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Robert Koopman Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer Politics, Governance & Economics

Degrees
PhD, Economics, Boston College, 1985
BS, Economics, University of Southern Maine, 1979

Bio
Currently Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer
November 2014-July 2022 Chief Economist and Director, Economic Research and Statistics Division.
July 2011 - October 2014 Chief Operating Officer and Director, Office of Operations, USITC
July 1999 - July 2011 Chief Economist and Director, Office of Economics, USITC
October 1996 0 July 1999, Deputy Administrator, Economic and Community Systems at CSREES (now NIFA), USDA
Previously (1985-1996), Deputy Director for Research and Analysis, Chief of the Europe, Africa, and Middle East Branch, Section Head, Central and East European Section, Research Economist Agricultural Trade Policy Branch, and Research Economist in the USSR Branch, Economic Research Service, USDA
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Teaching

Spring 2024

  • SIS-808 Pol/Policy Making in Int'l Rel

Fall 2024

  • SIS-754 Topics in Int'l Econ Relations: Economics of National Security