Jack Rossbach is an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Qatar. Jack earned his Doctorate in Economics from the University of Minnesota, where he also received undergraduate degrees in Economics, Mathematics, and Statistics. Prior to joining Georgetown, he was a faculty member at the University at Albany, SUNY. His research focuses on international trade and economic growth, with a particular interest in how linkages across firms and countries shape the global economy. Jack is also interested in evaluating and improving the accuracy of quantitative models, and has published papers in the Journal of International Economics and the Annual Review of Economics and has presented his research at numerous conferences in countries around the world. Jack’s teaching includes courses on Poverty, Growth, & Inequality and Quantitative Trade Models, and his teaching focuses on blending economic theory with modern empirical methods and a heavy focus on working with data.