Speaker Bio

Howard J. Shatz is a senior economist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He specializes in international economics, including international development, and economics and national security.

His RAND research has included issues related to Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction; international economic competition and the U.S. role in the global economic order; great power competition in the Middle East; the Chinese and Russian economies; the finances and management of the Islamic State and its predecessors; and socio-economic policy projects in China, Israel, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Mongolia, and Saudi Arabia. From 2007 to 2008, he was on leave from RAND, serving as a senior economist at the U.S. President’s Council of Economic Advisers.

He has written academic journal articles, book chapters, and policy reports on trade and labor markets, the geography of international investment, exchange rates and economic performance, services trade, and trade barriers and low-income countries. He holds a Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University.