Board Member
Professor Leonard Wantchekon is the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University, as well as Professor of Politics and International Affairs. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a member of the Executive Committee of the International Economic Association, and has served as Secretary of the American Political Science Association and on the Executive Committee of the Afrobarometer Network. Wantchekon is also the Founder and President of the African School of Economics, which opened in Benin in 2014 (and has since added a second campus in Cote d’Ivoire), and the Founder and President of the Pan-African Scientific Research Council. He previously served as professor at New York University and at Yale University, and holds a PhD in Economics from Northwestern University.
In the next installment of the blog series “When the River Crosses the City,” we discuss the Bisagno River and its impact on the Italian city of Genova.
Get an inside look at Digital Economic Zones and more as we sit down with Joseph McKinney, CEO of the Catawba Digital Economic Zone (DEZ), a new SEZ established by the Catawba nation based in the Carolinas.
Here’s a quick look back at what’s been happening at the Charter Cities Institute this summer and what to look out for in the near future.
The Charter Cities Institute (CCI) today announced that by unanimous agreement among its Board of Directors, Kurtis Lockhart, CCI’s Head of Research has been named as the organization’s second-ever Executive Director, effective immediately.
In today’s show, we get to delve deep into Stefan Dercon’s elite bargain idea, the impact of effective altruism, the need for self-awareness within governments, and how far lessons from certain examples can be applied to other states.
CCI Researcher Jeff Mason writes about a more viable model for the transformation of military bases into charter cities that exists in the Philippines: the Subic Bay Special Economic and Freeport Zone.
The Charter Cities Institute is a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to empowering new cities with better governance to lift tens of millions of people out of poverty.
