Christopher Woodruff
Economist
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- Bachelors Economics University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Christopher Woodruff is an American economist and Professor of Development Economics at Oxford University. Biography Christopher Woodruff earned a B.A. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1980, followed by a M.A. in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1984. In parallel, from 1981 to early 1987, Woodruff worked as economist and manager of financial planning of the Central Power and Light Company in Corpus Christi, Texas. In 1994, he earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Texas at Austin with a thesis on specific investments and industry location in Mexico under Dale O. Stahl, after which he took up a position as assistant professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies of the University of California at San Diego, where he was promoted to associate professor and finally to full professor in 2002 and 2009, respectively. In 2009, Woodruff moved to the University of Warwick, before becoming a Professor of Developing Economics at the University of Oxford in 2016. Moreover, Woodruff has been a co-director of the International Growth Centre's Programme on Firm Capabilities since 2009 and has acted as scientific coordinator of the DFID-CEPR Research Programme on Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries. Additionally, Woodruff is affiliated with the NBER, Centre for Competitive Advantage and the Global Economy , Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development , CEPR, and IZA. In terms of professional service, Woodruff has performed editorial duties for the Journal of Development Economics, World Bank Economic Review, Journal of African Economies, the B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, and the Journal of Comparative Economics.
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