Christopher M. Meissner

University of California

Christopher Meissner is associate professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis. His research focuses on the economic history of the international economy particularly between 1870 and 1913. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in the Development of the American Economy (DAE) program. Previous to joining the faculty at Davis, Meissner was at the Faculty of Economics at Cambridge University. In Cambridge he was the Director of Studies in Economics and a Fellow of King's College. He has held visiting scholar positions at the International Monetary Fund and Harvard. He was also a Houblon Norman fellow at the Bank of England. Meissner has consulted for Development Strategies UK, the World Bank and Acadametrics.

Meissner earned his PhD in Economics from Berkeley in 2001 and his AB from Washington University in 1996.