Summary
Sean Higgins is an Associate Professor of Finance at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management with nine years of academic and policy-focused experience bridging rigorous economic research and real-world development practice. He earned a Ph.D. in Economics from Tulane and completed postdoctoral work at UC Berkeley, then translated that training into consulting roles at the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank on macroeconomics, poverty reduction, and gender. His research and teaching blend empirical microeconometrics with policy evaluation, informed by on-the-ground work in Latin America as a Fulbright-García Robles Scholar and visiting researcher. Known for straddling academia and global institutions, he brings a pragmatic orientation to questions of inequality, fiscal policy, and development economics that yields actionable insights for both scholars and policymakers.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Haas School of Business, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Economics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Economics at Tulane University
Spanish, French, Portuguese