Ann E. Harrison is a Professor of Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She has also taught at the MBA, PhD, and undergraduate levels at various other universities, including Columbia Business School, the University of California, Berkeley, the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and the University of Paris.Before joining the Wharton School, Professor Harrison spent two years in Washington D.C. as the Director of Development Policy at the World Bank. Prior to that, she served as the head of the research team at the World Bank on international trade and investment. Between 2001 and 2011, she was Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Harrison received her PhD in Economics from Princeton University and graduated with highest distinction in Economics and History from the University of California, Berkeley.
Professor Harrison is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an affiliate of the International Growth Centre in London. She is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic Literature, the Journal of Asian Economics and the World Bank Research Observer, and on various other advisory committees at the World Bank, the United Nations, and elsewhere. Her research is in the areas of emerging markets, multinational firms, international trade, productivity, and labor markets. She has lectured widely, including at most major US universities and in India, China, Latin America, Europe, the Philippines, and North Africa. Her latest research analyzes the anti-sweatshop movement, the impact of offshoring on wages and employment, the role of industrial policy in economic development, and the determinants of productivity growth in India, China, and Africa.