Margaret McMillan is the JRN Professor of International Relations and a Professor of Economics at Tufts University. She has published extensively on international trade, investment, structural change, and economic growth, with a primary focus on developing countries. A key focus of her work is understanding the distributional consequences of international economic integration.
She is a Faculty Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, and the recipient of numerous research grants. In 2005, she was named the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her research has been featured in The New York Times, The Financial Times, and the NBER Digest, and published in leading economics journals.
Professor McMillan has worked extensively in Africa, with field experience in Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Mali, Tanzania, Uganda, and South Africa. Before joining academia, she held positions with the Peace Corps, Lehman Brothers, USAID, UNDP, and the World Bank.
Degrees
Ph.D. in Economics (with distinction), Columbia University
M.P.A., Princeton University
B.S. in Economics and Mathematics (summa cum laude), Boston University
Expertise
Development Economics
International Trade & Investment
Structural Change
Economic Policy in Africa