Faculty Leadership
Kaushik Basu is the Einaudi Center's Carl Marks Professor of International Studies and professor of economics at Cornell. Basu is president of the International Economic Association. From 2012 to 2016 he served as senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank.
Robert Hockett's principal teaching, research, and writing interests lie in the fields of organizational, financial, and monetary law and economics in both their positive and normative, as well as their national and transnational, dimensions. His guiding concern in these fields is with the legal
Peter Katzenstein is the Einaudi Center's Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of International Studies in the Department of Government. His research and teaching lie at the intersection of the fields of international relations and comparative politics.
Gunisha Kaur leads the Einaudi Center's Migrations research team, focused on advancing the health of U.S. refugee and immigrant populations.
Rachel Beatty Riedl, our director since 2019, envisions the Einaudi Center as a home for imagining and implementing global
Wendy Wolford is Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global Development in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Her research includes work on international development, land use and distribution, social mobilization, agrarian societies, and critical ethnography.
Stephen Yale-Loehr leads the Einaudi Center's Migrations research team, focused on advancing the health of U.S. refugee and immigrant populations.