Ann Harrison

Professor of Management, The Wharton School

Ann E. Harrison’s research examines the areas of emerging markets, multinational firms, international trade, productivity, and labor markets. Her book, Globalization and Poverty, was published by the University of Chicago Press. She has lectured widely at most major U.S. universities, and in India, China, Latin America, Europe, the Philippines, and North Africa. Her latest research analyzes the anti-sweatshop movement, the impact of offshoring on wages and employment, the role of industrial policy in economic development, and the determinants of productivity growth in China and India.

Before joining the Wharton School, Harrison spent two years in Washington, D.C. as the director of development policy at the World Bank. Prior to that, she served as the head of the research team at the World Bank on international trade and investment. Between 2001 and 2011, she was professor of agricultural and resource economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Harrison received her Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University and graduated with highest distinction in economics and history from the University of California, Berkeley.