Bio
Abdoulaye Ndiaye is a professor of economics at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. He is also a fellow of the Royal Economic Society, Theme Leader for The Role of the Public Sector at the Structural Change and Economic Growth consortium, a research affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, a CESifo research network affiliate, and a member of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group.
Abdoulaye’s research lies at the intersection of macroeconomics, public economics, development, and political economy. He has published in leading outlets including the Journal of Monetary Economics and the Journal of Political Economy: Macroeconomics, with forthcoming work in American Economic Review: Insights and the Oxford Review of Economic Policy. His recent and ongoing research spans topics such as unemployment insurance in high-informality economies, optimal retirement and tax design, property taxation and housing allocation, international boycotts, tax legitimacy, and long-run development and is under revision for prestigious journals such as the Quarterly Jounal of Economics, the American Economic Review, the Journal of International Economics, and Management Science.
Alongside his academic research, Ndiaye has been active in impactful policy work. He previously served as Senior Advisor to the Minister of the Economy, Planning and Cooperation of Senegal and was a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He is a Non-Resident fellow at the Finance for Development and the Africa Urban Lab, and a Policy Advisor at the Economic Policy Network at the Blavatnik School of Governance at Oxford.
Abdoulaye’s research and public engagement have earned broad recognition. He was awarded the inaugural NextGen Economist Prize, which recognizes the best African economist under the age of 40 and the 2026 Yuki Arai Research Prize. He has been recognized in the list of 26 notable Africans of 2026 by the Africa Report. He has also received several research grants and has held visiting positions at the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago, Duke University, the Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute at the Minneapolis Fed, the Cowles Foundation at Yale, LMU Munich, Princeton University, Harvard University, and other institutions.
Ndiaye received his PhD in Economics from Northwestern University. He also holds a Diplôme d’Ingénieur in Mathematics from École Polytechnique in Paris, preceded by Classes Préparatoires in Maths-Physics MP* at Lycée Louis-le-Grand.