People

Erick Rengifo
Professor of Economics
Director, Center for International Policy Studies (CIPS)
Ph.D., Universite Catholique de Louvain (Belgium)
Areas of Interest: Financial Economics, Microfinance, and Econometrics
Rose Hill, Dealy E-513
[email protected]
718-817-4061

Board Members

Susan Block-Lieb
Professor of Law
Area of Interest: Bankruptcy, Consumer Protection, International Organizations
University of Michigan Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1982
University of Michigan, B.A., with honors, 1979
[email protected]
202-531-7999

Edmon Blount
Executive Director: Center for the Study of Financial Market Evolution
Areas of Interest: Macroprudential regulation, econometrics, international banking and cross-border finance.
Advanced Professional Certificate (post-MBA), NYU
[email protected]
212-636-6782

John Entelis
Professor of Political Science
Director of Middle East Studies
Ph.D., Department of Politics, New York University
Area of Interest: political science, international relations, Middle Eastern affairs, and North African studies
Rose Hill, Faber Hall Rm 678
[email protected]
718-817-3953

Norma Fuentes
Director of Migration, Gender and Development Research Unit
Professor at CUNY
Ph.D., Columbia University

Emily Hibbets
Student

Melissa Labonte
Associate Professor of Political Science, Associate Dean GSAS 
Ph.D., Brown University
Areas of Interest: international nongovernmental organizations, international organizations and international law, multilateral peace operations, post-conflict peacebuilding, conflict resolution, human rights, humanitarian crises, and the politics of humanitarian intervention

Darryl McLeod
Associate Professor of Economics
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Areas of Interest: Development Economics
Rose Hill, Dealy E-527
[email protected]
718-817-4063

Utteeyo Dasgupta
Assistant Professor of Economics at Wagner College
Ph.D., in Economics, University of Arizona, Tucson
Areas of Interest: Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Applied Game Theory, Industrial Organization, Microeconomic Theory, Development Economics
[email protected]
718-390-3265

Sophie Mitra
Managing Director, Social Justice and Policy Research Unit (CIPS)
Professor of Economics
Ph.D., Universite Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne (France)
Areas of Interest: Applied Microeconomics, Development
Rose Hill, Dealy E-524
[email protected]
718-817-5337

Kurt Jetta
Director of Economics of Consumer Marketing
CEO TABS group
Ph.D. Fordham University
[email protected]
561-270-7902

Alfredo Cuecuecha Mendoza
President of El Colegio de Tlaxcala, AC,
Ph.D., Boston University
Area of Interest: Economic Development, Labor Economics and Economics of Migration

Diego Oyharbide
M.S., Economics and International Political Economy and Development (IPED), Fordham University

Diego Rumiany
M.A., International Political Economy and Development (IPED)
His paper, "The Logic of Reducing the Global Digital Divide in Sub-Saharan Africa," was chosen for publication by the Development Gateway Foundation.
Staff member of the United Nations and a citizen of Argentina.

Father Patrick Ryan
Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society Fordham University

Marciana Popescu
Associate Professor 914-367-3437
[email protected]
BSW, M.A., University of Bucharest; MSW, Tulane University; Ph.D., University of Bucherest
Social policy, Macropractice, Family violence, Program evaluation/evaluation research

Henry Schwalbenberg
Associate Professor of Economics
Director, International Political Economy and Development (IPED)
Ph.D., Columbia University
Areas of Interest: International Economic Policy, Development
Rose Hill, Dealy E-519
[email protected]
718-817-4059

Pinar Zubaroglu
Associate Researcher
Directing the Job Training Connection project (creating youth employment in Haiti)