EGC Affiliate Spotlight: Sam Kortum
Winner of the Frisch Medal and the Onassis Prize for International Trade, Kortum studies technology, international trade – and recently, carbon policy.
Professor Samuel Kortum on trade research, climate policy, and his path as an economist
by Sarah Guan
February 2, 2021
Sam Kortum at the Trade and Development conference, hosted by EGC on February 28, 2020. Photo Credit: Julia Luckett Photography
For Sam Kortum, the James Burrow Moffett Professor of Economics at Yale, becoming an EGC affiliate in 2020 meant coming full circle. As a Yale PhD student in the late 80s, Kortum worked with Professor Robert E. Evenson, development economist and director of EGC from 1997 to 2000 and of the IDE program from 1977 to 2003.