Marta Bengoa
Non-Resident fellow
Marta BENGOA
Dr. Bengoa is a Non-Resident Fellow at ORF America. She is also a Full Professor of Economics at the City University of New York (CUNY-CCNY) and an External Full Professor at the South African Research Chair of Economic and Industrial Development at the University of Johannesburg (South Africa). She is also the Chair of the Graduate Program in Economics and Business at the Colin Powell School of the City University of New York. Currently, she serves as a liaison for the Committee of the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) for the American Economic Association (AEA) and as a mentor in the Diversity & Mentoring Program of the AEA.
She also works as an Associated Fellow at the CIRANO data lab in Montreal (Canada), as a Senior Fellow at the Open Political Economy Network in London (UK), as an External Research Fellow at the Institute of International Economics in the University Jaume I (Spain) and member of the Chair “Finanzas Sostenibles” at the Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca (UPSA) & MAPFRE (Spain). MAPFRE (Spain). She is the former President of the International Trade and Finance Association in the U.S. She is also the former Chair of the Economics Department at the Colin Powell Center (now CPS School). She has been a visiting scholar and a visiting professor at the Department of Economics at Columbia University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of The Republic in Uruguay, the University of Costa Rica, the University Federico Santa María (Chile), and Universidad of Azuay (Ecuador), among others.
Dr. Bengoa is an economist with wide-ranging research interests that span foreign direct investment, productivity growth and its link to R&D and innovation, trade, the computation of home bias in trade, and migration. Dr. Bengoa has published widely on the interaction between openness and growth, productivity, and development. She has been quoted by the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, POLITICO, and other media outlets. She is a regular expert and commentator for UNIVISION TV on the global and macroeconomic economic issues that affect the Spanish-speaking community in the U.S.
In terms of research, she is currently focusing on the drivers of firm innovation and their effect on firm and employment outcomes in South Africa, the impact of fourth industrial revolution technologies on skills and occupational outcomes in South Africa, the impact of bilateral investment agreements across Latin American countries and its effects on foreign direct investment (FDI), and the trade diversion effects of non-tariff measures for Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) countries. In parallel, she is studying the effects of hukou policy on the health outcomes of rural-to-urban migrants in China. She is doing empirical research to analyze the effect of local and home country institutions (formal and informal) on the decision of immigrants to become entrepreneurs in the US.
Dr. Bengoa is both Spaniard and American and lives between New York City, and Santander (Spain). She tutors, pro bono, immigrants who lack the resources to go to school in math and economics. She is a mentor to many women on a diverse array of issues. She is also a yogi and art lover who supports young local artists.
