John Gibson

Background

John Gibson is a Visiting Fellow at CGD and a Professor of Economics at the Waikato Management School, New Zealand. Prior to this, Gibson was Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of Canterbury, and also taught at the Center for Development Economics at Williams College. He received his Ph. D. from the Food Research Institute of Stanford University. His teaching and research are in microeconometrics, the design and analysis of household survey data, migration, and economic development, especially in China and other Asian and Pacific economies. At CGD he is carrying out research on the effects of skilled migration on sending countries.