Economist · Washington, D.C.

Philip A. Luck

Trade, geoeconomics, and economic security.

Director, Economics Program · Scholl Chair in International Business

Center for Strategic and International Studies
Associate Editor, Journal of Geoeconomics

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Background: with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Department of State, where I served as Deputy Chief Economist (2022–2025). Photo: U.S. Department of State.

About

I am an economist studying how international trade and migration reshape firms, supply chains, and labor markets. My work moves between academic research and the practice of economic policy.

I direct the Economics Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where I hold the Scholl Chair in International Business, and I serve as an associate editor at the Journal of Geoeconomics. From 2022 to 2025 I was Deputy Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of State, and Acting Chief Economist from late 2023 into 2024. There I led analysis on sanctions and export-control evasion, supply chain resilience, economic coercion, and the design of migration policy.

Before government I was an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Denver, with earlier appointments at Claremont McKenna College and Drexel University. I hold a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Davis, where Robert Feenstra chaired my dissertation, and a B.S. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I also consult for the International Monetary Fund and serve as vice chair of the OECD Committee on Industry, Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

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