Faculty
Ivan Allen College has more than 140 permanent faculty members. All have PhDs and many are internationally recognized as leaders in their fields. All permanent faculty teach undergraduate courses.
(Listings for temporary faculty and academic professionals are maintained on the individual school websites which may be accessed from the home page)
Economics Faculty
Willie J. Belton
Associate Professor
Dr. Belton is an Associate Professor in the School of Economics where he served as Associate Chairman 2000 to 2006. Professor Belton’s initial training and research focus was on issues of monetary policy and how policy design and implementation impacts the cyclical behavior of the macro-economy. (continues)
Tibor Besedes
Assistant Professor and Interim Director of Undergraduate Programs
Dr. Tibor Besedes is an Assistant Professor in the School of Economics. He received his BSc in Economics from Texas Christian University, his MA and PhD in Economics from Rutgers University. Prior to coming to Georgia Tech he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Louisiana State University. (continues)
Thomas D. Boston
Professor
Thomas “Danny” Boston is a Professor in the School of Economics at Georgia Tech and a regular economics contributor to CNN. He received the Ph.D. Degree in Economics from Cornell University. His areas of specialization include the following: Business and Firm Administration, Entrepreneurship, Startups and Growth; (continues)
Shatakshee Dhongde
Assistant Professor
Shatakshee Dhongde is Assistant Professor in the School of Economics. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside in 2005 and was an Assistant Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, NY. Her research analyzes globalization and its impact on economic growth, poverty, inequality, and segregation. (continues)
Vivek Ghosal
Professor and Director of Masters Program
Dr. Ghosal is Professor at the School of Economics at Georgia Institute of Technology. (continues)
Erik Johnson
Assistant Professor
Erik Johnson is Assistant Professor in the School of Economics. He received his BA in mathematics and economics from St. Olaf College and his PhD in public policy and economics from the University of Michigan. His teaching and research interests include environmental and energy economics, public economics, and applied microeconometrics. (continues)
Byung-Cheol Kim
Assistant Professor
I obtained Ph.D in economics from Michigan State University after four years (2003-2007) of study under Professor Jay Pil Choi's advice. Then, I served one year as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Economics and an Adjunct Professor in the College of Law, both at MSU. In 2008, I moved to my current position. (continues)
Mikhail M. Klimenko
Associate Professor
Dr. Mikhail Klimenko received his PhD in Business from Stanford University. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Associate Professor of Economics in the School of Economics in 2004. He served as Director of Graduate Studies in Tech's School of Economics from 2005-2011. A specialist in international trade theory and policy and telecommunications economics, he has authored multiple papers, book chapters, and presented numerous conference papers. (continues)
Levent Kutlu
Assistant Professor
Levent Kutlu is assistant professor in the School of Economics. He received his BSc in mathematics from Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey), his MSc in economics from Istanbul Bilgi University (Istanbul, Turkey), and MStat in statistics and PhD in economics from Rice University. His teaching and research interests include applied econometrics, industrial organization, and social choice theory. (continues)
Haizheng Li
Professor
Dr. Haizheng Li received his PhD in economics from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty in the School of Economics in 1997, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2004 and Professor in 2010. A specialist in applied econometrics, labor economics, industry studies and Chinese economy, he has authored numerous journal articles, book chapters, and technical reports. (continues)
Patrick S. McCarthy
Professor
Dr. Patrick McCarthy received his PhD in Economics from Claremont Graduate University. He joined Georgia Tech in 2000 as Professor and Chair of the School of Economics, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, serving as Chair until 2011. Professor McCarthy is also Director of the Center for Paper Business and Industry Studies, one of twenty-five Industry Centers funded by the Sloan Foundation, and is on the Advisory Board of the Sloan Funded Trucking Industry Program at Georgia Tech. (continues)
Juan Moreno-Cruz
Assistant Professor
Juan Moreno-Cruz is an Assistant Professor in the School of Economics. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Calgary and a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of Los Andes, in Bogota, Colombia. Moreno-Cruz’s research focuses on the interaction of climate change, technological change and economic growth. (continues)
Usha C. Nair-Reichert
Associate Professor and Interim Chair
Dr. Usha C. Nair-Reichert holds a PhD in Economics from Purdue University. She teaches courses in international economics and operations of multinational enterprises in the School of Economics. Her research interests are in the areas of trade policy, intellectual property rights, multinational investments, monetary policy and economic development. (continues)
Christine P. Ries
Professor
Dr. Christine P. Ries came to Georgia Tech as Professor and Chair of the School of Economics in 1997. She has previously taught at The Harvard Business School, The Fuqua School of Business at Duke, the Peter Drucker Graduate Management Center at Claremont, and at Stanford University. She is a specialist in International Finance, Markets and Organizations, and Economics of the Firm in the School of Economics. (continues)
Olga Shemyakina
Assistant Professor
Dr. Olga Shemyakina is an Assistant Professor in the School of Economics. She received her BA in Accounting from the Kazakh State Academy of Management, her MA in Economics from Kazakhstan Institute of Management and the University of Massachusetts, and her PhD in Economics from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. (continues)
Emilson Caputo Silva
Professor and Director of Ph.D. Program
Dr. Emilson Caputo Silva obtained his PhD degree in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993. Prior to joining the School of Economics at Georgia Tech, he worked at the Department of Economics at University of Oregon and at the Department of Economics at Tulane University. (continues)
Ruth O. Uwaifo
Assistant Professor
Dr Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere joined the School of Economics, Georgia Institute of Technology in 2006 as an Assistant Professor. She is also a research fellow at the Institute for the study of Labor (IZA) Bonn Germany. Dr Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests fall into four main areas: development economics, labor economics education economics and population economics (continues)
Emeritus Faculty
Kong Chu
Professor Emeritus
Marilu McCarty
Professor Emeritus
Dr. McCarty holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Georgia State University. Her teaching interests are principles of economics, economic policy, environmental and natural resource economics, monetary theory and policy, and international economics. Her current research interests include energy policy in the Carter Administration, U.S. (continues)
William A. Schaffer
Professor Emeritus
Dr. Schaffer, professor emeritus of Economics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Duke University. He has directed major inter-industry studies for the states of Hawaii and Georgia and the province of Nova Scotia. With special interests in regional economics, he has contributed to the literature on constructing regional inter-industry models, on economic impact analysis and input-output applications, and on the teaching and theory of regional science. (continues)
Visiting Faculty
Johnson Kakeu
Visiting Assistant Professor
Dr Kakeu is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Economics at Georgia Tech. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from University of Montreal (Canada), a Master’s in Statistics and Economics, and a Master’s in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics. His research interests include Environment and Natural Resources, Sustainability and Conservation, Natural Capital Valuation, Economic Growth, Applied Econometrics, and Applied Game theory. (continues)
Academic Professional
Derek Tittle
Academic Professional
Dr. Tittle was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. He attended Georgia Tech for his undergraduate degree, obtaining a B.S. in International Affairs in 1993. During that time, he was a member of The Georgia Army National Guard’s elite, airborne Long Range Surveillance Unit. He reached the final position of corporal as a senior scout. (continues)
Adjunct Faculty
Parks A. Dodd Jr.
Associate Professor (Adjunct)
Dr. Dodd is an economist, speaker, and consultant focused on industrial markets, in particular commodity product and other basic materials industries. In addition to managing his own businesses, he is the senior aluminum consultant in North America for CRU International, a well-known metals industry forecasting and market research firm based in London. (continues)
Brian Hunt
Instructor (Adjunct)
Brian Allen Hunt is a visiting instructor from the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Department of Economics at Georgia State University where he teaches microeconomic for managers, international trade and global finance, intermediate macroeconomics, and industrial organization. Mr. Hunt received his BA (1995) in International Studies and Economics from the University of South Carolina and his MA (2000) in Global Trade, Finance, and Economic Integration from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado. (continues)
Kaushik Mukhopadhaya
Assistant Professor (Adjunct)
Dr. Mukhopadhaya is an adjunct faculty member.
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