Robert Koopman Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer Politics, Governance & Economics

Degrees: PhD, Economics, Boston College, 1985
BS, Economics, University of Southern Maine, 1979
Bio: Currently Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer
WTO Chief Economist and Director, Economic Research and Statistics Division. November 2014-July 2022
Chief Operating Officer and Director, Office of Operations, USITC. July 2011 - October 2014
Chief Economist and Director, Office of Economics, USITC. July 1999 - July 2011
Deputy Administrator, Economic and Community Systems at CSREES (now NIFA), USDA. October 1996 - July 1999
Deputy Director for Research and Analysis, Chief of the Europe, Africa, and Middle East Branch, Section Head, Central and East European Section, Research Economist Agricultural Trade Policy Branch, and Research Economist in the USSR Branch, Economic Research Service, USDA. September 1985- September 1996.

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