Andrei Levchenko is the John W. Sweetland Professor of International Economics at the University of Michigan, Coeditor of the American Economic Review, and Director of the International Trade and Macroeconomics program of the Central Bank Research Association. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Previously, he was an Economist at the International Monetary Fund (2004–2009), Editor-in-Chief of the IMF Economic Review (2021–2025), and has held visiting positions at the Universities of Chicago, Lausanne, and Zurich. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 2004, and holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Basel. Prof. Levchenko’s research has been funded by several agencies including the US National Science Foundation and the UK Department for International Development, and has appeared in a variety of journals including American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.