Robert Pollin
Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Robert Pollin is distinguished university professor of economics and codirector of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is also the founder and president of Pollin Energy and Retrofits (PEAR).
He has worked as a consultant for the US Department of Energy, the International Labour Organization, the UN Industrial Development Organization, and numerous nongovernmental organizations in several countries and in US states and municipalities. Robert has also directed projects on employment creation and poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa for the UN Development Programme. He has worked with many US nongovernmental organizations on creating living wage statutes at both the statewide and municipal levels, on financial regulatory policies, and on the economics of single-payer health care in the United States.
In 2018, Robert coauthored Economic Analysis of Medicare for All. Between 2011 and 2016, he was a member of the scientific advisory committee of the European Commission project on Financialisation, Economy, Society, & Sustainable Development. He was selected by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the “100 Leading Global Thinkers for 2013.”