Professor Roland Hodler
Professor of Economics, University of St. Gallen
Roland Hodler is Professor of Economics at the University of St. Gallen and affiliated with the Oxford Centre for Analysis of Resource Rich Economies (OxCarre), the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and CESifo. Before joining the University of St. Gallen, Professor Hodler was a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne, and Professor at the University of Lucerne. He holds a PhD from the University of Bern. Professor Hodler’s main research areas are development economics and political economics. His interests include the economic, political and social effects of ethnic divisions, natural resources and foreign aid. Among others, he has studied how natural resource extraction impacts upon economic growth, financial development, governance, and conflict. In recent research focusing on Nigeria, he has studied the effects of onshore oil spills on health and infant mortality.
Professor Hodler’s research has been published in leading academic journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Development Economics, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; and covered by media outlets such as BBC, the Economist, the Guardian, Le Monde, and Washington Post.
