Paul Romer

Paul Romer is an economist, policy entrepreneur, and founder of the Urbanization Program at New York University Stern School of Business. This urbanization project conducted applied research on how policy makers in developing countries can utilize the rapid growth of cities to create economic opportunities and carry out systematic social reforms. Professor Romer is currently a professor at New York University and the director of the Marlon Institute of Urban Management at New York University. The Mullen Institute works with citizen innovators to improve urban management and deepen basic understanding of cities. Prior to his tenure at New York University, Professor Romer taught at Stanford Business School. There, Professor Romer conducted an entrepreneurship that had little connection to his major. He founded an educational technology company called Aplia, dedicated to promoting students' learning and increasing their classroom participation. So far, students have submitted over 1 billion answers to homework questions on Aplia's website. Prior to working at Stanford University, Professor Romer taught in the economics departments of the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Chicago, and the University of Rochester. Currently, he also serves as a researcher at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. At the same time, he is a non local scholar at the Global Development Center in Washington D.C. and the Macdonald Laurier Institute in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. In 2002, Professor Romer was awarded the Recktenwald Award in recognition of his intellectual role in maintaining economic growth. Professor Romer is a board member of the Carnegie Foundation for Promoting Teaching. He is also a member of the board of directors of Community Solutions, a national non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening community building and providing homes for homeless people. Professor Romer obtained a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the University of Chicago. After pursuing graduate degrees at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Queen's University, he obtained a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago.