my latest CV.

I do research in the fields of International Trade and Development Economics. My research is informed by my extensive fieldwork in developing countries, including Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo, D.R. Congo, Indonesia, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Sudan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. My current research focuses on agricultural trade in sub-Saharan Africa. Click here for a list of my working papers and publications.

I can be contacted at: oporteous@middlebury.edu