About

Renee Bowen is an Economist and Dean's Professor of International Business and Global Affairs at Georgetown University. She is jointly appointed in the McDonough School of  Business and the Walsh School of Foreign Service. She has held previous academic positions at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, UC San Diego’s Department of Economics and School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS). In 2019 she founded  the Center for Commerce and Diplomacy at UC San Diego, and served as its Director until 2023. She is an Economic Theory Fellow at the Society for the Advances in Economic Theory, a Council Member of the Game Theory Society, has published in top economics journals including the American Economic Review, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and is on the editorial boards of the American Economic Review: Insights, Journal of Economic Literature and the Review of International Organizations. Her professional memberships include the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and a Board member of the Pacific Council on International Relations. She has held other positions at the Hoover Institution, the World Bank, J.P. Morgan Securities, the Inter-American Development Bank, and is currently a member of the California Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors, where she chaired the Workforce Development Subcommittee. She holds a PhD in Economics from Georgetown University, and a BSc in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her recent research examines the design of global multilateral institutions and formation of political beliefs in societies.